A Difcourfe of Fo reft- Trees. 12 



general improfperity where the ground is a hot gravely and a loofe 

 earth : An Oal^or Elme in fuch a place (hall not in an hiwdred 

 years overtake one oi fifty planted in its frofer foil ; though next 

 to this, and (haply) before it, I prefer the good Air : But thus 

 have they fuch vaft Juniper t in Spain j and the Ajhes in fome parts 

 of the Levant (as of old neer Troy) fo excellent, as it was after 

 miftaken for Cedar ^ fo great was the difference ^ as now the Can- 

 tahrian or Spanish exceeds any we have elfe in all Europe. 



9. But before we take leave of this r^rrf^r^ipA, concerning the 

 Tranjplanting of great Trees, and to (hew what is poffible to be 

 effeded\nt\\\s kind, with coft, and induftry. Count Maurice (the 

 late Governour of Brazil for the Hollanders) planted a Grove neer 

 his delicious Paradife of Frihurge , containing fix hundred Coco- 

 trees of eighty years growth , and fifty foot high to the neereft 

 bough : thefe he wafted upon Floats^ and Engines, four long 

 miles, and planted them fo luckily, that they bare abundantly 

 the very firfl: year 5 as Gajpar Bar Ideas hath related in his elegant 

 Defcription of that Princes expedition : Nor hath this only Suc- 

 ceeded in the indies alone 5 Monjieur de Fiat (one of the Marfials 

 of France) hath with huge Oaks done the like at de Fiat : fhall I 

 yet bring you neerer home ? My Lord Hopton planted Oaks as big 

 as twelve Oxen could draw, to fupply fome dcfed in an Avenue 

 to one of his houfes in Devon/Jnrei as the Right Honourable 

 Sir Charles Barclay, Treafurer of His Majejiies Houpold, affur'd me 5 

 who had himfelf likewife praftis'd the Removing of great Oaks by 

 a particular addrefi extreamly ingenious, and worthy the commu- 

 nication. 



10. Chuie a Tree as big as your thigh, remove. the earth from 

 about him ^ cut through all the col/ateral Koots, till with a com- 

 petent ftrength you can enforce him down upon one fide, fo as to 

 come with your Axe at the Tap-root j cut that off, redreft your 

 Tree, and ib let it fi:and cover'd about with the mould you loofen'd 

 from it, till the next year, or longer if you think good 5 then 

 take it up at a fit feafon; it will likely have drawn new tender 

 Roots apt to take, and fufficicnt for the Tree, whereloever you 

 (hall tranfplant him : rZ/Vy notes it as a common thing, to re-erta- 

 bliih huge Trees which have been blown down , part of their 

 Roots torn up, and the body profi:ratei and^inp rticular, of a 

 F7>, that when it was to be tranjplanted had a tap-root which went 

 no lefs then eight cubits perpendicular ^ and to thefe I could fu- 

 peradd , but I proceed. To facilitate the Removal of fuch mon- 

 ftrous Treej-, for the Adornment of Ibme particularp/^^fe, or the ra- 

 rity of the Plant, theic is this expedient. A little before the hard- 

 eft: Fr^j- furprize you, makeafquare Trench about your Tree, at 

 fuch dift:ance from the Stem as you judge lufficient for the Root , 

 dig this of competent depth, fo as almoft: quite to undermine it 3 

 by placing blocks, and quarters of wood, to fuftain the Earth x, this 

 done, caft in as much Water as may fill the Trench, or at leaft fufE- 

 ciently wet it, unlefs the ground were very moift before. Thus 

 let it ft:and, till fome very hard Fro^ do bind it firmly to the 



Roots, 



