i6 A Difcourfe of Forcft-Trees. 



likcwife by the upright ienor of the Bark-i as being the moft pro- 



Eer for cleaving : The kfwttieji for IVater-workj.^ VJles and the like 5 

 ecaufe 'twill drive beft, and lafl: longeft. Were planting of thefe 

 Woods more in ufe, we lliould baniOi our hoop of Hafel^ ^c, for 

 thofe of good Oak^^ which being made of the yonngev poots, are 

 exceeding tough and ftrong : One of them being of Ground Oa^ 

 will out-lafty7x- of the beft Jp. The fmaller trunchions, and jf^>vy, 

 make Billet^ Bavine and Coals ^ and the very Bark^k of price with 

 the Tanner and Dier ^to whom the very Saw-duji is of ufe, as are the 

 Jfies and lee to cure the roapipnej^ ot PVine.TheGround-OakjwhWe 

 young is us'd for Foles^ Cudgels and Walkjng-flaff's^ not to forget 

 the Galls ^ Mijjktoe, and many other ufeful Excrejcencies : Pliny af- 

 firms that the Calls do break out altogether in one night about the 

 beginning oijune, and arrive to their full growth in one daji :, this 

 I recommend to the experience of fome extraordinary vigilant 

 Wood-man. What benefit the Maft does univerfally yield for the 

 fatting of Hogs and Deer I ftiall (hew upon another occafion, be- 

 fore the conclufion of this Difcourfe; in the mean time, the 

 very Acorns themfelves were heretofore the Food of Men (as well 

 as other ProduCfions of the earth) till their luxurious Palats were 

 debauched-^ and even in the Romans time, the cuftom was in Spain 

 to make njecondfervice of Acorns and Maji^ (as the French now do 

 o(Marrons, and Chef-nuts') which they likewife ufed to roft under 

 the embers. Oaks bear alfo a kl^nr^ full of a Cottony matterjof which 

 they Antiently made Wick^ for their Lamps and Candles v, and 

 among the SeleBiora Remedia of "jo. Pravotius there is mention 

 of an Oyl e quemaglande Chymically extraHed, which he affirmes 

 to be or the longeft continuance, and leaft confumptive of any 

 others whatfoever, for fuch lights, ita m uncia fingulis menjibus 

 vix abfumatur tontinuo igne. To conclude, M. Blith makes 

 Spars and fmall building Timber of Oakes of eleven years 

 growth 5 this is indeed a prodigious Advance , but I fufped 

 the figure. 



CHAP. IV. 



Of the Elm. 



'S'lm '• C^ *^^ ^'^ there are four, or five forts , and from the 



V_^ difference of the Soil and Air divers j^urious : Two 

 of thefe kinds are moft worthy our culture, -viz,, the Mountain 

 Elm, which is taken to be the Oriptelea of Theophrafius > being of 

 a lefs, jagged and fmaller leaf; and the Vemacula or Trench Elm, 

 whofe leaves are thicker, and more florid, delighting in the low- 

 er, and moifter grounds, where they will fometimes rife to 

 above an hundred toot in height, and a prodigious growth, in lefs 

 then an Age 5 my lelf having feen one planted by the hand of a 



Countef 



