A4 A Difcourfe of Foreft- Trees. 



water) and two Tables of Sets on each fide, plant the Ridges of 

 thefe Banks with but one fingle TabJe^ longer and bigger then the 

 Cal/atcral,t'iZ" three, four, five or fix foot high, and diftant fi-om 

 2. each other about two yards. Thefe Batiks being carefully kept 

 xoeeded for the firfl: two years, till the Plants have vanquilh'd the 

 Gra^-^ every Jcreat eleven, or twelve years growth, may yield 

 you neer an hundred load of wood : Cut them in the Spring for 

 drefling 5 but in the Fall for Timber and Fuel : I have been in- 

 form'd, that a Gentleman in Ejjex has lopp'd no lefs then 2000 

 yearly, all of his own planting. 



4. There is a fort of WiUore of a flender and long leaf, refem- 

 • blkig the fmaller 0%ier ; but rifing to a Tree as big as the Sally 5 

 full of kftots, and of a very brittle j^i^ay, only here rehears' d to 

 acknowledge the variety . 



5. There is likewife the Garden-n>illovp , which produces a 

 fweet and beautiful flower, fit to be admitted into our Hortulan 

 ornaments, and may be fet for partitions oifquares-^ but they 

 have no affinity with other. There is alfo in shropfiire andther 

 very odoriferous kind. 



6. What moft of the former enumerated kinds differ from the Sal- 

 lys,\s indeed not much confiderable,they being generally ufeful for 

 the fame purpofes ; as Boxes, fuch as Apothecaries and Goldfmitbs 

 ufe •-, for Cart-Saddle-trees, Harrows ,shooe-makfrs Lajis, Heels, Clogs 

 for Fattens, Fearches, Hop-poles i, Ricing of kidny-beans, and for 

 Supporters to Vines , when our Englip Vineyards come more in re- 

 *queft : Alfo for Hurdles, Sieves, Lattices 5 for the Turner, Coals 

 and Bavin. T\iewood being preferv'd dry will dure a very long 

 time 3 but that which is found wholly p«^r/^'<^ , and reduc'd to a 

 loamy earth in the hollow trunks o( fuperannuated Trees, is, of 

 all other, thefittefttobe mingl'd with dne mould for the raifing 

 our choicefl: Flowers, fuch as Anemonies, Ranunculus's, Auriculas, 

 and the like j for 



G^id majorafequar .<? Salices, humiles^ genijite 

 Aut illipecorip'ondem, autpa^oribus umbram 

 Suffciunt, Jepem^fatif, d^pabula melli. 



Georg. 2. 

 7. Now by all thefe Plantations of the Aquatic Trees, it is evi- 

 dent the Lords of Moorifti Commons , and unprofitable WaSies, 

 may learn fome improvement, and the neighbour Bees begratifi'dj 

 and many Tools of Husbandry become much cheaper. I conclude, 

 with the learned Stephanus's note upon thefe kind of Trees, after 

 he has enumerated the univerfal benefit of the Sali£tum : Nulli/^ 

 enim tutior r edit us, minor ifve impendii, aut tempejiatts fecurior. 



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