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PLANTING FOREST TREES. 
ARBORICULTURE. 
ARTICLE IX.—ON PLANTING FOREST TREES, &c. 
Extracted from an Old Work on the Subject, by Moses Cook. 
COMMUNICATED BY MR. THOS. DEE. 
I observed, some time since, in }’our excellent Register, that you 
were ready to receive extracts from old and new curious books on 
gardening, &c. and having lately met with a book written by Moses 
Cook, gardener to the Earl of Essex, at Cashioberry, on Raising 
Forest Trees, second edition, 1717, which contains several curious 
facts, I send you a few, which, if too long for one number, you can 
insert in two or more. 
A Wych Elm in Sir Wm. Baggott’s Park, in the county of 
Staffordshire, as Sir Henry Capell told me, emp'oyed two men five 
days to fell it. It lay forty yards in length, the stool was five yards 
two feet across, fourteen loads of wood brake in the fall, forty-eight 
loads in the top, eighty pair of naves were made of it, besides eight 
thousand six hundred and sixty feet of boards and planks. It cost 
£10. 17s. in sawing, and the whole was conceived to weigh ninety- 
nine tons. It was felled in 1674.—P. 14. Preface. 
Salt as a Manure. —I well remember, when I was a hoy, about 
fourteen years of age, the sea broke into my father’s marsh, in Lin¬ 
colnshire, and it was overflowed with salt-water. The next summer 
being dry, all our grass was burnt up, so that 1 was very much con¬ 
cerned, thinking all our grass was clear killed, indeed so it appeared. 
The next summer proved wet, so that towards the latter end we had 
some grass again, and during the third summer we had grass enough, 
and in the fourth and many others there was an abundance. I would 
have those who lay salt in their gravel walks to kill the weeds, to 
observe if, in a few years they do not produce more weeds than 
others that had no salt laid on them at all.— p. 26. 
Planting Lime-Trees, at Cashioberry.— The following ac¬ 
count of the lime-trees, at Cashioberry Park, ought to be preserved, 
for I think there is hardly another account of the kind to be found. 
—C. 8. p. 30. 
The smaller your plants and the finer you must make the earth 
by screening, sifting, beating, turning, &c. I know this to be true 
from good success, for the Right Honourable my Lord (and the 
more to he honoured, because a great planter and as great a lover 
