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Lordjhip : Thefe Trees are now of that fiature^ and fo likely to 

 prove excellent Timber^ that they are already judg'd to be almoft 

 as much worth as the whole Demefites 5 and yet they take of no- 

 tliing from other frtT^jfj-, having been difcreetlydifpos'dof atthe 

 firft deftgnment. The Prince Ele£for Fredric I V, in the^e^r 160^, 

 fow'd a part of that moffc barren Heath oi Lambertheim with 

 Acorns after phrpwg^ as I have been inform'd 5 it is now likely to 

 prove a moft goodly Foreji , though all this while miferably neg- 

 ledtcd by reafon of the Wars. 



The Right Honorable my Lord Vifcount Monntague has planted 

 many thoufands of Odks^ which I am told he draws out oiCoffes^ 

 big enough to defend themlelves '■, and that with fuch fuccefs as has 

 exceedingly improv'd his fojjejjiom j and it is a worthy example. 

 To conclude, I can (hew an Avenue planted to a houfe ftanding in 

 a barren ?ark^ the foil a cold Clay 5 it confifts totally of Oaks^ one 

 hundred in number ; The/»er/o« who firfl: (et them fdying very 

 lately) lived to fee them fpread their branches 123 foot in com- 

 pafsj which at diftanceof 24 foot mingling their fbady trejesfox: 

 above 1000 in length, form themfelves into one of the moft ve- 

 nerable and ftately ArboMr-Walks that in my life I ever beheld : 

 This is at Baynards in Surrey, and belonging to my moft honour'd 

 Brother Cbecaufe a moft induftrious Planter of woodj Richard 

 Evelyn Efq. The Walk is broad 56 foot, and one Tree with ano- 

 ther containing by eftimation three quarters of a load of Timber 

 in each Tree, and in their lops three Cord of fire-wood ; Their 

 bodies are not of the talleft, having been topped when they were 

 young to reduce them to an uniform height 5 yet is the Timber 

 moft excellent for its fcantling, and for their heads few in England 

 excelling them : where fome of their contemporaries were planted 

 lingle in the Vark^ without cumber^ they fpread above fourfcore 

 foot in arms. 



22. I have produced thefe Examples becaule they are conspi- 

 cuous, full of encouragement, worthy our imitation ; and that from 

 thefe, and fundry others which I might enumerate , we have 

 made this obfervation, that almoft anyjo// is proper for fome pro- 

 fitable Tiw^r-^ree/ or other which is good for very little elfe. 



23. The bottoms o^ Downs and like places well /jW^, and 

 foven will bear lufty Ti»//'er, hemg broken up, and let lye till ^/<^- 

 fummer, and thenjiirr'd again before fomng about November : fo 

 likewife in moft craggy, uneven, cold and expofed places, not fit 

 (ox Arable, as mBifiay, ^c. And it is truly from thefe Indicati- 

 ons, more then from any other whatfoever, that a broken, and 

 decaying Farmer is to be diftinguifti'd from a fubftantial Free- 

 holder , the very Trees fpeaking the conditions of the Majier : let 

 not then the Royal Patrimony bear a Bankrupts reproach ; But to 

 defcend vet lower ; 



24. Had every -^rre but three, ox four Trees, and as many of 

 Fruit in it as would a little adorn the Hedge-rorvs, the Improve- 

 ment would be of fair advantage in a few years ^ for it is a ftiamc 

 that Turnep-planters (hould demolilh and undo hedge-roros necr 



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