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A DISCOURSE 



BOOK I. roots, and pitch them, as it seems we did even here in Britain, as well as 

 ^^-^"V"^ the Veneti, making use of the Willow : Whereof Liican, 



Primum cana salix madefacto vimine parvam 

 Texitur in puppim, caesoqile induta juvenco, 

 Vectoris patiens, tumidum superemicat aranenl. 

 Sic Venetus, stagnante Pado, fusoque Britannus 

 Navigat Oceano.— — — ' 



When Sicoris to his own banks restor'd. 



Had quit the field, of twigs and willow-board 



They build small craft, cover'd with bullocks' hide, 



In which they reach'd the river's farther side : 



So sail the Veneti, if Padus flow ; 



The Britons sail on their rough ocean so. 



It also makes good fuel. In many of the mosses in the West-Riding o( 

 See Phiios. Yorkshire, are often duo; up Birch- trees that burn and flame like Fir and 



rans. vol. IX. kji. i.^^'-f^'-^} or 



o, cv. p. 93. Candle-wood ; and I think Pliny says, the Gauls extracted a sort of bitu- 

 men out of Birch. Great and small Coal are made by the charing of this 



the foliation of the trees and shrubs of this kingdom. The following is his calendar, which 

 was made in Norfolk in the year 1765. 



13 Filbert. April t 



14 Sallow 7 



15 Alder 7 



1 Honey-suckle Jan. 15 



2 Gooseberry March 11 



3 Currant H 



4 Elder 11 



5 Birch April 1 



6 Weeping Willow 1 



7 Raspberry 3 



8 Bramble 8 



9 Brier 4 



10 Plum 6 



11 Apricot 6 



12 Peach 6 



16 Sycamore 9 



17 Elm 10 



18 Quince........ 10 



19 Marsh Elder 11 



20 Wych Elm 12 



21 Quicken-tree 13 



22 Hornbeam 13 



23 Apple-tree 14 



24 Abele 16 



25 Chestnut April l6 



26 Willow... 17 



27 Oak 18 



28 Lime 18 



29 Maple 19 



30 Walnut. 21 



31 Plane 21 



32 Black Poplar. 21 



33 Beech 21 



34 Acacia Robinia 21 



35 Ash 22 



36 Carolina Poplar 22 



In different years, and in different soils and expositions, these trees and shrubs vary as to 

 their leafing ; but they are invariable as to their succession, being bound down to it by 

 Nature herself A farmer, therefore, who would use this sublime idea of Linnaeus, should 

 diligently mark the time of budding, leafing, and flowering of different plants. He should 

 also put down the days on which his respective grains were sown ; and, by comparing 

 these two tables for a number of years, he will be enabled to form an exact calendar for 

 his spring corn. An attention to the discolouring and falling of the leaves of plants, will 



