9 6 A DISCOURSE

Book l.best of any: Rales are also made of cleft Willow, Horfers, Fruit -baskets, Cans, Hives for Bees, Trenchers, Trays, and for polish-ing and whetting Table-Knives, the Butler will find it above anyWood or Whet-stone ; also for Coals, Bavin, and excellent Firing , notforgetting the fresh Boughs, which, of all the Trees in Nature, yieldthe most chaste and coolest Shade in the hottest Season of the Day ; andthis Umbrage so wholesome, that Rhystcians presoribe it to feaverifhPersons, permitting them to be placed even about their Beds, as a safeand comfortable Refrigerium. The Wood being preserved dry, willdure a very long Time ; but that which is found wholly putrified, andreduced to a loamy Earth in the hollow Trunks of superannuatedTrees, is, of all other, the fittest to be mingled with fine Mould, forthe raising our choicest Flowers, such as Ancmonies, Ranunculus s,Auriculas, and the like.

a What would we more ? Low Broom, and Sallows wild,

Or feed the Flock, or Shepherds Shade, or FieldHedges about, or do us Honey yield.

30. Now by all these Plantations of the Aquatick Trees, it is evi-dent, the Lords of moorijh Commons, and unprofitable Wastes, maylearn some Improvement, and the neighbour Bees be gratified, andmany Tools of Husbandry become much cheaper. I conclude withthe learned Stephanus’s Note upon these Kind of Trees, after he hasenumerated the universal Benefit of th eSaliffum; Nullius enim tutiorredit us, minorifue impendii , aut temp est at is securior.

CHAP. XX.

Of Fences } Quicksets, &c.

fences: i./~\ UR main Riant at ion is now finilhed, and our Forest adornedW with a just Variety: But what is yet all this Labour, but lossof Time, and irreparable Expence, unless our young and (as yet) ten-der Rlants be sufficiently guarded with Munitions from all externalInjuries ? For, as old Tujster,

3!f Cattle or Conep map enter to Crop,foutiff Dak is in vanger ok lofin§ His Top.

But with something a more poliffied Stile, though to the fame Purpose,the best of Poets,

b Blast? Fences thy Riant at ion round about ,

And whilst yet young, be sure keep Cattle out ;

Severest Winters, scorching Sun infest,

And Sheep , Goats, Bullocks, all young Riants molest',

“ Quid majora sequori Salices, humilesque genists,

Aut ilia: pecori frondem, aut pastoribus umbramSufEciunt, sepemque satis 6c pabula nielli. Georg- ii.

Texendæ sepes etiam, 6c pecus omne tenendum est:raecipuj, d U rn frons tenera, imprudensque laborum,ui, hjper indignas hyemes, solemque potentem,Silvesttes Uv, asliduc, capreæque sequace*

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