A Dijconrfe of Foreft-Trees. ±t» 



CHAP. XX. 



Of Fences J Qmck^fetSjlkc. 



i./^^Ur main F/4»?(«?7<7« is now fiuifli'd, and our F<7re/? adorn'd F«»ceA 



V^ with a juft variety : But what is yet all this labour,but lofs 

 of time^ and irreparable expence, unlefs our youngs and (as yet) 

 tender Tlants be fufficiently guarded from all external injuries ^ 

 for, as old2«/7erj 



3f( Cartel, 0? Conp map enter to crop, 

 ^ouns C)ak ij3 in Danger of loGng Ot0 top* 



But with fomething a more polifh'd/^/Ve, though to the fame pur- 

 pofe, the beft of Toets^ 



Texend^fepes etiam^ ^ pecus omne tenendum ei? .• 



Tr£cipue^ dumfrons tenera, imprudens^ laborum 5 



Cui^fuper indignoi hyemes^folem^ potentem, 



Syhejires Viri ajfidu}, capre<e^Jequaces 



Illudunt : Pafcuntur Oves^ avid£^juvenc£, 



f rigor a nee tantum cana concretapruina^ 



Aut gravis incttmbens fcopnlk arentibus <ejfas 



^antumillinocueregreges, durijj venenunt 



Dentjs^ d^ adfnorfajtgnata injiirpe cicatrix. 



Ceorg. I. 

 2. For the reafon that (b many complain of the improfperous 

 condition oi their fVood-lands, and Plantations oil thiskmd, pro- 

 ceeds from this negle£f ^ though (s^eep excepted) there is no im- 

 ployment whatfoever incident to the Farmer, which requires lefi 

 expence to gratifie their expeftations ; One diligent, and skilful 

 Man will govern^W hundred Acres : But if through any accident 

 a IBea^ (hall break into his Afajiers field ; or the wicked Hunters 

 make a gap for his dogs and horjes^ what a clamor is there made for 

 the difturbance of a years Crop at moft in a little Corn .<=" whiles 

 abandoning his young Woods all this time , and perhaps many 

 years, to the venomous bitings and treading of Cattel, and other 

 like injuries (for want of due care) the detriment is many times 

 irreparable : Young Trees once cropp'd hardly ever recovering : 

 It is the bane of all our moft hopeful Timber. But Ihall I provoke 3. 

 you by an infiance ? A Kins-man of mine has a Wood of more then 

 60 years ftanding 5 it was , before he purchas'd it, expos'd and 

 abandon'd to the Cattel for divers years : fbme of the outward 

 (kirts were nothing fave fin-ubs and ir\\(txdh\efiarvlings } yet ftill 

 the place had a difpofition to grow rvoody ^ but by this negled 

 continually fupprefs'd. The induftrious Gentleman has Fenced in 

 fome^trej-of this, and cut allclofe to the ground ; it is come in 

 eight or nine years to be better worth then the v^ood o^ffxty j 



and 



