A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. ^3 



and whiles the (hoots are tender 5 thus will it form an hedge 

 (though planted but in fingle rows and at two foot diftance) of a 

 yard in thicknefs, twenty foot high (if you defire it) and furnith'd 

 to the bottom : But for an hedge of this altitude, it would re- 

 quire the friendftiip of fome Wall^ or a Frame of lufty foles^ to 

 fecure againft the Winds one of the mofl: delicious objefts in na- 

 ture : But if we could have ftore of the Fhillyrea folio leviterfer- 

 rato (o( which. I have rais'd fome very fine Plants from the feeds) 

 we might fear no vpeather, and the verdure is incomparable. 



I. The culture of the Granade does little differ from that Granade. 

 of the Alaternus , of which we might raife confiderable hedges 

 on all our Southern M^^dis : They have fupported thislaftmoft 

 unmerciful Winter without any artifice 5 and if they yield us their 

 fioTcers for our pains of weWfruning (for they muft diligently be 

 purged of their wood) it is a glorious recompence : I plant them 

 in my Hedge-rows even amongfl: the ^ick- 



1. Tiie vulgar //4//d» wild il/yr/// (though not indeed the moft Mjrtil. 

 jragrant) grows high, and Supports all weathers, I know of one 

 neerfifty years old, which has been continually expos'd :, unlefs 



it be, that in fome exceeding y^i^rp feafons a little /^r<?u' has been 

 thrown upon it i and where they arejhtitten, being cut down 

 neer the ground, they put forth and recover again ^ which many 

 times they do not in Pots^ and Cajes, where the roots are very ob- 

 noxious to perifti with mouldinef. The (helter of a few Mats^ 

 and StratVy (ecur'd very great Trees (both leaf and colour in per- 

 feftion) this laft Winter alfo, which were planted abroad , whiles 

 thofe that were carried into the Conferve were mofl: of them lofl:. 

 Myrtils may be rais'd o£ feeds, but with great caution J and they 

 feldom prove hardy, nor is it worth the time being fo abundantly 

 encreafed of Layers : But, 



2. I produce not thefe particulars, and other antcenaviret a al- 

 ready mention' 6, as fignifying any thing to Tirw^er, the main de- 

 fign of this Treatife (though I reade of fome fo taU, as to make 

 make Spear fiafts ) but to exemplifie in what may be farther 

 added to Ornament and Pleafure by a cheap, and moft agreeable 

 indufiry. 



The common white and yellow Jafmine would flower plenti- Jifmlm, 

 fully in our Woods, and is as hardy as any of the Periclimena-^ 

 (how it is propagated hyfubmerjion^ov layers,every Gard'ner skills ^ 

 and if it were as much imploy'd for Noje-gays, d^c. with us, as it is 

 inFranceanA Italy, they might make /»<7»e;' enough of the F/<7n?- 

 ers : One forty tree in Paris, where they abound, has been worth 

 to a poor woman neer twenty (hillings in a year. 



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