ees, grow so fat, that in some
countries abroad, they take infinite numbers of them, (I suppose) to
eat; and what relief they give thrushes, black-birds, feldefares and
other birds, every body knows. See Mithiolus in _dioscord._ l. 1. of
what they suffer in Carinthiae, Carniola, and Itiria. Supplement to this
Tract. _vid._ Ray's tom. III. Lib. XXV. Dendrologia Fago. tom. II. p.
1382.

FOOTNOTES:

{75:1} Theophrast. l. 3. c. 9.

{77:1}

Hinc olim juvenis mundi melioribus annis,
Fortunatarum domuum non magna supellex
Tota petebatur; sellas, armaria, lectos,
Et mensas dabat, & lances & pocula fagus, _&c._

_Couleij Pl._ l. 6.

{78:1}

.........Nec bella fuerunt,
Faginus adstabat dum scyphus ante dapes.

_Tibul._

{79:1}

Sic qui vecturus longinqua per aequora merces
Molitur tellure ratem, vitamque procellis
Objectare parat, fagos metitur, & alnos,
Ad varium rudibus silvis accommodat usum, &c.

{80:1}

..........Silva domus, cubilia frondes.

_Juvenal._

CHAPTER VI.

_Of the Horn-beam._

1. _Ostrys_ the horn-beam, (by some called the horse-beech, from the
resemblance of the leaf) in Latin (ignorantly) the _Carpinus_, is
planted of sets; though it may likewise be rais'd from the _juelas_ and
seeds, which being mature in August, should be sown in October, and will
lie a year in the bed, which must be well and carefully shaded so soon
as they peep: But the more expeditious way is by layers or sets, of
about an inch diameter, and cut within half a foot of the earth: Thus it
will advance to a considerable tree. The places it chiefly desires to
grow in are in cold hills, stiff ground, and in the barren and most
expos'd parts of woods. We have it no where more abounding in the south,
than in the woods of Hartfordshire; very few westward.

2. Amongst other uses which it serves for, as mill-cogs, &c. (for which
it excels either yew or crab) yoak-timber (whence of old, and for that
it was as well flexible as tough, 'twas call'd +zygia+) heads of
beetles, stocks and handles of tools: It is likewise for the turners use
excellent; good fire-wood, where it burns like a candle, and was of old
so employ'd;

_Carpinus taedas fissa facesque dabit._

(For all which purposes its extream toughness and whiteness commends it
to the husbandman.) Being planted in small fosses or trenches, at half a
foot interval, and in the single row, it mak