3^ A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trecs. 



Hafel, yip, TopUr^&c. of twenty, or thirty foot in length (the 

 head a little loppM) into the ground, giving it a chop neer the 

 foot to make it fuccumb ; thh faftned to the earth with a heoksx 

 two, and cover'd with fome frefti mould at a competent depth 

 (as Gard'mrs lay their Carnations) will produce a world oifiukgrs^ 

 thicken and furnifti a Copfe fpeedily. But I am now come to tte 

 WaUr-Jtde •■, let us next confider the Aquatic. 



CHAP. xvir. 



Of the Poplar. 



Poplar. I. T Begin this fecond C/^/? ( according to our former Diftri- 

 X button) with the Ptf/'/dr, of which there are feveral kinds ^ 

 white. Blacky, <&€. befides the Afpen : The rohite is the moft ordi- 

 nary with us, to be raie'd in abundance by every^e^ ox flip : Fence 

 the ground as far as any old Poplar roots extend, they will furnifti 

 you v/\ihfl(ckert innumerable, to be flip'd from their mothers, and 

 tran^lanted the very firft year. You (hall need no other Nurferji. 

 When they are young their leaves are fomewhat broader , and 

 rounder then when they grow aged. In moift, and hoggjf places 

 they will flourifti wonderfully, fo the ground be not j^ewing j but 

 cfpecially neer the Margins and banks oiRivers, 



Fopulffs influvifs Virg. 



Alfo*r««<:A/<7»Jof feven, or eight foot long, thrufttwo foot into 

 the earth , when once rooted , may be cut at fix inches above 

 ground , and thus placed at a yard diftant they will immediately 

 turnilh a kind of Copfi. But in cafe you plant them of rooted- 

 trees, or fmallcry?*/, fix them not iodeep'^ for though we bury 

 the Trunchions thus profound ; yet is the root which they ftrike 



2. Afpen, commonly but (hallow. The Jjpen only (which is that kind of 

 Vfhitc Poplar bearing a fmaller, and more tremulous leaf) thrufts 

 down a more fearching foot, and in this likewife differs, that j6e 

 takes it ill to have his head cut off : Pliny would have (hort trun- 

 chions couched two foot in the ground (but firft two days dry'd) 

 at one foot and half diftance, and then moulded over. 



a. Abele. 3" There is fbmething a finer fort of White Poplar which the 



DutchcdWAbele, and we have much tranfported out oi Holland: 

 Thefe are alio beft propagated oi flips from the Roots, the Icaft 

 of which will tat^, and may in March, at three, or four years 

 growth be tranfplanted. 



4. In F/rfWer/ (not in France, as a late Author /'^e^eW/ J they 

 have large Nurferies of them, which firft they plant at one foot 

 diftance, the mould light, and moift j but, as I (aid, they muft be 

 interrdpietty deep, and kept clean by pruning them to the mid- 

 dle 



