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Mof^ slab and Ou%e^ and frequently prun'd (efpecially the fmallcr 

 fpires) to form fingle (hoots ; at lead, that few, or none grow 

 double : Thefe they kead every fecond year about September, the 

 Autumnttl cuttings being beft for ufe : But generally 



7. You may cut Withies, Sallys, and IVillows at any mild and 

 gentle_/erf/<?» between leaf and leaf even in Winter 5 but the moft 

 congruous time both to plant and to cut them is Crefcente Luni 

 Vere, circa calendas Martias ^ that is, about the new Moon, and 

 firft open weather of the early Spring, 



8. It is in France, upon the Loire, where thefe Eights (as we call 

 them) and Plantations of Oziers and Withies are perfeftly under- 

 ftood -f as it feems in fome places alfo of our own Country, where I 

 have heard twenty pounds has been given for one Acre. To omit n, 

 nothing of the culture of this ufeful Ozier, Pliny would have the 

 place to be prepar'd by trenching it a foot and half deep, and in 



that to fix thefits or cuttings of the fame length at fix foot inter- 

 val. Thefe ( if the (ets be large) will come immediately to be 

 Trees ^ which after the firll: three years are to be abated within 

 two foot of the ground. Then, in April, he advifcs to dig about 

 them : Of thefe they formerly made Vine-props, and one Acre hath 

 been known to yield props fufficient to ferve a Vineyard of twenty 

 five Acres. 



10. John Tradefcan brought a fmall Ozier from St. Omers in 

 Flanders, which makes incomparable Net-tvorks, not much inferi- 

 our to the Indian twig or Bent-works which we have feen j but if 

 we had them in greater abundance, we ftiould haply want the 

 Artificers who could imploy them. 



I. Our common Willarv of the woodier Covt delights in Meads fV3jn>. 

 and Ditch-fides, rather dry, then over wet (for fo they laft longeft) 

 and would be planted offtakes as big as on's leg, cut at the length 

 of five or fix foot, and fix'd a foot or more into the earth j the 

 hole made with an Oaken-ftake and beetle,or with an Iron-cr0w(^Comc 

 ufe a long Augur) fo as not to be forced in with too great vio- 

 lence : But firft, the Trunchions ftiould be a little flop'd at both 

 extreams, and the biggeft planted downwards : To this, if they 

 aie JoalCd in water two or three days (after they have been fiz'd for 

 length, and the twigs cut off ere you plant them) it will be the 

 better. Let this be done in February. Arms of four years 

 growth will yield fubftantialje?/ to be planted at eight or ten foot 

 diftance 5 and for the firft three years well defended from the Cat- 

 tel, who infinitely delight in their leaves, green or wither'd. Thus 2. 

 a ^r?//<>w may continue twenty, or five aodtwenty years, with good 

 profit to the induftrious Planter, being headed every four or five 

 years, fome have been known to fijoot no lefs then twelve foot in 

 cm yi^AT, after which the old, rotten Dotards may he felPd, and 

 eafily fupplied. But if you have ground fit for whole Copjes of 

 thii Wood, caft it into double <^/A?j-, making every /^/ neer three 

 foot wide ; two and half in depth ; then leaving four foot at leaft 

 of ground for the earth (becaufe in fuch Plantations the moifture 

 ftiould be below the roots, that they may rather fee, then feel the 



H 2 water) 



