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tertaining : So that what Dr.Goddardy and other ingenious Men haveCirApIIhbut conjecturally hinted, is by this inquisitive Person (and that of (heexcellent Malpighius) evinced by autoptical Experience, and profoundResearch into their Anatomy* To all which we may by no means for-get the most Ltncean Inspector Mr. Ant. Vin Leeuwenhoek , concern-ing the Barks of Trees , which he affirms, and experimentally con-vinces, that that Integument , namely the Bark , was produced fromthe Woody and not the Wood from the Bark. But this Discourse , to-gether with the Microscopical Figure (being too long to be here in-serted) refers to that most industrious Person’s Letter , Transact. Numb.

2.96. p. 1843. Let us therefore proceed to the Felling. ,

2.3. It should be in this Status , Vigour and Perfection of TreesF el ti N c,(which for the Oak I take to be about the Age of fifty, or tvvixt thatand sixty Years Growth, where the Soil is natural) that a Fel ling shouldbe celebrated ; since whilst our Woods are growing it is pity, and in-deed too soon ; and when they are decaying , too late. I do not pre-tend that a Man (who has occasion for Timber ) is obliged to attend somany Ages e’er he fell his Trees ; but I do by this infer, how highlynecessary it were, that Men should perpetually be Tlanting ; that soToftenty might have Trees fit for their Service, of competent , that isof a middle Growth and Age, which it is impossible (hey should have,if we thus continue to destroy our Woods , without this providentialiPlanting in their stead, and Felling, what we do cut down with greatDiscretion, and Regard of the Future. , '

I know it is an Objection, or rather an unreasonable Excuse of theslothful Neglect of successive and continual Tlanting , upon so tediousan Expectation of what is not likely to be Timber in our Time ; Butas this is quite otherwise (provided Men would be earjierrat the Work)they might have sufficient of their own Planting (nay, from the veryRudiment and Seeds) abundantly to recompence thepr Patience and At-tendance, living to the Age Men usually attain by tfie common Courseof Nature with how much more Improvement to their ^ Children andPosterity ? And this minds me of what’s reported of (he EmperorMaximilian the-lid. That by chance finding an antiept Ttusband-man letting Date-Jtones, asks him what his meaning was to plant aTree that required an hundred Yews before it bare any Fruit ? Sir,replies the good Man, I have, Children, and they may have morecome after them. At which the Lmperor was so well pleascd,. thathe gave him an hundred Florins. Was not this like that' of Laertesto Vlyfes? . , ‘V ; -q

But before we go farther with the .History of the Stature and Mag-nitude of Trees y we are not to conclude as if all those Trees andPlants, which arrive to that enormousstature and Bulk we have men-tioned, were not to be sound in other Countries, both,of the fame, andother Species ; but that eyen of those Exoticks, and divers pf ourown, which seem Bigmies and Dwarfs, compared to those Giants intheir Native Qlimatey Are so much greater than in ours.; since we findwhat we account but Shrubs are divers of. them well-grown T;rees,and prosper into useful Timber ; such as Juniper (emulating the, t^llCedar) Sabine , Tamarisk? Comely Thillyrea, Granade, Lenti/cus,

Thuyay Laurely Bays , and even Rosemary (andother srutexes''anilignous Tlants) fuperiof in Growth and Stature (than with us) wherethey spontaneously emerge. Thus not only the White-Mulberry won-derfully