A Difcourfe of Forcft-Trees. 



The jijpine, good £or Jiaves 5 the C/pre/ffuneral : 

 The Laurel, meede of mighty Conquerours 

 And Poets fage , the Fir, that weepeth ftill 5 

 The fVil/ojv, worn of forlorne Paramours ; 

 The E»gh, obedient to the benders will 5 

 The Birch for fhafts ^ the Sal/ovp for the Mill 3 

 The Myrrhe fweet bleeding in the bitter wound 3 

 The war-like Beech 3 the .Ajh for nothing ill 3 

 The fruitful Olive, and the Tlatane round 3 

 The Carver Holm 3 the Maple, feldom inward found. 



Canto. I, 

 And in this Symphony might the noble Tajfo bear likewife his part 3 

 but that thefe are fufficient, d^ tria funt omnia. What now re- 

 mains concerns only fome general Pr£cepts, and Direlfions appli- 

 cable to moft of that we have formerly touched 3 together with 

 a Brief oi what farther Lavps have been enaded for the Improve- 

 ment, and prefervation of Woods 3 and which having dilpatch'd, 

 (hall with a (hort Paranejis touching the prefent ordering, and dif^ 

 pofing of his Maje^ies Plantations for the future benefit of the N<«- 

 tion, put an end to this ruftick Difcourfe. 



X05 



CHAP. XXXI. 



Aphorifms, or certain general Praecepts of nfe to the 

 foregoing C!hapters. 



I. '"TT^Ry all forts of Seeds, and by their thriving you fliall beft 

 X difcern what are the moft proper ki»ds for Grounds, 



grippe Jblo naturaJitbeU • 



and of thefe defign the main of your Plantation. 



2. Keep your newly {own Jeeds continually frelh, and in the 

 JhadeQsis much as may bej till they peep, 



5.' KM curious feeds, and plants are diligently to be xveeded till 

 they are ftrong enough to over-drop or fupprefs them : And you 

 fliall carefully haw , half-dig, and ftir up the earth about their 

 Roots during the firft three years 3 efpecially in the Vernal, and 

 Autumnal Mc^uinoxes : This work to be done in a moiU feafon for 

 the/ri? year to prevent the dufi, and the fuffocating of the tender 

 buds 3 but afterwards in the more dry weather. 



4. Plants rais'd from feed, {hall be thinn'd where they come up 

 too thickji and norie fo fit as you thus draw to be ttan^lanted into 

 Hedge-rows 3 efpecially, where ground is precious. 



5. In transplanting, omit not the placing of your Trees towards 

 their accuflom'd AJpeCf. 



6. Remove xhejofteii wood to the moijiefi grounds, 



Q, , Divife 



