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6. And first for their Raisings some there are, ‘ Int rod.

a Sstring of themselves unforc’d by human Care,

Specified according to the various Disposition of the Air and Soil *b Some from their Seeds arise,

As the Oak, Chefs-nut, AJh, &c.

c Some to thick Groves from their own Roots do spring,

As the Elm, Alder , &c. And there are othersd Grow without Root,

As Willows, and all the vimineous Kinds, which are raised of Sets only.

e These Wtys first Nature gave.

And that immortal Poet has Ib elegantly and comprehensibly de*fcrib’d, as I cannot pals:

^ Some Trees their Birth to bounteous Nature owe ,

For some without the Fains of Flanting grow :

With Osiers thus the Banks of Brooks abound ;

Sprung from the watry Genius of the Ground \

From the fame Frinciples the grey Willows come ,

Herculean Poplar, and the tender Broom :

But some such Seeds inclos’d in Earth arise ;

For thus the mast-ful Chels-nut mates the Skies.

Hence rife the branching Beech, and vocal Oak,

Where Jove of old oraculoufiy spoke.

Some from the Root a rifing Wood difiloje ;

Thus Elms, and thus the salvage Cherry grows.

Thus the green Bays that binds the Foets Brows ,

Shoots, and is jbelter'd by the Mother's Boughs.

These Ways of Flanting Nature did ordain,

For Trees and Shrubs, and all the Sylvan Reign.

Others there are, by late Experience found, &c.

For thus we fee there are more Ways to the Wood than one, and shehas furnilh’d us with Variety of Expedients.

* — — . nullis hominum cogentibus, ipsae

Sponte sua yeniunt — - — - .

b Pars autem pofito sufgunt de semine.

e Pullulat ab radice aliis densislima Silva.

' ^ A Nil radicis egent - ■ - ■ - -

Hos natura modos primum dedit ■ - - -

s 4 Principio arboribus varia est natura creandisj

Namque anæ, nullis hominum cogentibus, ipsasI Sponte sua yeniunt, camposque, Le stumina late

Curva terient: Ut mollc sil Cl -, lentæque genistæ,

Populus, 8c glauca canentia fronde silictaPars autem posito surgunt de semine: ut alt*

Castaneæ, nemorumque Jovi qua: maxim 3 frondec

-•‘ t ■■ Æsculus, atque habits Graiis oracula quercuS.

I-.. Pullulat ab radice aliis denfistima silva :

Ut cerasis, ulmisqne: etiam Parnaflia laurus

s" Parya sub ihgenti ftiatris fe protegit umbra. 11

v Hos natura modps, primum dedit: his genus omne

^ Silvarum fruticiimque viret, nemorumque factotum. „ |

Sun* alii, quosipse Viaiibi reperit usus, &c. VIR G. Ctor. ii.

■' 7. And

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