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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34425	The manner of raising, ordering, and improving forrest-trees also, how to plant, make and keep woods, walks, avenues, lawns, hedges, &c. : with several figures proper for avenues and walks to end in, and convenient figures for lawns : also rules by M. Cook.	Cook, Moses.	1676 (1676)	Wing C6032; ESTC R20593	184,153	232

THE Manner of Raising Ordering AND IMPROVING Forrest-Trees ALSO How to Plant Make and Keep WOODS WALKS AVENUES LAWNS HEDGES c. WITH Several FIGURES proper for Avenues and Walks to End in and convenient Figures for Lawns Also RULES and TABLES shewing how the Ingenious Planter may measure Superficial Figures with Rules how to divide Woods or Land and how to measure Timber and other Solid Bodies either by Arithmetick or Geometry shewing the Use of that most Excellent Line the Line of Numbers by several New Examples with many other Rules usefull for most Men. By M. COOK LONDON Printed for Peter Parker at the Leg and Star over against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill 1676. TO HIS EXCELLENCY Arthur Capell Lord Lieutenant and General Governour of the Kingdom of IRELAND Earl of Essex Vicount Maldon Lord Capell Baron of Hadham Lord Lieutenant of Hartfordshire and one of the King 's most Honourable Privy Council c. May it please your Excellency DID I not very well know your great Understanding in and Love to the Subject of the ensuing Discourse I durst not assume the Boldness to implore your Honours Patronage of it But being well assured that you have not been onely a Spectator but an Actor in most of what is treated of in the ensuing Lines for to your Eternal Prayse be it spoken there is many a fine Tree which you have Nursed up from Seeds sown by your own hands and many thousands more which you have commanded me to raise Therefore my Lord I humbly crave your Pardon for the Presumption and Imperfection of the Pen-man and though your Excellency knows full well how to prune young Trees yet I hope you will pass by the impertinent and superfluous Lines in this my Plantation which though I have endeavoured to keep as well pruned from Errors and as clean from Weeds as I could yet 't is possible there may be some things in it which some may term as ill But to You all things in it are so well known that I hope both it and I shall find such shelter and support by your favourable Aspect as that we need not to fear the Storms of the ignorant or negligent Planters And my Lord since the Art of Raising and Improving of Trees hath ever been esteemed amongst the truly Noble Wise Ingenious and most refined Spirits of the World from Age to Age and chiefly maintained and practised by them and since this Property is Naturally inherent in You you being not onely a great Lover of this Art but also most skilfull in it I humbly presume to Dedicate these my Observations to your Lordship not being ignorant that he who is most knowing in any thing is the best able to judge of the same and that this my Opinion of your Honours Ability and Promptitude in promoting the Planting and Improving of Forrest-trees is surely grounded the Large Plantation you have made will abundantly testifie But I humbly beg your Lordships Pardon for this Presumption not without hopes that my good Meaning may obtain it and since my good Wishes and the best of my Services is all I can contribute to You these shall never be wanting from My LORD Your Excellencies most Humble and most Obedient Servant to serve You whilest I bear the Name of Moses Cook TO The Courteous READER AMongst the many Books that are sent into the world in this Age I have adventured to increase the Number by this one I know there be many Pamphlets prodigious Histories and Romances invented by mens Fancies which abuse many Noble Spirits in reading of which they spend their time in vain and dull their Wits Which Books are more fit for Women than Men. For they will furnish them with strange Stories and a few fine words Also there be many Books of Disputes in Divinity which tend more to make our Differences the greater than any wayes to edifie or unite us therefore if your Genius leads you to read such Books this is not for your Fancy But if you take delight in Planting or Gardening or to raise and improve Forrest-trees or to make Walks Avenues or Lawns to plant or improve your Woods Hedges c. or to measure most sorts of superficial or solid Figures either by Arithmetick or Geometry with several other Rules of the same Nature as the Titles of each Chapter but especially the Chapters themselves will more fully inform you then I hope this Book will be of good use to you For here are several Rules approved of by several Noble and Ingenious Men which are as faithfully delivered as they are really intended for the good of this Nation and all those that will put them in practice which if you please to doe you will employ your time so well that you will never have cause to say it is ill spent and if once you do but step forward one step and see but any success of your Labours you will need then no Logicians Arguments nor no Rhetoricians Eloquence to perswade you to proceed And for your better Encouragement know that it hath been and is the Delight and Practice of Kings Princes Philosophers and all Noble spirited and wise Men For have not many of them quitted their great Employs and taken upon them this pleasing Art of Planting and Gardening as is proved by several See the Prefaces of Perkinson's Gerard's the Curate of Henonville's and several others For Almighty God hath Imprinted in the Hearts of most wise men such a Love to Plants in part as their Father Adam had in his state of Innocency that those noble and usefull Works which the Almighty made for the use of Man and his Glory should be the more common for their excellent use to the Sons of Men and that they should take care of those which are tender and want the more care lest they should be lost and also that both their Vertues and their Beauties should be known in several parts of the World that he might be the more Admired and Glorified For I do believe that the Blessing of God is much Assisting to those who Love and endeavour to Improve and Preserve his Works for God's Works and his Word are no such different things and also it hath been and is observed that those that are Wasters and wilfull Spoylers of Trees and Plants without just Reason so to doe have seldom prospered in this World See this confirmed by Esquire Evelyn in his Preface to his Discourse of Forrest-trees Therefore you that are Lovers of Trees and Plants if once you have them let your Love be shewed in the Care you take of them to keep them from Cattel and other Inconveniencies then will you not onely have Pleasure and Profit of them but others by being defended from the malignant and sharp Air by their Heads and Bodies and also shaded from the violent Heats and their sweet Flowers and their refreshing Fruit will be usefull to several men Also Planting and Gardening addes much to the Health and