A Difcmrfe of Foreft-Tree«. 



Uftg them (lis Ifaid)in Tuh, or laid in heaps in (bme deep Cel/ar 

 where the rigour of the Winter may leaft prejudice them ; and I 

 have fiU'd old Hampers ^ Bee-hives^ and Boxes with' them, and 

 found the like advantage, which is to have them ready for your 

 Seminary, as before hath been fliew'd, and exceedingly prevent 

 the feafon. 



2. But to purfuethis to fome farther Advantage , as to what 

 concerns the eledion of your Seed , It is to be confider'd, that 

 there is vaft difference in Trees even of the lame growth and bed^ 

 which I judge to proceed from the variety and quality of the 

 Seed : This, for injiance^ is evidently feen in the heart, procerity 

 and ftature of T/w/'cr ^ and therefore chufenot your Seeds sXvjzys 

 from the moft Fruitful-trees, which are commonly the moft y^ged^ 

 and decayed 5 but from fuch as are found mo(tfolid and fair : 

 Nor, for this reafon, covet the largeft Acorns, ^c. (butasH«J^ 

 band-men do their Wheat) the moft weighty , clean and bright : 

 This Obfervation we deduce from Fruit-trees, which we leldom 

 find to bear lb kindly, and plentifully, fiom a found ([ock^ Jmooth 

 Rind, znd firm Wood, as from a rough, lax, zndnntovpardTreQ^ 

 which is rather prone to fpend it felf in Fruit, the ultimate effort, 

 and final endeavour of its j'moft delicate Sap, then in Iblid and 

 clokfuhjiance to encreafe the Timber. And this fhall fuflice, 

 though fbme haply might here recommend to us a more accurate 

 Microfcopical examen, to interpret their moft fecret Schematifmes^ 

 which were an over nicity for thefe great Plantations. 



9. As concerning the medicating, and infuccation of Seeds, or 

 enforcing the Earth by rich and generous Compojis, d^c for Trees 

 of thefe kinds, lam no great favourer of it; not only, becaufe 

 the charge would much dilcouragethe Workj, but for that we find 

 it unnecefTary , and for moft of our t'oreji-trees, noxious 5 fince 

 even where the Ground is too fertile, they thrive not fb well 5 and 

 if a Mould be not proper for one fort it may be fit for another t 

 Yet I would not (by this) hinder any from the trial, what advance 

 fuch Experiments will produce : In the mean time, for the fimple 

 Imbibition o( (bme Seeds and Kernels, when they prove extraor- 

 dinary dry, and as the Seafon may fall out, it might iiot be amifs 

 to macerate them in Milk, , or Water only, a little impregnated with 

 Covp-dung, d^c. during the fpace of twenty four hours, to give 

 them ajpirit to fprout, and chet thefboner 5 efpecially, if you have 

 been retarded in your forcing without our former preparation. 



4. Being thus provided with Seeds of all kinds, I would ad- 

 yife to raife Woods by fowing them apart, in feveral places deftin'd 

 for their growth, where the yI/(7«/^ being prepar'd(as I fhall fbew 

 hereafter) and lb qualified (if eleftion may be made) as beft to 

 fuitwith the nature of the .y/jem/, they may be {own promijcuoufiy, ' 

 which is the moduatural and Rural j or inftraight and even lines, 

 for Hedge-rows, Avenues, and Walks, which is the more Ornamen- 

 tal : But becaufe fome may chufe rather to draw them out of 

 Nurjeries ; that the Culture is not much different , nor the hin- 

 derance confiderable (provided they be early, and carefully Re- 

 moved) 



