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constant moisture, yet should be .planted in rather a dryish ground, than chap.over moist and spewing, which we frequently cut trenches to avert. Itlikewise yields more limber and flexible twigs for baskets, .flaskets, ham-pers, cages, lattices, cradles,. &x„ it is of excellent use for the bodies ofcoaches and waggons, being light, durable, and neat, as it may be wrought,and covered. It ,is good: for chairs, hurdles, stays, bands, the strongerfor being contused and wreathed ^ likewise for fish-weirs, and to supportthe-banks of impetuous rivers : >In fine, for all wicker and twiggy works;

VimLnibus Salices-— Virg.

1*7. But these sorts of Oziers should be cut in the new shoot; for if theystand longer they become more inflexible : Cut them close to the head, afoot or so above the earth, about the beginning of October,, unlefs youwill attend till the cold be past, which is better; and yet we about Lon-don cut them in the most piercing seasons, and plant them also tillCandlemas , which those who do not observe, we judge ill husbands, asI learn from a very experienced basket-maker; and in the decrease, forthe benefit of the workman, though not altogether for that of the stock,and succeeding shoot. When they are cut, make them up into bundles,and give them shelter; but such as are for wfoite work, as they call it,being thus fagotted and made up in bolts, as they term is, severing eachsort by themselves, should be set in water, the ends dipped ; and indeedall peeled wares of the viminious kind are not otherwise preserved fromthe worm; but for black and unpeeled, shelter them under covert only,or in some vault or cellar, to keep them fresh, sprinkling them now andthen in excelsive hot weather : The peelings of the former, or rather thesplicings, are for the use of the gardener and cooper.

18. We have in England these three vulgar, sorts; one of little wmrth,being brittle, and very much resembling the fore-mentioned Sallow^, withreddish twdgs, and more greenish and rounder leaves ;. Another kind thereis, called Perch, of limber and green twigs, having a very slender leaf..

The third sort is totally like the second, only the twigs are net altogetherso green, but yellowish, and near the Popinjay: This is the very best foruse, being tough and hardy. But the most usual names by which basket-makers call them about London , and which are all of different species,therefore to be planted separately, are, the Hard Gelster, the llorse-