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A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. 



124 When you would Fellltx. the Saf be perfedly in repofe ; as 

 'tis commonly about November or December^ after the fioji hath 

 well nipp'd them : I have already alleadg'd my reafon for it ; and 

 I am told. That both Oak^ ana Elm fo cut, the very Saplings 

 (whereof Rafters^ Spars^^c. are made) will continue as long as 

 the very heart of the Tree without decay. In this work, cut your 

 kfrfg near to the ground ; but have a care that it fufFer not in the 

 fal/, and be ruined with its own weight .' This depends upon your 

 fVood-Mans judgment in dkbranchitig , and is a neceflary caution 

 to the Felling of all other Timber-Trees. If any begin to doat, 

 pick out fuch for the Ax, and rather truft to its Succejfor. 



13. Elmlsa. 7V«/^crofmoft Angular Vje '^ efpecially where it 

 may lie continually dry, or ivet in extreames ^ therefore proper for 

 Water-works, Mills, Pipes, Tumps, ship-planks beneath the Water- 

 line j and fome that has been found buried in Boggs, has ttirn'd 

 like the moft polifti'd, and hardeft Ebony, only difcern'd by the 

 grain : Alfo for Wheel-xorights , Kerbs of Coppers, Featheridg and 

 Weather-boards, Drejjers and fundry other imployments. It makes 

 alfo the fecond fort of Charcoal 5 and finally (which I muft not 

 omit) the ufe of the very leaves of this Tree, efpecially of the fe- 

 male, is not to be defpis'd j for being fuffered to dry in the Snn 

 upon the Branches, and the ^ray ftirip'd off about the decreafe in 

 Augufi (as alfo where the fuckers znafiolones are fuper-numerary, 

 and hinder the thriving of their Nurfes') they will prove a great 

 relief to Cattel in Winter, when hay and fodder is dear 3 they will 

 eat them even before Oates , and thrive exceedingly well With 

 them 'j remember only to lay your Boughs up in ibme dry, and 

 fweet corner of your Barn : It was for this the Poet prais'd them, 

 and the Epithete was advis'd, 



mfecHnd<e fondibm Vlmi. Georg. 2 . 



In fome parts of Hereford-pire they gather them in Sacks for 

 their Swine, and other C^i^^e/ according to this husbandry. 



CHAP. V. 



Of the Beech. 



j^y i.'T'^He Beech, {FagmyiVLVdhxeA amongft the glandiferous Trees, 



X I r^"k here before the martial ^j, becaufe it commonly 

 grows to a greater ftature. There are of thefe Fagi two, or three 

 }{inds with us j the Mountain,-w);nch. is the whitcft,and moft fought 

 after by the Turner ; and the Campefiral or wild, which is of a 

 blacker colour, and more durable. They are both to be rais'd 

 from the Mafl, and govern'd like the 0<«4, of which amply ; and 

 that is abfolutely the beft way of furniftiing a Wood ; But they are 



likewife 



