1 1 J. A Difcourfe of Forcft-Trecs. 



fall t, that the ftiowers and dews faftning the Seed where the wind 

 drives it, it may take root, and haften(as it will) to a fuddea 

 Trecj efpecially, if feafonable fl^reading beappli'd, which has 

 fometimes made them arrive to the height of twelve foot by the 

 firft three years , after which they grow a main. And if fuch 

 were planted as necr to one another as in the Examples we have 

 alledg'd, it is ahnoft incredible what :i fating they would be to 

 our mo(t expos'd F/rf«^<T^;>»/ mounting up their wooden vpalh to 

 the clouds : And indeed the fhelving and natural declivity of the 

 GroHtid more or lefs to our unkind JJpeSt, and bleak Wittdi does 

 beft direft to the thickning of thefe proteftions , and the benefit 

 of^/i^^foon appear, and recompenceour induftry in thefmooth- 

 neisand integrity of the Plantations fo defended. 



11. That great care be had of the -Sec^^/ which we intend to low 

 has been already advifed ; for it has been feen that Woods of the 

 fame age5planted in the {amefiil dilcover a vifible difference in the 

 Timber and growth -j and where this variety (hould happen if not 

 from theyee<5^ will be hard to interpret j therefore let the/Z^ce, 7^'/ 

 ^nd growth of fuch Trees from whence you have your feeds be dili- 

 gently examin'd j and why not this, as well as in our care ofAm- 

 mals for our breed and ftore ? 



12. As to the Form, obey the natural j?^c, and fubmit to the 

 feveral guizes ^ but ever declining to enclofeH/^A-o'^^/ zndi Com- 

 mon-roads as much as pofTible. For the reft, be pleafed to re- 

 fledt on what we have already faid to encourage the planting of the 

 large fpreading 0<?/Labove all that j|)e<:/ex; the amplitudeofthe J/- 

 ^iance which they require refign'd to the care of the Ferderer for 



. grazing C<«^^/e, Deer^d^c. and for the great, and mafculine beauty 

 which a wild ^incunx, as it were, of fuch Trees would prefent 

 to your eye. 



13. But to advance his Majeiiies Forejis to this height of per- 

 feftion, I fhould again urge the removal of fbme of our mofi: mis- 

 chievous plac'd Iron-mills i if that at leaft be true which fome 

 have afhrm'd, that we had better Iron,at)d cheaper from Foreigners 

 when thofe Workj were {grangers amongft us. I am inform'd that 

 the Netv-EngliJI} (who are now become very numerous, and 

 hindred in their advance and profpeft of the Continent by their 

 fulfeit of the Woods which we want) did about twelve years fince 

 begin to clear their High-vpays by two Iron-mills : lamfure their 

 zeal has fafficiently wafted our ftately Woods, and Steel in the 

 bowels of their Mother old England-^ and 'twere now but expedi- 

 ent their Brethren (hould haftcn thither to fupply us with Iron for 

 the peace of our days ^ whilft His Majefty becomes the great So- 

 vereign of the Ocean, free Commerce, Nemort/m Vindex & Infi aura- 

 tor magnui. This were the only way to render both our Coun- 

 tries Art/>it^/,/e indeed, and the fitteftj^fr;/rc for \hcRoyal-Oahs,7ixA 

 their Hamadryad's to whom they ow more then a flight fubmiffion. 



14. Another thing to be recommended ( and which would 

 prove no lefs then thirty years, in fome places forty, and general- 

 ly twenty years advance^ were a good, (if well executed aU) to 



fave 



