A DifcoHffe of t'oreft-Trees, it 



may ( before you ftir their Roots ) ferve for the tnore certain 

 Guide ; and then plant them immediately, with as much Earth as 

 will adhere to them, in the place deftin'd for their Jiation 5 abating 

 only the tap-roots, which is that doWn-right, and ftubby part of 

 the Roots (which all Trees rais'd of Seed^ do univerfally produce) 

 and quickning fome of the reft with a iharp k»ife (but fparing the 

 Fibrous, which are the main Suckers and Mouths of all Trees) 

 (pread them in thefof, or pit which hath been prepar'd to receive 

 them. I fay in the/<?/, unlefs you will rather tre»ch the whole 

 Field, which is incomparably the beft , and infinitely to be prc- 

 fcrr'd before narrow pits and holes (as the manner is) in cafe you 

 plant any number confiderable , the Earth being hereby made 

 loofi, eajier and penetrable for the Roots j about which you are to 

 caft that Mould which (in opening of the Trench) you took from 

 the Surface, and purpofely laid apart ; becaufc it is fweet, mel- 

 low, and better impregnated : But in this IVbrk^, be circumfpeft 

 never to inter your Stent deeper then you found it ftanding 5 for 

 profound burnings very frequently deftroys a Tree j though an Er- 

 rour feldom obferved : If therefore the Roots be fufficiently co- 

 vered to keep the Body fteady and erreft, it is enough ^ and the 

 not minding of this trifling Circumjtance does very much deceive 

 our ordinary Wood-men : For moft Roots covet the Air (though' 

 that of the §>uercus urbana leaft of any ; 



■quod quantum vertice ad auras 



^thereof, tantum radice ad tartar a tendit) 



And the perfeftion of that does almoft as much concern the 

 profperity of a Tree, as o? Man himfelf, fince Homo is but Arbor 

 imierfa -^ which prompts me to this curious, but important Ad- 

 vertijement 5 That the Poftion be likewife feduloufly obferved. 



7. For, the Southern parts being more dilated, and the pores ex- 

 pos'd (as evidently appears in their Horizontal Se6fions)hy the 

 ConOant Excentricity of their Hyperbolical Circles j being now on 

 the j«<^<^e»5and at fuch a feafon converted to the North, doesjierve, 

 and deftroy more Trees (how careful foever men have be;en in or- 

 dering the Roots, and preparing the Ground) then any other Acci- 

 dent whatfoever (negled: oijiaking, and defending from Cattle ex- 

 cepted) the importance whereof caufed the beft oiFoets, and 

 moft experienc'd in this Argument, giving advice concerning this 

 Article, to add 



^inetiam Cceli regionem in corticeftgnani, 

 Vtquo qu^eque modojieterit, qua parte calores 

 Aujtrinostulerit, quaterga obverterit axi 

 Rejiituant : Adeo in teneris confuefcere multum eji. 



Gt0r.li.i4 

 Vi/hich Monition, though F//>y, and fome others think good to 

 negleft, ot edeetn Indifferent j lean confirm from frequent loffes 

 of my own, and by particular trials j having fometimes Tranf- 



D a planted 



