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and kt it be fufficiently mellow'd with the)rtfii?x5 and then the 

 third year cut your Trees near to the ground with a (harp Bil/, the 

 Moon decreafing. 



2. But if you would make a Grove for pleafure, plant them in 

 Fofesat a. yard diftance, and cut them within half a foot of the 

 earth, drefling them for three or four Springs, and Autumns, by 

 only loofning the Mould a little about their roots. Others there 

 are who fet the N«^x by hand at one foot diftance, to be tran^lant- 

 ed the third year at a yard afunder : But this work is not to be ta- 

 ken in hand lb foon as the Nuts fall, till Winter be well advanc'd ; 

 becaufe they are exceedingly obnoxious to the fiofis 5 nor will 

 they fprout till the Spring : Befides, Vertmne are great devourers 

 of them : Preferve them therefore moiji, not mouldy, by laying 

 them in their own dry leaves, or in Smd, till January. 



Tlantk df dura Cory li nafcuntur- — 



3. Hajels are likewife propagated o{ Sets, and Suckers '^ from 

 whence they thrive very well, the Jfioots being of the fcantlings 

 of fmall tvands, and Jivitches, or fbmewhat bigger, and fuch as 

 have drawn divers hairy twigs, which are by no means to be dij^ 

 branch' d, no more then their Roots, unlcfs by a very fparing and 

 difcrcet hand. Thus your Coryletum or Copfe of Hafels being 

 planted about Autumn,ma.y (as Ibme praftife it)be cut within three 

 or four inches of the ground the Spring following, which the new 

 Cion will fuddenly repair in cluftersand tufts offairpo/ex of twen- 

 ty, and fometimes thirty foot long : But, I rather fhould (pare 

 them till two, or three years after, when they (hall have taken 

 ftrong hold , and may be cut clofe to the very earth ^ the impro- 

 fperous , and feeble ones elpecially. Thus are likewile Fil- 

 berts to be treated , both of them improv'd much by tranf- 

 planting. 



4. For theplace, they above all affeft cold, barren, dry and Jat/dy 

 grounds ^ alfo Mountains, and even rockje foils produce them ; 

 but more plentifully if fomewhat moift, dankilh, and moflie, as 

 in the frelher Bottoms , and (ides of Hills , and in Hedge-rows. 

 Such as are maintain'd for Copjes, may after twelve years befel/'d 

 the firft time 5 the next at feven or eight, di^c. for by this period 

 their Roots will be compleatly vigorous. You may plant them 

 from oBoher to "January, provided you keep them carefully jveeded 

 till they have taken faft hold. 



5, The u(e of the Hafel is for Poles, Spars, Hoops, Hurdles, 

 Forks, Angling-rods, Faggots, Coals -J alfoforW^z^/>*J and bands, up- 

 on which I remember Pliny thinks it a pretty Speculation, that a 

 wood (hould be ftronger to bind withall being bruis'd and divi- 

 ded, r'^ien when jr/)tf/e and ew^zre^ laftly, for nding Switches Siwd. 

 Dtvinatory Rods for the detecting and finding out of Minerals ; 

 atle.'fl:, if that tradition be noimpofture. 



There is a compendious expedient for the thickning of Copfes 

 which are too tranjparent, by laying of a Sampler, or pole of an 



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