OF FORES T-T REE S.

a In Walks the Horn-beam stands, or in a Maze,Through thousand self-entangling Labyrinths strays:

So class the Branches lops’a on either Side ,

As though an Alley did two Walls divide :

This Beauty found, Order did next adornThe Boughs into a thousand Figures [born ,

Which pleafing Objebls Weariness betray d,

Tour Feet into a Wilderness convey 1 d:

Nor better Leaf on twining Arbor spread,

Againfl the schorchin? Sun to (hield your Head.

Evelyn Rapinus.

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Chap. VI.

CHAP. VII.

Of the jifh.

1. 1 ''Raxinus the Ash, is with us reputed Male and Female, the one A s».

P affecting the higher Grounds • the other the Plains, of a whiterWood, and rising many Times to a prodigious Stature j so as in fortyYears from the Key, an AJh hath been fold for thirty Pounds Sterling:And I have been credibly informed, that one Person hath planted so muchof this one Sort of Timber in his Life-time, as hath been valued worthfifty thousand Founds to be bought. These are pretty Encouragementsfor a small and pleasant Industry. That there is a lower, and moreknotty Sort, every Husbandman can distinguish.

x. The Keys, or Totmgs , being gathered from a young thriving Treewhen they begin to fall (which is about the End of Obtober, and theensuing Month) are to be laid to dry, and then sowed any Time be-twixt that and Christmas ; but not altogether so deep as your formerMasts. Thus they do in Spain, from whence it were good to procuresome of the Keys from their best Trees: A very narrow Seminary willbe sufficient to store a whole Country : They will lie a full Year in theGround before they appear • therefore you must carefully fence them allthat Time, and have Patience: But if you would make a considerableWood of them at once, Dig or Flow a Parcel of Ground, as you wouldprepare it for Corn, and with the Corn , especially Oats (or what otherGrain you think fitttest) low also good Store of Keys , some Crab-Kernels, Ge. amongst them: Take off your Crop of Corn or Seed inits Season, and the next Year following, it will be covered with youngAjbes, which will be sit either to stand (which I prefer) or be trans-planted for divers Years after; and these you will find to be far betterthan any you can gather out of the Woods (especially Suckers, whichare worth nothing) being removed at one Foot Stature (the sooner thebetter) for an AJh of two Years thus taken out of the Nursery , shall

a In tractus loogos facilis tibi Carpinus ibis,

Millc per mores, mdeprekenfbfque recessus,

Et motles tendens fecto feu pariete raanos,Prarbebit viridem diverso e margine feenam.

Primus bonos illi quondam, post additus ordo est,Attonsæque coma:, 5c formis quæfita voluptasInnunieris, fuvtoque via:, obliquoque recessu :

In tractus acta est longos 6c opaca vireta.Quinctiam ægregis: tendens umbracula fro nd isTempera! ardentes ramis ingentibus æstus.

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