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A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. 



muter- but the fhade of them is not to be endur'd, becaufe it 

 produces a noxioxxs InJeS j and for difplaying themfelves fovcry 

 Ute and falling very c^r/^, not to be planted {or VmLrage, otOr- 

 namtnt j efpecially neer the Garden , fince (befides their preda- 

 titious Rootf) the deciduous leaves defcending with fo long a 

 Stalk, are drawn by clufters into the Worm-holes^ which foulthe 

 Allies mth. their falling Keys^ and fuddenly inieft the ground. 



CHAP. VII. 



Of the Chefi-ttHt. 



Cbefs-nut. I* 'T" He next is the Chef-mt^ [Cajianea'] of which Plhiy reckons 

 J[ many kinds, efpecially that about Tarefitum and Naples 5 

 but we commend thofe oirortugal. They are rais'd beft hy fovcing ^ 

 previous to which, let the Nnts be fitft Ipread tojiveat, then cover 

 them'in fandj a Moneth being paft, plunge them in Water ^ rejeft 

 the Sroimmers ; being dry'd for thirty days more , find them 

 again, and then to the vcater-ordeal as before. Being thus treated 

 till the beginning of Spring, fet them as you would do Beam .- 

 r///y will tell you they come not up, unJefs four or five be pil'd to- 

 gether in a hole i but that is falfe, if they be good, as you may 

 prefume all thofe to be which pafs this examination 5 nor will any 

 of them fail : But being come up they thrive beft unremov'd, ma- 

 king a gxeatjiand for at leaft two years upon every Tran^lanting 5 

 yet if needs you muft alter their Station , let it be done about 

 November, and that into a light friable ground, or moift Gravels, 

 however, they will grow even in Clay , Hand^ and all mixed 

 foils , upon expos'd and bleak places , as more patient of cold 

 then heat. 



2. If you defire to fet them in Winter, or Autumn, I counfel 

 you to inter them within their hmks , which being every way 

 arm'd are a good proteftion againft the Mouje, and a providen- 

 tial integument : Some fow them confufedly in the Furrow like 

 the Acorn, and govern them as the Oalt^-^ but then would the 

 ground be broken up 'twixt Hovemher and February j and when 

 they fpring be cleanfed at two foot afunder, after two years 

 growth : Likewife may Copfes of Chef-nuts be wonderfully in- 

 creaied and thickn'd by laying the tender and young branches y 

 but fuch as fpring from the Nuts and Marrons are belt of all, and 

 will thrive exceedingly, if being let ftand without removing, the 

 ground be flirr'd and loofcn'd about their Roots for two or three 

 of the firft years, and the luperfluous wood pruned away : Thus 

 will you have a Copfe ready for zfelling within eight years, which 

 (befides many other ul'es) will yield you incomparable poles for 

 any work of the Garden, Vineyard, or Hop-yard, till the next cnt- 

 ting: And if the Tree hke the ground, will in ten or twelve 



years 



