A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. ^i 



Suft rill they gape, or neer a gentle fire, by which vn^Ans the feedt 

 will be eafily Ihaken out 5 for if you have them open beforCj they 

 xio not yield you half their crop. 



About the beginning of yipril (or befoi*e , if the weather be 

 jhowerj/) prepare an even Bed, which being made of fine earthy 

 clap down with your Spade , as Gard'ners do for Purfelain-feed : 

 (of old they roU'd it with fome Stone or Cylinder) Upon this ftrew 

 your feeds pretty thick ; then fieft over them fome more mould for 

 almoft an inch in height : keep them duly rvatered after Sun-Jet^ 

 unlefs the feafon do it for you 5 and after one j/ears growth (for 

 they will be an inch high in little more then a Moneth) you may 

 tranjplant them where you pleafo. 



12. What the Vjes of this Timber are , for Cheffs and other 

 Vtenfils ; as heretofore for fupporters of Finer, Poles, Rails, and 

 Flanks, (refifting the Worm, Moth, and all putrefafliion to eter- 

 nity) the Venetians fufficiently underftand 3 who do every twenty 

 year, and oftner (the Romans every thirteen) make _^a confidera- 

 ble Revenue of it out of Candy : And certainly a very gainful 

 commodity it was, when the Fell of a Cyprefetum was heretofore re- 

 puted a good Daughters P<>r^ztf», and the F/<t«*<i*w«it felf call'd 

 DotemJih£. 



13. The Timber of this wood was of infinite efteem with the 

 Ancients : That lafting Bridge built over the Euphrates by Semi- 

 ramjs was made of this wood , and it is reported, Plato chofe it 

 to write his Laws in before Bra^ it felf, for the diuturnity of the 

 matter: It is certain, that it never «y>x, or i'/e^t/e/, but with great 

 violence '■> and the bitter nefo( its juice prefer ves it from all worms ^ 

 and putrifaction. To this day thofe of Creet, and Malta make 

 ufe of it for their buildings ; becaufe they have it in plenty, and 

 there is nothing out-lafts it : Finally, (not to forget even the very 

 chips of this precious wood, which gives that flavour to Mufca- 

 dines and other rich Wines) I commend it for the improvement 

 of the Air, as fending forth moft fweet, and aromatick^emiG\on$, 

 when ever it is either clipp'd, or handled : But, 



^id tibi odorato refer am Judantia ligfto, 

 if I forget 



The Cedar .<? which grows in all extr earns: In the moift Barbados^ ^^ 

 the hot Bermudas, the cold New England 5 even where the Snow Cedar. 

 lyes (as I am aiVur'd) almoft half the year .• Why then it fhould 

 not thrive in Old England, I conceive is from our want of indn- 

 Jiry : It grows in the Bogs o( America, and in the Mountains of 

 Aiia : It leems there is no place affrights it 5 and I have frequent- 

 ly rais'd it oi the feeds, which I fet like the Bay-berries ^ and we ^, 

 might have of the very besi kind in the World from the Summer 

 Ijlands, though now almoft utterly exhaufted there alfo, and fo 

 the moft incomparable of that facred wood like to be quite de- 

 Jiroy'd by our Negligence, which is by nature almoft eternal : 



3. Thus I reade that in the Temple of Apollo at Vtica there was 

 found Timber of neer two thoufand years old 5 and in Sagunti of 

 Spain a beam in a certain Oratory confecrated to Diana, which bad 



been 



