A Difcoitrfe of Forc/l-Trees. lot 



eiccefllve age, requiring thrice the time to arrive at their ftature. 



1 6. If the yerfy^*/; require it, all new Plantations are to be plied 

 with waterings, which is better pour'd into a circle at fbme di- 

 ftance from the Roots, th:it percolating through a quantity of earth 

 it may carry the nitrous virtue of the foil with it 5 and by no 

 means at the jiem 5 becaufe it wafhes the mould from the Root, 

 comes too crude, and endangers their rotting : But, 



17. For the cooling, and refrefliing Tree-r^*?^/, thecongeftin^ 

 of Flints, or Pibbles neer three foot of the/ife«?, is preferable to all 

 other i and fo the Poet, 



Aut lapidem bibnlufM, aut fqUallentets infode conchas. 

 Inter enim labentur aqn<e, tenuifquejitbibit 

 Halit/fs Ceorg. 2. 



18. Cut no Trees when either heat, or cold are in extreams ^ 

 nor in very rvet, or fnowy weather ; and in this work it is pro-' 

 fitable to difcharge all Trees of unthriving,broaken,wind-ftiaken, 

 brovpfi, and fuch as our Lave terms Cablicia, and to take them off 

 to the quick, 



ne parsjincera ti-ahatuf. 



Many more ufeful Obfervations are to be colleded , and added 

 to thefc, from the diligent experience of Planters, 



CHAP. XXXII. 



Of the Laws and Statutes for the Prefervation, and | 

 Improvement of Woods, c^c. 



I. '' I ^O letpafs the Laws, and civil Conjlitutions o( great An- 

 1 tiquity, by which -S^erz;/^ informs us *t was no lefs then 

 Capital , alienas arbores incidere , the lex Aquilia. , and thofe 

 of the xii. Tabb. mention'd by Paulus, Cajus, Julianus and others / ^ 



of that Robe repeated divers more. The wife Solon prefcribed ■'^tj'L.. A 



Ordinances for fhe' very dijiances of Trees i as the divine Plato 'v»n.<o^J: 



did againfl- ftealing of fruit, and violating of Plantations : And 

 the interdiftion de Glande legenda runs thus in Vlpian, AIT PRJE- 

 TOR, GLANDEM, gtVM EX ILLIVS AGRO IN TWM CA- 

 DIT, giVO MINVS ILLI TERIIO ^Og^VE DIE LEGERE 

 AVFERRE LICEAT, VIM FIERI VE'IO. but it is not here that 

 I dehgn to enlarge, as thofe who h^ve philologiz^d on this occa- 

 fion de Sycophantis, a^id other curious Criticijmes t, but pafs on, 

 andconhne my felf to the prudent SanHions of our own Parlia- 

 ments, which I deduce in this Or<^er. 



2. From the tiche of Edward the fourth, were enafted many 



Q_ 2 excel- 



-ru/Z 



