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A Dffi(^ff^fc of Forcfi-Trecs. 



and will (in time) prove mod incomparable Timber, whiles the 

 other part fo many years advanc'd^ {hall never recovery and all 

 thfs from no other caufi, then preferving kfenc'd : Judge then by 

 tbff how our Woods come to be fo decried : Are five hundred 

 sheep worthy the care of a Shepherd .<? and are not five thoufand 

 Oaks worth the Fencing, and the infpedion of a Hayvpard^ 



Et dubitant homines ferere, at^ impendere cur am .<" 



Let us therefore j&»^ up what we have thus laborioufly/^/^wf^^, 

 with fome good ^ickrfet hedge. 

 &!<ickJcts. !• The Whitc-thorne which is the befl: for Fencing, is either 

 rais'd of Seeds or Tlants 5 but then it muft not be with dejpair, 

 becaufe fometimes you do not fee them peep the firji year , for 

 the Haw, and many othery?^^/, being inverted with a very hard 

 Integument, will now and then fufFer imprifonment two whole 

 years under the earth , and impatience of this does often fru- 

 ftrate the expectation of the rejitrreition oi' divers feeds of this na- 

 ture 5 fo as we frequently dig up, and difturb the beds where 

 they have been forvn, in dej^air, before they have gone their full 

 time 5 which is alfo the reafbn of a. very popular miftake in other 



2. feeds : efpecially, that of the Hol/y, concerning which there goes 

 a tradition, that they will not fprout till they be pafs'd through 

 the MavD of a Thrujh ; whence the faying, Turdus exitium fuum cs- 

 cat (alluding to the Vifcuf made thereof, not the MijUeto of Oak^y 

 but this is an errour, as I am able to teftifie on experience 5 they 

 come up very well of the Berries, and patience j for (as I afhrm'd) 

 they wWl Jleep fometimes two entire years in their Graves ^ as will 

 alio the feeds of Ten', Sloes, Phjilerea^anguJiifoUa, a.nd{ar\dry others^ 

 whofe fi}clls are very hard about the fmall kernels 5 but which h 

 wonderfully facilitated, by being (as we diredted) prepar'd in 

 beds, and magazines of earth or find for a competent time, and 

 then committed to the ground before the /«//in March, by which 

 feajon they will be chitting, and fpeedily take root : Others bury 

 them deep in the ground all Winter, and fow them in Februarji ; 

 And thus I have been told of a Gentleman who has confiderably 

 improv'd his Revenue, by fowing Harps only, and raifmp Nnrferiei 

 of ^ickrfets, which he fells by the hundred far and neer : T}»:s 

 is a commendable indujirj/ j any neglcftcd corners uf groand will 



S' fit this Plantation : But Columella has another expedient tor the 

 raifing of our jpinetum, by rubbing the now m?ture Hips and 

 Harps into the crevices of baf -ropes, and then burying them in a 

 trench : whether way you attempt it, they muft (fo foon as they 

 peep, and as long as they require it) be feduloufly cleans'd of the 

 TPeeds -J which, if in beds (or tranjplantation, had need be at the 

 leaft three or (onr year j by which time, even your feedlings v/ill 

 be o(Jiature tir to remove ; for I do by no means approve of the 

 vxd^iXprtzntAture planting of /e^x, as is generally us'd throughout 

 England , which is to take fuchonly as are the very fmalleji, and 

 fo to crowd them into three or (our files, which are both egregi- 

 ous mi slakes. * Where- 



