Sylva, or a discourse of forest-trees, and the propagation of timber in His Majesties dominions / By J. E[velyn] esq.; as it was deliver'd in the Royal Society the XVth of October, [1662], upon occasion of certain quæries propounded to that illustrious assembly, by the honorable the principal officers, and commissioners of the Navy. To which is annexed Pomona; or, an appendix concerning fruit-trees in relation to cider; the making and several ways of ordering it. Published by express order of the Royal Society. Also Kalendarium hortense; or, gard'ners almanac. Directing what he is to do monethly throughout the year.

  • Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.
Date:
1664
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Credit: Sylva, or a discourse of forest-trees, and the propagation of timber in His Majesties dominions / By J. E[velyn] esq.; as it was deliver'd in the Royal Society the XVth of October, [1662], upon occasion of certain quæries propounded to that illustrious assembly, by the honorable the principal officers, and commissioners of the Navy. To which is annexed Pomona; or, an appendix concerning fruit-trees in relation to cider; the making and several ways of ordering it. Published by express order of the Royal Society. Also Kalendarium hortense; or, gard'ners almanac. Directing what he is to do monethly throughout the year. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the dimenftons of wood in the Stac4, fee Chap. 27. to dire# the lefs inftru#ed Pur chafer : and I have been the more particular upon this occafion > becaufe then our Fuel bought in Fillet by the Notch (“as they call it in London) there is nothing more deceitful 5 for by the vile iniquity of fome Wretches, marking the Billets as they come to the Wharf Gentlemen are egregioufly cheated. I could produce an inftance of a Friend of mine (and a Member of this Society) for which the Wood-monger has little caufe to brag 3 fince he never durft come at him, or challenge his Money for the Commodity he bought 3 becaufe he durft not ftand to the meafure. 8. But I will now defcribe to you the Myftery of Char king (whereof fomething was but touch’d in the Procefiof extra#ing Tar out of the Pines) as I receiv’d it from a moft induftrious perfon, andfo conclude the Chapter. There is made of Char-coal ufually three forts, viz. one for the Iron-works ^ a fecond for Gun-powder, and a third for London and the Courts befides Small-coals, of which we fhall alfo fpeak in its due place. We will begin with that fort which is us’d for the Iron-work,r, becaufe the reft are made much after the fame manner, and with very little difference. The bell: Wood for this is good Oa^c ut into lengths of three foot, as they fize it for the stacks: This is better then the Cord-wood, though of a larger meafure, and much us’d in Suffex. The wood cut, and fet in flacks ready for the Coaling 3 chule out fome level place in the Copfe0 the moft free from ftubs, &c. to make the Hearth on: In the midft of this area drive down a ftakefor your Centre, and with a pole, having a faftn’d to one of the extreams (or elle with a Cord put over the Centre) defcribe a Circumference from twenty, or more feet femidiameter, accor¬ ding to the quantity of your wood defign’d for coalings which be¬ ing neer may conveniently be charked in that Hearth 3 and which at onetime may be 12, 16, 20, 24, even to 30 Jiacl(.* If 12 therefore be the quantity you will coal, a Circle whofe diame¬ ter is 24 foot, willfuffice for the Hearth 3 If 20 ftack, a diameter of 32 foots 5 If 30, 40 foot, and fo proportionably. Having thus marked out the ground,with Mattocks^haws and fit Inftruments, bare it of the Turf and of all other combuftible ftuft whatfoever, which you are to rake up towards the Peripherie, or out-lide of the circumference, for an ufe to be afterwards made of it, plaining, and levelling the ground within the circle : This done, the wood is to be brought from the neereft parts where it is Jlackid^ in wheel-barrows 3 and firft the fmalleft of it plac’d at the utmoft limit, or very margent of the Hearth, where it is to be fet long-ways, as it lay inthefiac^ the biggeft of the wood pitch, or fet up on end round about againft the fm all-wood^ and all this within the circle^ till you come within five, or fix foot of the cen¬ tre^ at which diftance you fhall begin to fet the wood in a Trian¬ gular form (as in Fig. 2. A ) till it come to be three foot high: Againft i