ADifiOUrfeof Forejft-Trees. 5P 



for fuch Buildings us lye continually under water, where it will 

 harden like a \cvyJione , whereas being kept in any miconftant 

 temper it rots immediately : Vitruvius tells us, that the Moraffes 

 about Ravenna in Italy wevepil'd with this Timber^ to fpfperjtru^ 

 upon, and highly commends it. 



5. The Poles oi Alder are as ufefulas thofe oi WiUoros 5 but 

 the coals far exceed them ^ efpecially for Gun-port>der : The fVood 

 is likewife ufeful for riles, rumps , Water-pipes , Troughs, Sluces^ 

 Wooden-heels, and the fwelling bunches which are now and then 

 found in the old Trees, afford the Inlayer pieces curioufly chamlet- 

 /c<5^andvery hard,^^:. but \\\e.Fagots better for the^re then for 

 the draining of Grounds, by placing them (as the guiie is) in the 

 Trenches 5 • which old rubbilh of flints. Stones, and the like grofs 

 materials, docs infinitely exceed , becaufe it is for ever, preferves 

 the Draines hoUow, and being a little moulded over will pro- 

 duce ^ood grap, without any detriment to the iiround > but this is 

 zjecret, not yet well underftood, and would merit an exprefs 

 Paragraph, were it here feafonable, 



'^ jam nos inter opacas 



Mufa vocat Salices- 



CHAP. XIX. 



Of the Withy ^ Sally^ Ox^ier, and Willow. 



I. OInce Cato has attributed the third place to the Sali&um, pre- Withy, 



^ ferring it even next to the very Ortyard-^ and (what one 

 would wonder at) before even the Olive, Meadow, or Corn-field it 

 felf (for Sali&uvi tertio loco, nempe poji vineam, C^c.) and that we 

 find it fo eafily raised, of fo great and univerfal Vfe, I have 

 thought good to be the more particular in my Difcourfe upon 

 them i e^ecially, fince fo much of that which I (hall publifli con- 

 cerning them, is deriv'd from the long experience of a moft learn- 

 ed and ingenious perfon, from whom I acknowledge to have re- 

 ceiv'd many of thefe hints. 



Not to perplex the Reader with the various names,Greel{,Gallic, 

 Sabinic, Amerine, Vitex, &c. better diftinguifh'd by their growth, 

 and bark§ , and by Latine Authors all comprehended under that 

 of Salices , I begin with the Withy. The Withy is a reafpna- 

 ble large Tree, and fit to be planted on high banks ^ becaufe they 

 extend their roots deeper then either Sallyes or WiUovps. For this 

 reafon you {hall plant them at ten or twenty foot diftance^ a-nd 

 though they grow the iloweft of all the twiggy Trees ; yet do 

 they recompence it with the larger croph the wood being tough, 

 and the twigs fit to bind ftrongly 5 the very peelings of the 

 branches being ufeful to bind Arbour^^^oXmg, and in Topiary works, 

 yineyards,EJpalier-p-uJt,and the like. 2. There 



