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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    12. When you would Fell let the Sap be perfectly in repole • as 'tis commonly about November or December, after the fioft hath well nipp#d them .* I have already alleadg’d my reafon for it 5 and I am told. That both Oak^ and Elm fo cut, the very Saplings (whereof Rafters, Spars&c. are made) will continue as long as the very heart of the Free without decay. In this work^cwt your kerfs near to the ground $ but have a care that it fuffer not in the fall, and be ruined with its own weight .* This depends upon your Wood-mans judgment in disbranching, and is a neceftary caution to the Felling of all other Timber-Trees. If any begin to doat pick out fuch for the Ax, and rather truft to its Succeffor. 13. Elm is a Timber of moft lingular Vfe $ efpecially where it may lie continually dry, or wet in extreames} therefore proper for Water-works, Mills, Pipes, Tumps, Ship-planks beneath the Water¬ line 5 and fome that has been found buried in Boggs ^ has turn’d like the moft polilh’d, and hardeft Ebony, only difcern’d by the grhn : Alfo for Wheel-wrights, Kerbs of Coppers, Featheridg and Weather-boards, Drejjers and fundry other imployments. It makes alfo the fecond fort of Charcoal $ and finally (which I muft not omit) theufe of the very leaves of this Tree, especially of the fe- male, ismot to be defpis’d 3 for being fufFered to dry in the Sun upon the Branches, and the Jpray Ihrip’d off about the decreafe in Auguji (as alfo where the fuckers and Jiolones are fuper-numerary, and hinder the thriving of their Nurfes) they will prove a great relief to Cattel in Winter, when hay and fodder is dear 5 they will eat them even before Oates , and thrive exceedingly well with them} remember only to lay your Boughs up in lome dry, and fweet corner of your Barn : It was for this the Poet prais’d them, and the Epithete was advis’d, •-*~—fcecund£ fiondibus Vlmi. Georg. 2. In fome parts of Hereford-Jhire they gather them in Sacks for their Swine ^ and other Cattel according to this husbandry. CHAP. V. Of the Beech. id I^He Beech f_Fagus~\n\imbred amongft the glandiferous Trees, JL I rank here before the martial Ajh9 becaufe it commonly grows to a greater ftature. There are of thele Fagi two, or three kinds with us} the Mountain,which is the whiteft,and moft fought after by the Turnery and the Campeftral or wild, which is of a blacker colour, and more durable. They are both to be rais’d from the Mafl, and govern’d like the Oak, of which amply 5 and that is abfolutely the beft way of furnilhing a Wood: But they are likewile /