New Principles of Gardening. 
fently rotten and ufelefs. Fourthly, For Pzrzug « Of which the City 
of London deftroys many thoufand Loads every Year, being cleav’d 
into Billets for that purpofe. And befides all this, ’tis of pro- 
digious great Ufe in many other Services, as to Furuers, ‘Uphol- 
fters, &c. which to mention here isneedlefs, fince’tis well known 
to all our Country Workmen in general. 
This Tree is propagated from its Seed, call’d Ma/f?, which 
mu{t be gather’d about the middle of September, when it will 
begin to fall; and when gather’d, and well dried, it mutt 
afterwards be preferved in Sand till anuary, then fowed in 
the Seed-Bed, and order’d in every Refpett as the Ozk, with 
whom it greatly delights to grow. 
’Tis obferved that the Land it delights moftly in, is Mountains, 
chalky Hills, &c. as before defcrib’d. 
The Diftance that thefe Trees are to be planted from each 
other, fhould be never lefs than forty Foot: It makes a ftately 
Tree, and well deferves to be planted in our Avenues, inftead 
of thofe ufelefs Trees, the Lime and Dutch Elm. 
Thefe Trees when planted young, at about two Feet apart, and 
fuffer’d to throw. out their Side-Shoots, makes very beautiful 
Hedges in Gardens, Wildernefs, &c. 
When this Tree is intended to be propagated on poor Lands, 
tis beft to fow the Maft, rather than plant the Tree from the 
Nurfery, as is before faid of the Oak. 
When @er you plant, through Qaks your Beech defu/fe + 
The hard Male Oak, and lofty Cerrug chufe: 
While Efculus of the Maft bearing kind, 
Chief im Ilicean Groves we always find: 
For it affords a far extending Shade ; 
Of one of thefe fometimes a Wood ts made. 
They ftand unremoved, though Winters do affail, 
Nor more can Winds, or Rain, or Storms prevail. 
To their own Race they ever are inclind, 
And Love with their Alfociates to be join’d. — 
When Fleets are rigg’d, and we to fight prepare, 
They yield us Plank, and furnifb Arms for War, 
Fuel to Fire, to Ploughmen Plows they give, 
To other Ufes we may them derive. 
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