A DifcoHrfe of ForcH'Trees. 31 



fore turnd into Boxes for the Apothecaries ^ and Columella com- 

 mends Arculas tiliaceas : with the Tveigs they made Baskets^ and 

 Cradles j and of the finoother fide of the bark Tablets for Wri- 

 ting ; for the antient Fhilyra is but our Tilta. The Gravers in 

 wood dofometimesmake uleof this fine A/^^erz^/j and even of 

 the courfeft membrane, or (livers of the Tree growing 'twixt tiie 724?, 



WA, and the main body, they now twift into Baf-ropes ; Befides 

 the Truncheons make a far better Coal for Gun-powder then that of 

 ^/^er it felf : and the extraordinary candor and lightnejShSiS digni- 

 fi'd it above all the Woods of our Forest in the hands of the Right 

 Honourable the white-fiave Officers of his MajeSiies Imperial 

 Court. Thofe royal Plantations of thefe Trees in the Parl{s of 

 Hamfton-Court, and St. James's will fufficiently inftruft any man 

 how thefe (and indeed all other Treej which ftand fingle) are to 

 be govern'd, and defended from the injuries of 5e<«/?j-j and fome- 

 times more unreafotiable Creatures, till they are able to proteft 

 themlelves. Jn Hol/and (where the very high- ways are adorn'd 

 with them) they frequently clap three or four Deal-boards (in 

 manner of a clofe trunk) about them ; but it is not fo well ; be- 

 caufe it keeps out the air which (hould have free accefs, and in- 

 tercourfe to the bole, and by no means be excluded from flowing 

 freely about them, or indeed any other Trees j provided they 

 are (ecur'd from the violence of impetuous winds, &c. as his Ma- 

 jejiies are without thofe clofe Coffins ^ in which the Dutch-men feem 

 rather to bury them alive : In the mean time, is there a more ra- 

 vilbing, or delightful objedt then to behold fome vatxxefireets^ 

 and whole Towns planted with thefe Trees, in even lines before 

 their doors, fo as they feem like Cities in a wood .<? this is extream* 

 lyfrefh, and skreens the houfes both from Wr»<^j-, sunaadDuJi^ 

 then which there can be nothing more defirable where fl:reets are 

 much frequented. 



CHAP. XIV. 



Of the Qukh^Beam. 



I. -np^He ^ickzbeam^Ornuf] or(as others term it)the Whitchen^ ^Uk-beam, 



JL is dijpeciesoiWild'Afh. The Berries which it produces in 

 oSober mzy thenbefown^ or rather the ^e^/ planted : Itrifesto 

 a reafonable ftature , {hoots upright, and (lender ^ and confifts of 

 a fine fmooth bark. It delights to be both in Mountains and 

 Woods, and to fix it felf in good light ground. Befides the ufe of 2. 

 it for the Hmbandmans Tools (as once by a Statute of Hen. 8. for 

 Bows} and for fuel, I have not yet obferved any other , fave that 

 theBloJJoms are of an agreeable fcent. 



CHAP. 



