A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. 93 



great neceffity urge you , as it did DHiUuf^ who in the Phujc War 

 built his Fleet of Timber before it wasfeajond , being not above 

 two moneths from the very Felling to the Launching : and as 

 were alfo thofe 2V^z';>j' of H/^»'<? after forty days 5 and that of 5«- 

 pio^ in the third Carthaginem War, from the very Fore§i to the Sea, 

 July is a good time for bringing home y out fell'a Timber. 



90. To make excellent Boards and Planks, *tis the advice of 

 fome, you (hould Barkyoxiv Trees in a fit (eafon, and (b let them 

 ftand naked a. full year before the felling j and in fome cSfes, and 

 grounds, it may be profitable : But let thefe, with what has been 

 already laid in the foregoing Chapters of the feveral kinds, fuffice 

 for this Article : I (hall add one Advertifement oi Caution to thofe 

 Noble perfons, and others who have Groves and Trees of orna* 

 ment neer their houfes, and in their Gardens in London, and the 

 Circle of it 5 e^ecially , if they be of great fiature , and well 

 grown •■) fuch as are the Groves in the feveral Inns of Court 5 nay, 

 even that (comparatively, new Plantation) in my Lord of Bed^ 

 fords Garden, &c. and wherever they ftand in the more interiouv 

 parts of the City ^ that they be not over hafty, or by any means 

 perfwaded to cut down any of their old Trees, upon hope of new, 

 more flourilhing Plantations 5 thickning, or repairing deformi- 

 ties 5 bccaufe they grow fo well when firft they were ftt : It is to 

 be confider'd how exceedingly that perniciousjw/o^^^of the Sea-taal 

 is increas'd in and about London fince they were fiviii planted, and 

 the buildings environing them, andinclofing it in amongft them, 

 which doesfouniverfally contaminate the Air, that what Planta- 

 tions of Trees (hall be now begun in any of thofe places will have 

 much ado, great difficulty, and require a long time, to be brought 

 to any tolerable perfection ; Therefore let them make much of 

 what they have ; and though I difcourage none, yet I can animate 

 none to cut down the old. 



CHAP. XXX. 

 Of Timber the Seafoning and \\(qs^ and of Fuel. 



WE have before (poken concerning fome preparations o£ Seafonm 

 j?tf»^z»g Tree/ defign'd for T/wkr, by a half-cutting, dif- 

 barking, and the feafons of <^r4W7»g, and»/»^it. 



1. Lay up your Timber very dry, in an airy place (yet out of 

 ihcWtnd, 01 Sun) ^viA not ftanding upright, but lying along one 

 piece upon another, interpofing fome ihoxt blocks between them, 

 to preferve them from a certain mouldinef which they ufually * 

 contraft while theyfweat, and which frequently produces a kind 

 oi fungus, efpecially if there be any fappy parts remaining. 



2. Some there are yet, who keep their 7z«//'er as moift as they 

 can, by fubmergingk in IFater, where they let it imbibe to hinder 



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