A Difconrfe of Foreft-Trees. 6y 



6. The timber of the Hol/j/ is for all fturdy ujes 5 the Mill- 

 Wright, Turner and Engraver prefer it to any other : It makes the 

 beft handles^ And flocks for Tools^ and of the Bark^ is compds*d our 

 Bird-lime. 



1. Of Juniper we have tnpojbrts, whereof e?«e is much taller, juniper, 

 and more fit for Improvement ; The wood is yellove^ andfipeet as 

 Cedar, whereof it is accounted a dwarfifi fort. 



2. I have rais'd them abundantly of \hevc feeds, which in two 

 m.oneths will peep, and being govern'd like the Cyprejje, apt for 

 all the employments of that beautiful Tree : The difcreet loofen- 

 ing of the Earth about the Roots alfo makes it ftrangely to prevent 

 your expedations by fuddenly fpreading into a bup fit for a thou- 

 fend pretty Employments ^ for coming to be much unlike that 

 which grows wild, and is fubjeft to the treading and cropping of 

 Cattle, (^c. it may be form'd into moft beautiful and ufeful 

 Hedges : My Brother having cut out of one onely Tree an Arbour 

 capable for three to fit in ; It was at my laft meafuring [even foot 

 fquare, and eleven in height ; and would certainly have been of 

 a much greater altitude and farther fpreading, were it not conti- 

 nually ke^tjhorn : But what is mofl confiderable is the little time 

 fince it was planted, being yet hardly ten years, and then it was 

 brought out of the Common a flender Buff) of about two foot highj 

 But I have experimented a proportionable improvement in my 

 own Garden, where I do mingle them with Cyprejfc, and they per- 

 feftly become their ftations. 



3. The Berries afford (befides a tolerable Pe/'per J one of the 

 moft univerfal Remedies in the world to our crazy Forefleir j and 

 the Coals, which are made of the IVood, endure the longeft of 

 any : If it arrive to full growth it is Timber for many curious 

 works '-, the very chips render a wholefbm perfume within doors, 

 as well as the dufly blojfoms in Spring without. 



1. But to Crown all, I will conclude with the Laurell, which Launt. 

 by the Vfe we commonly put it to, fecms as if it had been only 

 deflin'd for Hedges , and to cover bare Walls ^ whereas, being 

 planted upright, and kept to the Standard, by cutting away the 

 collateral Branches, and maintaining one jiem, it will rife to a ve- 

 ry confiderable Tree j and (for the firfl twenty years) refem- 

 bling the moft beautiful headed Orange in Jhape and verdure, ar- 

 rive in time to emulate even fome of our lufiry Timber-trees , fb 



as I dare pronounce the Laurel to be one of the moft' proper and 

 ornamental Trees for Wal^s and Avenues of any growing. 



2. Pity it is they are fo abus'd in the Hedges, where the lower 

 Branches growing Jiickie and dry , by reafon of their frequent 

 and unfeafonable cutting (with the genius of the Tree, which is 

 to fpend much in Wood) they never fucceed after the firft J/x or 

 feven years 5 but are to be new planted again, or abated to the 

 very Roots for a [reihpade. 



3. But would you yet improve the Standard which I celebrate, 

 to greater and more fpeedy exaltation ? bud your Laurel on the 

 Black:Cherry-jtock^to what height you pleafe; if at leaft the re- 



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