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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

it was sent me by a fair Lady saith he To every Gallon of birch-Birch-water put a quart of Honey well stilled together then boyl it almost an hour with a few Cloves and a little Limon-peel keeping it well scumm'd when it is sufficiently boyled and become cold adde to it three or four Spoonfulls of good Ale to make it work which it will do like New Ale and when the Yeast begins to settle bottle it up as you do other winey Liquors it will in a competent time become a most brisk and spirituous Drink which is a very powerfull Opener This Wine may if you please be made as successefully with Sugar instead of Honey lib. 1. to each Gallon of water or you may dulcifie it with Raisons and compose a Raison-wine of it I know not whether the Quantity of the sweet Ingredients might not be somwhat Reduced and the Operation improved but I give it as Received For Distempers in Man it is good for Cure of the Ptysick most powerfull for dissolving the Stone in the Bladder curing as I am told Consumptions and such interiour Diseases as accompany the Stone in the Bladder and Reins This Liquor is so strong that the common sort of Stone-Bottles cannot preserve the Spirits so subtile they are and volatile and yet it is gentle and very harmless in Operation within the Body and exceedingly sharpens the Appetite being drunk ante Pastum This from the Learned Author and thus much of the Birch And now I proceed CHAP. XXIV Of Raising the Hasel OF the Kinds there be many and some very good Fruit as the Red and VVhite Filberds the great French Nut c. also your wild Nuts do differ much in shape and goodness My Lord had once a Quantity of very good sorts sent him from beyond Sea they had a very tender Shell therefore I took care to raise some of them and did severall but when they came to bear they were no better than our Hedge-nuts VVhen they be Ripe I need not tell you for every Boy can order them all winter as you are advised to keep your VValnuts and sowe them at the same time in the Spring they will grow almost on any Ground provided not too wet but best on your dry ground therefore set them on your high and dry Banks between your Fences but Early in Winter if they hold but the first year they will produce good Stubs you may increase them by Suckers or Laying but the best way is from their Nuts I would have you to benefit your self by Laying this and other Woods in your Woods that be thin of wood I dare assure you that for every Shilling you lay out in this Husbandry in a few Years time every Shilling shall be paid you yearly for many years after CHAP. XXV Of Raising the several sorts of Poplers THere may be many sorts of this VVood but I know but Four the best is that large white Popler a great leaf white on the lower side it shoots with a strong whitish shoot which the Dutch call Abele The Second is a sort much like to this both in Leaf and Shoot which grows in many places of this Land and is in most places called the white Popler The Third is a sort that hath the leaves and shoots more small and not so white it groweth in many places and in most of them is called the Aspen or Asp-tree These three sorts are to be ordered all as one the other differs much both in the Nature of growing and ordering therefore a word or two of these I never yet did Raise any of them of Seed but I do believe they have a Seed in that downy substance they shed in the Spring they increase naturally very much from the Roots but they may be help'd much by the Rules in the Chapter before which sheweth you how to raise Trees from the Roots of another Tree by which Rules from two of the Abele Trees my Lord had from Holland I have raised above a hundred But if you fence in a place round the Tree to keep Cattel off and keep down the great weeds a little they will put forth many young Trees from the Roots of an old one especially if you prune up or thin the Heads of any of these sorts they will then yield the more but if you do not value your Mother-tree but desire to get a great stock of young ones then you may fell the Mother-tree at the ground and if it be not very young or old the Roots will put forth in young Trees the Quantity of the Body and Head of that Tree and so will the Elm Cherry c. then how usefull such Trees are to set in the places of VVoods that be thin I leave you to judge Though this Tree is none of the best of VVoods besides the aforesaid Properties I can satisfie you it will grow and increase on the very worst of your grounds as well drye as wet You must forbear to head any of these three sorts unless young or that you leave some young shoots to draw up the sap except you are minded to destroy the old one you head for if the Lops be very great it many times kills or makes the Tree hollow therefore lop young Some will tell you they grow of Chips but that is false they rarely will grow of Cuttings They are best in VVoods though some advise you to plant them in VValks but they be not good for walks for the Suckers they produce from the Roots will be troublesome The greater sorts are proper to set on the East VVest or North Prospect at a distance in or by the side of a wood for their white Leaves shew finely when the Sun shines upon them and make fine variety with other Trees that have dark green leaves I commend them to you for to plant in woods of barren ground for there they increase much and yield much wood And so I leave them and come to the other which differeth from these both in Leaf and Shoot and manner of growing This last kind is in most places called the water-Popler its Leaf is a pale Green shaped something like the other but it is not white below the shoot is of a yellowish green this loves to grow by Rivers sides or in Ground that is wet or such as holds water much Therefore you that have such Grounds get some of this Tree to set in them It will grow of Truncheons from two foot long to eight the first being the best to set for Stubs the other you may make Pollards of for it is a good profitable wood bringing a good Lop in few years and that on some Grounds better than the Willow For your instruction in setting the small setts see Chap. 6. and for setting those of six seven eight or nine foot long for to make Pollard-trees keep the lower end of your set and also the upper free from cracks and cut each sloaping off as for the bigness let

big enough for Walks VVoods or what you please Thus much at this time of the Sycamore onely remember as I said before that it is a good wood to plant in Coppices and Woods CHAP. XXI Of Raising and Ordering the Hornbeam I Told you but now of the Sycamore being fit to be set in Parks because Deer do not often Bark them but of all Trees that I know for that purpose this is the best for a Deer will sterve before he will so much as taste the Bark of the Hornbeam they do not love much the very small tops This Tree may be raised of Seed or by Laying but by Seed is best though the young Seedlings be tender The Seeds may be sown at the time directed for the Ash for it lieth a year in the Ground before it comes up and then you must look to keep it well shaded or else it will sooner be gone than you think for It naturally loveth to grow on stiffe ground where it will grow and bring great Lops to the Owner when the Tree is but a very Shell as indeed most Old Trees are hollow within which I judge not to be the Nature of the Tree so to grow but the fault of those that look to them for they have too many Masters which be bad Husbands and no Friends to this Tree and many others as the Elm Ash c. who let the Lops be great before they lop them perswadeing themselves that they have more great wood which is most usefull never considering that great lops do endanger the Life of the Tree or at best wound it so much that many Trees decay more yearly in their Bodies than the yearly lops come to and so indeed they do provide themselves with more great wood though it be much to the Owners loss though this Tree will bear great Lops when there is nothing but a shell of a Tree standing yet the Ash if once come to take wet much at the Head it rarely bears more Lop after that the Body of the Tree decayes Therefore if once a Tree decayes much at the middle it will soon be little worth else but for the Fire But in case you find a Timber tree decay as is aforesaid down with it in time for fear you lose your Timber and also the Fire-wood be spoyled but of this I have spoken before and would also speak more could I with words but perswade men out of this great Error But our ordinary Husband-men will vindicate Their Countrey-Husbandry to be better than the next for indeed Countreys do differ much in the ordering of Trees and Hedges and they as much condemn ours for it is as hard to perswade them out of their self-conceited Opinion and Tradition as it is to make a Jew turn Christian This tree makes the very best Hedges of any Tree we have in England that sheds the leaves I mean for Ornament for you may keep it in what form you please and it will grow very thick to the very Ground Therefore to make a private Walk or to sence in Avenues at a convenient distance without the bound-Range of Trees or Walks or to hedge in Ridings Causewayes or to make close Walks or Arbours this Tree is much to be commended especially on such ground which it likes You may be better satisfied about this Tree at Hampton-Court in his Majesties Garden which is kept by the ingenious Artist and my good Friend Mr. Tobias Gatts It is good Fire-wood and yieldeth good Increase both from Stubs and Pollards It encreaseth much by sowing it self therefore you that love planting get a few into your Plantations and try whether they will thrive with you or not which doubtless it will on many Grounds where now it is not and so would many other Trees doe mighty well in VVoods and Coppices to thicken them and make them the more beautifull especially those that increase from the running Roots as the Noble Elm Cherry Sarvice Abel Popler c. and some others for to seed if you have them not as Ash Sycamore Line Hornbeam Maple Quickbeam c. and with those which you see thrive best you may at every Fall furnish your woods where they be thin and I do assure you it will pay you for your pains with Interest CHAP. XXII Of Raising the Quickbeam THE Quickbeam VVhitchen or VVild-ash though very scarce in the South parts of this Land is pretty plentifull in some parts of the North as in Nottingham-shire c. and would be there more plentifull were it suffered to grow great to bear the greater Quantity of Seed for I think it increaseth as the Ash doth onely from seed It produceth straight small and long shoots which in that Countrey they cut off while they are young to make Goads as they call them or Whips to drive their Oxen with for it is as tough a VVood as most is I do ghess the seeds lye a year in the Ground before they come up I am now about trying to raise some Let me desire some kind Planters to get some of this VVood into their bounds where it is not that it may be tryed whether it will grow in the South or not as no doubt but it will if you will but trye I shall say no more of this Tree because I cannot yet speak much on my own Knowledge CHAP. XXIII Of Raising the Birch THis Tree increaseth froom the Roots or Suckers and for ought I know it may be raised of Seeds for I do suppose there are Seeds in that which it sheds in the Spring though I have not yet tryed It delights to grow on your hungry Gravel as it doth about Cashicbury in several VVods Therefore you that have barren Ground where your VVoods be get some sets of this VVood to help to thicken your VVoods for though it be one of the worst of VVoods yet it is very usefull and the great God hath ordered it to be contented with the worst of Grounds and besides that it should not be despised by his Servants he hath endowed it with a Faculty of Attracting and preparing from the Earth a very Medicinal Liquor which is both pleasant and healthfull for man which to take from the Tree and also to prepare this Water and to demonstrate what Diseases it is good for I shall make bold to borrow out of Esquire Evelyns Discourse of Forrest-trees pag. 32 c. About the beginning of March with a Chizzel and a Mallet cut a slit almost as deep as the very Pith under some Bough or Branch of a well-spreading Birch Cut it oblique and not long-wayes inserting a small Stone or Chip to keep the Lips of the Wound a little open fasten thereto a Bottle or some other convenient Vessel appendant out of this Aperture will extill a limphid and clear water retaining an obscure smack both of the Taste and Odour of the Tree thus may you obtain this water I will present you a Receipt how to make it as