A Dlfcourfe of Foreft-Trees. g 



And firft for thdr Raijf»g, (bme there are 



— — — tiullk hominttm cogentibus^ipfa 



Sfonte fita vettiunt Specifying according to the various 



difpofition of the Air^ and Soil. 



Tars autem pqfito furgttnt defemine. As the Oak^^ Chef-tJUtj 

 Ajb^&c. 



Pullnlat ab rddice aim denfijjima Sylvd. As the i.lme^ AU 

 Jer, &c. and there are others 



Hilradicis egent Growing without any fuch Roots^ 



as Willovps 3 and all the Vimineous kinds , which are raifed of 

 Sets only. 



Hos tiatura modes primut^ dedit — ■ — For thus we fee there are 

 more ways to the PFood then one 5 and Nature has furnifti'd us with 

 Variety of expedients. 



4. But it has been flifly controverted by fbme, whether were 

 better to raife Trees for Timber^ and the like ufes, from their 

 Seeds and firft Rudmentsj or to TranjplafJt fuch as we find have 

 either rais'd themfelves from their Seeds^ or fpring from the Afo' 

 tbcr-roots. Now, that to produce them immediately of the Seed 

 is the better way, thefe 2fe<«/tf»j may feem to evince. 



Firfi^ becaufe they take fooneft. Secondly^ bccaufc they make 

 the ftraighteft, and moft uniform (hoot. Thirdly, becaufe they 

 will neither xgc^xxwq fiaki»g, nor watering (which are two very 

 confidcrable Articles') and lafily, for that all tranf^lantitig (though 

 it much improve Fruit'trees)\xT\\e& they are taken up^he firft 

 Year, or two, is a confidcrable impediment to the growth of Ftf- 

 reji-trees. And, though it be true that divers of thofe which are 

 found in Woods, efpecially Oaklings, young Beeches, Afh, and fbme 

 others, fpring from the (elf-fown mafi and k^ys j yet, being for 

 the moft part dropp'd, and difleminated amongft the half-rotteri 

 fticks, mufty leaves, and perplexities of the mother-roots, they 

 grow fcraggy ^ and being over-dripp'd become fqualid and moi- 

 fie, which checks their growth, and Caufes them to dwindle : 



Crefcentique adimttnt fetus ^ nrMtitqueferentem, 



Nor can their roots expand, and fpread themfelves as they would, 

 do if they were fown, or had been planted in a more open, free, 

 and ingenuous Soil. And that this is fo, I do affirm upon Expe- 

 rience, that an Acorn fown by hand in a Nurfery, or ground where 

 it may be free from thefe encumbrances, ftiall in two or three 

 Years out-ftrip a Plant of twice that age, which has either been 

 fclf-fown in the Woods, or removed 5 unlefs it fortune, by fbme 

 favourable accident, to have been fcatter'd into a more natural, 

 penetrable, and better qualified place : But this difproportion is 

 yet infinitely more remarkable in the Tine, and the Wall-nut-tree, 

 where the Nut fet into the ground (hall certainly overtake a Tree 

 of ten years growth which was planted at the fame inftant 5 and 

 this is a Secret fo generally mif-reprefented by moft of thofe who 

 have treated of thefc Ibrt of Trees, that I could not fuffer it to 



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