A Difconrfe of Foreft-Trees. 



their ralms will be very ample, and yield the firft, and moft 

 plentiful relief to Bees^ even before our Abricots bloflbm. 



The hopping Sallys open, and yield their Talms before other 

 Sallys J and when they are hlown (which is about the exit of May^ 

 or fometimes 7"*^) the Valms are four inches long, and full of a 

 fine Cotton : A poor Body might in an hours (pace gather a 

 pound or two of it , which refembling the fineft J//^, might 

 doubtlefs be converted to fome profitable ufe by an ingenious 

 HoHfe-wife. 



9. Of thefe Hopptiig Sallys^ afi:er three years rooting, each plant 

 will yield about a fcore of Jiaves of full eight foot in length , and 

 (b following, for ufe, as we noted above : Compute then how 

 many fair Tikfi-Jiaves^ Perches, and other ufeful Materials, that 

 will amount to in an Acre, if planted at five foot interval : But a 

 fat, and moift foil requires indeed more fpace then a lean or 

 dryer ; namelyj7x or eight foot diftance. 



10. You may ^lantfet lings of the very firft years growth 5 but 

 thejecond year they are better, and the thirdyear better then the 

 fecond^ and the fourth as good as the third; efpccially, if they 

 approach the water. A bank at a foot diftance from the rvater 

 is kinder for them then a Eog, or to be altogether immers'd in 

 the water. 



11. Tisgood to new-mould them about the Roots every fe- 

 cond or third year > but Men feldom take the pains. It feems 

 that Sallys are more hardy then even Willows and Oziers, of 

 which Columella takes as much care as of Vines themCelves. But 

 'tis cheaper to fupply the vacuity of fuch accidental decays by a 

 new plantation, then to be at the charge of digging about them 

 three times a year, as that Author advifes ; feeing ibme of them 

 will decay , whatever care be ufed. 



12. Sallys may alfo be propagated like Fines, by courbing, and 

 bowing them in Arches, and covering fome of their parts with 

 mould, c^f. 



i^. For fit lings, thofe are to be preferr'd which grow neereft 

 to the Jiock^, and fo (confequently) thofe worft which moft ap- 

 proach the top. They (hould be planted in the firft fair, and 

 pleafant weather in February, before they begin to bud. They 

 may be cut in spring for F«e/; but beft in Autumnfovufi , but in 

 this work (as of Poplar) leave a tivig or two > which being twifted 

 Arch-rrife will produce plentiful grouts , and fuddenly furnifti 

 a head. 



14. \£\noviX Copfes one in four were z Sally ^tt, amongftthc 

 feft of varieties, the profit would recompence the care. 



1 5. The fwift: growing Sally is not fo tough, and hardy for fome 

 ufis as the /lower, which makesjiocks for Gard'ners Spades , but 

 the other are proper (ov Rakes, Pikes, Mops, Si.c. Sally-coal is the 

 fooneft confum'd ; but of all others the moft accommodate for 

 Painters to defign their Work., zx\6firji draught or\ paper v/\th, C^c. 

 as being fine, and apt to flit into Pencils. 



16. To conclude, there is a way oi grajfing a Sally trunchion y 



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