THE CULTURE OF PLANTS 



The hornbeam may be ordered as small maple ; 

 they like a dry stiff ground ; they are for copses. 



The hassell and filboards' seed or nuts are used as 

 walnuts ; they delight in dry banks, nor are they 

 stately f orrest-trees. 



The birch is a proper tree for much of our poor, 

 dry and barren grounds. I never raised any of them 

 by seed, in the wood they are so plentie by suckers, 

 &c. Many of these handsome trees I have planted 

 successfully. 



The seed of the bean-trefoil, vulgarly called pease- 

 cod-tree, ripes in October ; and being kept dry all 

 winter, and sown at spring, it comes up that season, 

 and affects a moist ground, but sweet. 



The white poplar, vulgarly called abele, is a quick 

 grower and pleasant tree ; so is aspen ; they are 

 easilie propagated by cuttings, so is the last by 

 suckers : see Chap. I., Part II. They love a good soil, 

 something moist. 



The alder is so propagable,and loves the marshes; 

 and so are the willowes, sallows, and oziers, they all 

 affecting a moist ground, and must be so kept till 

 rooted. 



But I come to greens ; as, 



The pine-tree and pinaster s, whose husks you may 



