A Difcourfe of Forefi-T^ecs. ^5 



rvonnds with a mixture of Cow-dung 5 the negleft of tbis coft me 

 dear, fo apt are they to fpend their Oum. 



6. Some advife us to break, the (hells of Fines to faeilitate their ' 

 delivery^ and I have effay*d it 5 but to my loft 5 Nature does ob' 



jietricate^ and do that ofhceof her ielf when it is the beft feafon^ 

 neither does this preparation at all prevent thole which are fb bu- 

 ried, whiles their hard Integuments protect them both from rotting, 

 and the Vermine. 



7. The domeflic Fine grows very well with us 5 but the Fina- Finafitri 

 Jier or wilder beft for Walks ^ becaufe it grows tall, and proud, 

 maintaining their branches at the fides, which the Fine does lefi 

 frequently. 



8. The fir grows talleft being planted reafonable clofe toge- 

 ther '^ but fuffers nothing to thrive under them. The Tim not fo 

 inhabitable ^ for (by Flinies good leave) it may be fown with any 

 Tree, all things growing well under its P)adei and excellent ki 

 Woods, hence Claudian, 



Et com it em quercum Finus arnica trahit* 



9. They both affeft the cold, high and rockie grounds } yet 

 will grow in better j but not in over rich, and pinguid. The 

 worft land in Wales bears (as I am told) large Fine 5 and the Fir 

 according to his afpiring nature , loves alfo the Mountain mDre 

 then the Valley 5 though they will alio defcend, and fucceed very 

 well in either 5 being delirous of plentiful waterings till ?they ar- 

 rive to feme competent ^4t«re , and therefore they do not pro- 

 fper fo well in an o\er fandy, and hungry foil, or gravel, as in the 

 very entrails of the Rock/, which afford more drink.to the Roots, 

 that penetrate into their meanders, and winding receffes. But 

 though they require this rejhjhing at firft 5 yet do they perfeftly 

 zhhov aWJiercorationj nor will they much endure to have the 

 earth open'd about their roots for Ablaqneation, or be difturb'd. 

 This is alfo to be underftood of Cypre^. A Fir for the firft half 

 dozen years feems to ftand, or at leaft make no confiderable ad- 

 vance; but it is when throughly rooted, that it comes away mi- 

 raculoufly. That Honourable Knight Sir Norton Knatchbull 

 (whofe ddiciousFlantationo^ Fines, and F/rx I beheld with great 

 fatisfaftion) having aflur'd me that a Fir-tree of his raifing, did 

 fhoot nolefs then 60 foot in height in little more then twenty years, 

 is a pregnant inftance, as of the fpeedy growing of that material:, 

 fo of all the encouragement I have already given for the more fre- 

 quent cultivating this ornamental, ufeful and profitable Tree. 



10. The Ficea is another Ibrt of Fine, and to be cultivated I'ttchi 

 like it 



'Fice£tantHm, taxi^ nocentes 



' •--— '" 3 jf 



Inter dum, ant eder£ pandnnt Ve^igia nigra. 



Ceorg. 2. 

 to (hew in what unprofitable foils they grow j And therefore i 



am 



