A DifcoHrfe of Forcft-Trees. 



Counted yet living, which is neer twelve foot in campaf^ and of an 

 height proportionable •■, notwithftanding the numcvons progeny 

 which grows under the (hade of it, fbme whereof are at Icaft a 

 foot in Diameter^ that for want of being feafonably tranjplattfed 

 muft needs have hindered the procerity of their ample and indul- 

 gent Mother. 



•2. Both thefey^r^j are rais'd oiAppendicei or Suckers (as anon we 

 (hall defcribe) but this latter comes well from the Santera or Seeds, 

 which being ripe about the beginning of March will produce 

 them ^ as we fee abundantly in the Gardens of the Thnylkries, 

 and that of Luxembourg^ at Taris^ where they ufually fow thetti- 

 ftlves, and come up very thick ^ and fb do they in many places of 

 our Country ^ihovi^ fo feldom taken notice ofjasthat it is efteem'd 

 a Fable by the lefs obfervant and ignorant P'nlgar. To raife them 

 therefore of their .5ce^/ (being well dry'd a day or two before) 

 Iprinkleit in Be^/ prepared of good earths fiefting fomeofthe 

 fineft mould thinly over them, and watering them when need re* 

 quires. Being rifen an inch above ground (refrelh'd, and pre- 

 ferv'd from the fcraping of Birds and Poultry) comfort the tender 

 feedlings by a (econd fiefting of moje fine earthjto eftablifh them 5 

 thiis keep them clean weeded for the fir ft tvpo years 5 or till beifig of 

 fitting ftature to Remove , you may thin, and Tran^Unt them in 

 the fame manner as you were dircfted for young Oakj 5 only they 

 fliall not need above one cutting where they grow left regular and 

 hopeful. But becaufe this is an Experiment of fome curiosity, ob- 

 noxious to many cafualties, and that the producing them from thtf 

 .Mother-roots oi^xedAcx'Xvecs is very facile and expeditious (be- 

 fides the numbers which are to be found in the Hedge-rows^ and 

 Woods, of all plantable fizes) I rather advife our Forejier to fucnilh 

 himfelf from rhofe places. 



3. The Suckers which I fpeak of are produc*d in abundance 

 from the Roots, whence being dextroufly feparated , after the 

 Earth has been well loofen'd, and planted about the end ofo^tf- 

 ber^ they will grow very well : Nay, thejiubs only, which are 

 left in the ground after a FtUing (being fenced in as far as the 

 /Joofj extend) willfurnilh you with plenty, which may be Trdnf- 

 flanted from the firji year or two fucceflively, by flipping theiri 

 from the Roots ^ which will continually fupply you for many years 

 afterthat the body of the Mother Tree has been cut down : And 

 from hence probably is fprung that (I fear) miftake of Salmafius 

 and others, where they write of the growing of their Chips Q. 

 fuppofe, having fome of the bark on) fcatter'd in hewing of their 

 Timber > the Errour proceeding from this, that after an Elm-tree 

 has been Fell'd, the numerous Suckers which {hoot from the re- 

 mainders of the latent Roots fecm to be produced from this diC- 

 perfion of the Chips : Let this yet be more accurately examin'd 3 for 

 I pronounce nothing Magijterially. 



4. But there is alfo another Artifice to produce them fooner, 

 which is this ^ Bare fome of the Majier-roots of a vigorous Tree, 

 within a/o(?f of the Trunks or thereabouts, and with your Axe 



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