Seed. 



A Difconrfe ef Foreft-Trees. 



pafi over without a particular re/ftarkh fo as the noble Poet (with 

 pardon for receding from fo venerable Authority) was certainly 

 miftaken, when he delivers this obfervation as nniverfal^ to the 

 prejudice of Sowirtg, and raifing Woods from their Rudiments : 



Ham qu£ feminibus ja£tk fe fufiulit arbos - 



Tarda venit^ ferkfa&uranepotibm nmbram. 



Geor. /. 2. 



CHAP. I. 



Of the Seed. 



I. T^Utto commence with the Method ^xo^o^'di : Chufe your 

 JTj S^^<^ of that which is perfeftly mature , ponderous and 

 found -^ commonly that which is eafily (haken from the boughs, 

 or gathered about November^ immediately upon its fpontaneous 

 fall, is beft, and does (for the moft part) dired to the proper fea- 

 fon oi interring^ &c. according to the Ivjiitution of Nature her felf : 



Namjpecimenfationif, C^ infitionis origo 

 tpfafuit rerumprimnm naturacreatrix : 

 Arboribus quoniam bacc£^glandefque caducs 

 Tempejiiva dabant puUorum examinafubter^ €^c. 



Lucret./. 5. 

 Yet this is to beconfider'd, that if the place you. few in be too 

 cold for an Autumnal femination, your Acorns, Maji, and other 

 Seeds may be prepared for the Vernal by being barrell'dj or pot- 

 ted up in moift Sand or Earth firatum S. S. during the Winter ; at 

 the expiration whereof you will find them Jr^w^c*^, and being 

 committed to the Earth, as apt to tak^ as if they had been fown 

 with the moft early : by this means, too, they have efcaped the 

 Vermtne (which are prodigious devourers of Winter fowing) and 

 will not be much concern'd with the increafing heat of the Sea- 

 fon^ as fuch as being crude, and unfermented are newly fown in 

 the beginning of the Spring 5 efpecially in hot and loofe 

 Grounds ^ being already in fo fair a progrefs by this artificial pre- 

 paration 5 and which (if the provifion to be made be very great) 

 may be thus manag'd. Chufe a fit piece of Ground, and with 

 boards (if it have not that portion of it felf) defign it three foot 

 high j lay the firft foot in fine Earth, another of Seeds, Acorns, 

 Maji, Keys , Huts , Haves , Holly-berries, ^c. promifcuoufly , or 

 feparate, with (now, and then) a little Mould fprinkled amongft 

 them ; The third foot wholly Earth : Of thefe preparatory Maga- 

 7.ines make as many, and as much larger-ones as will ferve your 

 turn, continuing it from time to time as your Jiore is brought in. 

 The fame may youalfo do by burying your Seeds in Sand, Barrel- 

 ling 



