^2 A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trccs. 



Fines. 2. The Titie is likcwife of both Sexes ^ whereof the Male 



growing lower, hath its tpoocI more knotty and rude then the 

 Female. They \<^ould be gather'd in jf»»e before they gape, and 

 Ctrltivated like the Fir m moft refpefts 3 only, you may bury the 

 Hulls a little deeper. By a friend of mine they were rolled in a 

 fine compo^ made of Sheep t-dttng, and fcatter'd in Fehrnary, and 

 this way nfever fail'd 5 ¥0' and Pine 5 they came to be above Inch 

 high by ^rf;'-" this were an expeditious pr<?fe/? for great Plant at i^ 

 iHs : unlefs you would rather fet the Pine as they do Peafe j but 

 at wfder diftances, that whtn there is occafion of removal, they 

 might be taken up with earth and all i becaufe they are (of all 

 oihet Trees) the moft obnoxious to mifcarry without this caution 5 

 and therefore it were much better (where the Nuts might be com- 

 modioufly fet, and defended") never to remove them at all, it gives 

 this Tree lb confiderable a check. 



4. I am affur'd (by a perfon moft worthy of credit) that in the 

 t^ritory of Al%ey (a Country in Germany^ where they were mi- 

 ftrably diftreffed for ^otff/, which they had fo deftroy'd as that 

 they were reduced to make ufe of Stravp for their beft Fuel) a 

 Verf large Trdii beihg newly plowed, but the Wars furprizing 

 them, not fuffer'd to fow , there fprung up the next year a whole 

 Foreft of Pine-trees^ of which Ibrt of IVood there was none at all 

 within lefs then fonrfcore miles 5 fo as 'tis verily conjeftur'd by 

 fome, they might be wafted thither from the Country of Wejira- 

 fta^ which is the neereft part to that where they grow : If this 



be true, we are no more to wonder, how, when our Oak^vpoadt 

 are grubb'd up. Beech and Trees of other kinds have fre- 

 quently fucceeded them : What fome impetuous Winds have 

 done in this nature I could produce inftances almoft miraculous : ■ 

 I ftiall fay nothing of the opinion of our Mafter Varro, and the 

 learned Theophrafitii , who were both of a faith that the feeds 

 of Plants drop'd out of the Air : Pliny in his 16. Book.^ Chap. 33* 

 upon difcourfe of the Cretan Cypreji^ attributes much to the indoles 

 and nature of the foil, virtue of the Climate, and Imprejjions of 

 the Air : And ihdeed it is very ftrange what is affirmed of that 

 Pitchy-rain, repdrted to have fallen about C^re«c, the year 430. 

 U. C. after which, in a ftiort time fprung up a whole wood of the 

 Trees of Lajerpitium, producing a precious Gum not much infe- 

 riour to Ben%oih, if at leaft thejiory he warrantble .• But of thefe 

 Aerial irradiations, yzt'ions conceptions znd equivocal ^iod\x^ions 

 withouty^e^^, €^c. upon another occafion, if life and leifure per- 

 mit me to finifh what has been long under the hand, and file to 

 gratifie our Horticultores : This prefent Treatije being but an im- 

 iperfecl limb of that more ample Wori{. 



5. In tranfplanting of thefe i?e/M?^re<!>*!f, and C(>«//er(?*!f Trees, 

 you muft never diminifh their heads, nor be at all bufie with 

 tht'ir roots, which pierce deep, and is all their foundation, unleft 

 you find any of them bruifed, or much broken : Neither may 

 you dif branch them, bufwith great caution, as about March or 

 before, orelle in September^ when I advifeyou to rub over their 



wounds 



