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book i. Gelster, Whining, or Shrivelled Gelster, the Black Gelster, with whichSuffolk abounds. Then follow the Golstones, the Hard, and the SoftGolstone, (brittle and worst of all the Golstones;) the Sharp and Slender-topped Yellow Golstone; the Fine Golstone : Then is there the YellowOzier, the Green Ozier, the Snake or Speckled Ozier, Swallow-tail, andthe Spaniard: To these we may add (for they are governed and usedalike) the Flanders Willow, which will arrive to be a large tree, as bigas one’s middle, the oftener cut the better; with these our coopers tietheir hoops to keep them bent. Lastly, the White Sallow, which being ofone or two years growth, is used for green-work ; and of the toughestsort they make quarter-can hoops, of which, for our seamen, greatquantities are provided..

19. These choicer sorts of Oziers, which are ever the smallest, also the

■Golden Yellow and White, which is preferred for propagation and tobreed of, should be planted of slips of two or three years, growth, a foot.deep, and half a yard in length, in moorish grounds or banks, or else infurrows; so that, as some direct, the roots may frequently reach the water,Fluminibus Saliccs -though we commonly find it rots them, and there-

fore never choose to set them so deep as to scent it.

20. The season for planting is January, and all February, though some.not till Mid-February, at two feet square ; but cattle being excefsivelyliquorish of their leaves and tender buds, some talk of.grafting them out•of reach upon Sallows, and by this to advance their sprouting; but as thework would consume time, so have I never seen it succeed.

21. Some do also plant Oziers, in their Eyghts, like Quick-sets, thick,and (near the water) keep them not more than half a foot above ground;but then they must be diligently cleansed from mofs, slab, and ouze, andfrequently pruned, especially the smaller spires, to form single shoots, atleast that few, or none, grow double ; these they head every second yearabout September, the autumnal cuttings being best for use : But, generally

22. You may cut Withies, Sallows, and Willows at any mild and gentleseason, between leaf and leaf, even in winter; but the most congruous

■ time both to plant and to cut them is, Crescente kina Vere, circa Calendas