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Title: Silva: or, A discourse of forest-trees, and the propagation of timber in His Majesty's dominions, as it was delivered in The Royal society, on the 15th of October 1662 ..
Year: 1801 (1800s)
Authors: Evelyn, John, 1620-1706. 1n Hunter, A. (Alexander), 1729-1809, ed. cn
Subjects: Forests and forestry Trees
Publisher: York, Wilson
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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young plants appear, they must be keptclear from weeds in the manner formerly ordered for trees planted in rows, and they mustTemain under that careful cultivation till the weeds are no longer to be feared. Wherethe plants stand too thick, they should be properly thinned, and this thinning oughtto be continued till the plants are left a yard asunder each way. A Coryletum may alsobe raised from plants drawn from the seminary, when they are a foot or two feet high.These should be planted where they are to remain at one yard asunder. In twelve yearsthey may be cut down for poles; but they will be ready for a second fall much sooner;and afterwards may be cut every seventh or eighth year, when the value will be from tento fifteen pounds per acre. The chief uses to which this wood is applied, is for hurdles,faggots, hoops, and bundles of stakes. Close hurdles sell from six shillings to nineshillings a dozen. Bundles of stakes sell for sevenpence each. Hoops are worth three Tune 2%0. Mel . I
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/(r tf.ts1/l#*r.6/Jj(r1, OF FOREST-TREES. 221 sown and harrowed in very accurately; but in case the mould be clay, ch. xvn.plough it earlier, and let it be sufficiently mellowed with the frosts; and v*-»v-^/then the third year cut your trees near to the ground with a sharp bill,the moon decreasing. shillings and sixpence a bundle of sixty hoops. The Byzantine Nut is distinguished fromthe other species chiefly by the stipulae, which are very narrow and acute, whereas thoseof the common nut are oval and obtuse. It differs also in the size of its growth theByzantine seldom growing higher than four or five feet, hence it got the name of DzaarfNut-tree. In other respects it is like our common Nut-tree; it flowers at the same time andthe fruit is produced in clusters. Mr. Miller suspects this and the Barcelona Nut to bethe same. The Filbert, or Coryhs sativa fructu oblongo, is not a distinct species, but only a varietyof the Common Nut. This can only be kept true to its kind by suckers, or

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