A Difcourfe of Forefl-Trecs. 



fpreading o^THUge, caufed through that prodigious havock made 

 by fuch as lately profeffing themfclves againfc Root and Braaeh 

 Ceith^r to be rc-imbaurs'a of their holy purchafes, or £ot Ibme 

 other fordid refpeft ) were tempted , not only to fell and cut 

 down, but utterly to grub up, demolifh, and raze, as it were, 

 all thofe many goodly iVoeds^ and Forejis^ which our morepru- 

 ^ent Aftcejiorslek ftanding, for the Ornament, and ferviceof thdr 

 Country. And this devaftation is now become fo Epidemical, that 

 unlefs fome favourable expedicMt offer it felf, and a way be fe- 

 rioufly, and fpeedily r^fol/d upon,for the future repair of this im- 

 portant ^/c/«5?, one of the mort glorious, and confiderabic Bml- 

 tparks oi this Nation, will, within aihorttime be totally wanting 



to it. 



2. To attend now afpontaneousfupply of thefe decay'd M-itc 

 r/4/j (which is the vulgar, and natural way) would coft(beiide$ 

 the Inclofure) fome entire jiges repofe of the Ploiv : Therefore, 

 the moft expeditious, and obvious Method, would (doubtlefs) be 

 by one of thefe two ways. Sowing, or Planting. But, firft, it will 

 be requifite to agree upon the Speciet i as what Trees are likely to 

 be of greateft Vfe, and the fittcft to be cultivated j and then, to 

 copfider of the Manner how it may beft be effefted. Truly, the 

 Tvajie, and dejiruilian of our Woods, has been fo univerfal, that I 

 conceive nothing left then an univerfal Plantation of all the forts 

 o{ Trees will fupply, and well encounter the defed 5 and there- 

 fore, I (hall Acre adventure tofpeak fomething in general of them 

 all -J though I chiefly infift upon the propagation of fuch only as 

 foemtobe the moft wanting, and ferviceable. 



3. I diftribute them, therefore, into thefe two Clajfes, the Drj^ 

 and the Aquatic-^ both of them applicable to the fame civil ufes 

 of Building, Vtenftls, Ornament and Fuel 5 for to dip into their 

 Medicinal vittues is none of my Province. 



Among the drj/,l efleem the more principal, and folid, to be the 

 Oak^, Elnte, Beech, Ajh, Chefs-nut, Wall-nut, &c. The lefs princi- 

 pal, x!^e Service, Maple, Lime-tree, Horn-beam, ^ick:beam,Bircb^ 

 Hafel,&c. together with all their jaA-tf/^^rWiir^e, and feveral kinds. 



Sed neque qukm piultae^ecies, tiec nomina qtue {int 

 Ejinumeritf, Geor. 



Of the Aquatical, I reckon the Poplars, Ajp, Alder, Willow, Sal- 

 low, Ofier, e^c. Then I (hall add a word or two, for the encou- 

 ragement of the planting of Fruit-trees , together with fome lefs 

 vulgar, but no lefs ufefulTrecs, which, as yet are not endenizon'd 

 amongfV us, or (at leafV) not much taken notice of : And in purfu- 

 ance hereof, I fhall obferve this order ; Firit, to fliew how they 

 are to be Raifed,and then to be Cultivated : By Raiftng,\ underftand 

 the Seed and the Soil ^ by Culture the Planting, Fencing, Waterings 

 DrejfiMg, Pruning and Cutting -, of all which briefly. 



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