50 A Difconrfe of Forcft-Trees. 



of it ^ and it being cafily multiplied, why ftiould it not make one 

 of the beft and moft ornamental Fences in the world for our 

 C<trdc»s^ wirhits nAtmal palifados, as well as the more tender, 

 and impatient of moifture the j4loef does for their Vineyards in 

 Langnedoc^ &c. but We believe nothing improvable^ fave what our 

 Grand-fathers taught us. 



And thus, having accomplifli'd what (by your Commands J I 

 had to offer concerning the propagation of the more Solid^ Materi- 

 al, and ufeful Trees, as well the Dry, as Aquatical 'j and to the 

 beft of my talent fenced our Plantation in, I ihould here conclude^ 

 andfet a Bound likewifeto my Difcourfe, by making an jipologie 

 for the many errours and impertinencies of it ; did not the %eal^ 

 and ambition of this lUuBrious Society to promote and improve 

 all Attempts which may concern the Fublick^ ntility or Ornament^ 

 perfwade ilfe,that what I am adding for the farther encouragement 

 to the planting of fome other ufeful (though lefs Vulgar) Trees, 

 will at leaft obtain your pardon, if it mifs of your Approbation. 

 Fruit-Trees. !• To difcourfe in this Jiile of all fuch Fruit-trees as would 

 prove of greateft emolument to the whole Nation, were to defign 

 a juft Volume •■, and there are dire3ions already fo many, and fo 

 accurately deliver'd and publifi'd (but which cannot beaffirm'dof 

 any of the former Clajjes of Foreji-trees and other remarkes, at the 

 leaft to my poor knowledge and refearch) that it would be need- 

 left to Repeat. 



2. I do only with fupon the profoeft , and meditation of 

 the univerfal Benefit ) that every perfin whatfoever, worth tett 

 pounds per annum, within his Majefiies Dominions, were by 

 fome indifpenfable statute oblig'd to plant his Hedge-rows with the 

 beft and moft ufeful kinds of them j efpecially, in fuch places of 

 the Nation, as being the more in-land Counties, and remote from 

 the Seas and Navigable Rivers, might the better be excus'd from 

 the planting of Timber , to the proportion of thofe who are 

 more happily and commodioufly fituated for the tranf^ortati- 

 on of it. 



3. Undoubtedly,ifthiscourfe were taken efreftually,a very f<>«- 

 fiderable part both of the Meat and Dr/»4, which is fpent to our pre- 

 judice might be faved by the Countrey-people,even out of the Hedges 

 and Mounds, which would afford them not only the p/e^^re and 

 /»r<?^> of their delicious Fruit, but fuch abundance of Cider and 

 Ferry as fhould fuffice them to drinks of one of the moft wholefim 

 and excellent Beverages in the World. Old Gerard did long fincc 

 alled^ us an example worthy to be purfu'd ^ I havefeen({2i\th he, 

 fyes.kin2o£ Apple-Trees, Itb.:^. cap. 101. ") inthePadmes and Hedg- 

 rows about the Grounds of a Worjhipful Gentleman dwelling two 

 miles from Hereford, called M^ Roger Bodnome, fo many Trees of 

 al/ibns that the Servants drinks for the moft part no other drink^but 

 that which is made of Apples .' The quantity is fitch, that by the re- 

 port of the Gentleman himfelf the Parfon hath for Tythe many 

 HoeJJjeads of Cider •• The Hogs are fed with the fa/lings of them^ 

 which are fo many that they make choice of thofe Apples they do eat, 

 who will not tajie of any but of the beji. An Example doubtlefs to he 



followed 



