A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees* 6<^ 



2. Tht Turner^ Ingravtr^ Mathematical-InjirHment^ Comb and 

 Pipe-makers give great prizes for it by tveight, as well as meafure > 

 and by the feafomngy and divefs manner of cutting, vigorous infi- 

 latiotis, foliture and grinding^ the Roots of this Tree (as of even 

 QUr common, and negleded Thome) do furnifh the InUyer and 

 Caiinet-mak^rs with pieces rarely uudulated, and full of variety; 

 . 3. The Chymteal oyl of this wood has done the feats of the beft 

 Gtfajacum (though in greater quantity) for the cure of Venereal 

 difeafeSj as one of the moft expert FbyfitiaMs jn Europe has confefs'd. 



1. Since the ufe of JdWJ is laid afide amongft us, the propaga- E»g6. 

 tio(iofthe£»^i&-*recis likewifequite forborne but the negleft of 



it is to'be deplor'd 5 feeing that (befides the rarity of it in Italy ^ 

 and France, where but little of it grows) the barreneft grounds, 

 and coldeft of our mountains (for 



• Aquilonem €^ fiigora taxi) might be profitably 



repleni(h*d with them : I (ay, profitably, for, befides the ufe of 

 the wood for Bows 



>Ityreostaxi torquentur in arcus. The foremen- 



tion'd ArtiUs in Box moft gladly impjoy it : And for the cogs of 

 Mills, foils to be fet in moift grounds, and everlafting Axle-trees, 

 there is none to be compar'd with it, likewife for the bodies of 

 LAtes , iheorboi, &c. yea, and for Tankards to drink out of^^ 

 whatever ?liny report of its Jliade, and fatal ^«/* in Spain, FtOfte^^ 

 zrid Arcadia. ; ;. * 



2. The /^Jjf/V quality was certainly in the liqvor which thofe 

 good FvUovps tippld out of thofe bottles, not iin the nature of thtf 

 wood.--^ which yet he affirms is cur'd of that Venenom quality by- 

 driving a hra%en veedge into the body of it : This I have never 

 tri'd, but that of thcj&4£/e and fiuit I have frequently, without 

 any deadly, or noxious efFefts : fo that I am of opinio^ that Tree^. 

 which Sefiius calls Smilax, and our HiSiorian thinks»-to be eur 

 Ehgh, was fome other Wood, ^ *■ y 



9. ThisTreeiseafily produc'dofthejee^/, wafti'dand cleans'd 

 from their mucilage ; and hurried in the ground like Havos ^ It *' 

 will commonly be the fecond Winter ere they peep, and then* 

 they rife with their caps on their heads : Being three years old vou 

 may tran^lant them , and form them into Standards , Knobs, 

 Walkfi Hedges, &c. in all which workg they fiicceed mSrVelloi^ 

 well, and are worth our patience for theiFperewwa/t/er^wre, aHa " 

 durablenef. 



4. He that in Winter (hould behold fe)meof our higheft Hil/s in 

 Surrey clad with whole Woods of thefe two laft fort of Trees, for 

 divers Afiles in circuit, (as in thofe delicious Groves o^ t\\tv£\, be- ■'' 

 longing to the Honourable my noble friend Sir Adam Brown of 

 Bech-tPorth-Calfle, from Box-hill, and neer our fainous Mole or 

 Swallow) might without the leaft violence to his Imagination, eafi- 

 ly phanfiehimfelf tranfported into fome new or enchanted C<7«»- 

 try ^ for, if in myj^ot of England, 



, Htc ver perpetmtm, atque alienk men^bus dflas. 



L 'tis 



