gging about them three times a year, as that author advises; seeing
some of them will decay, whatever care be used.

12. Sallows may also be propagated like vines, by courbing, and bowing
them in arches, and covering some of their parts with mould, &c. Also by
cuttings and layers, and some years by the seeds likewise.

13. For setlings, those are to be preferr'd which grow nearest to the
stock, and so (consequently) those worst, which most approach the top.
They should be planted in the first fair and pleasant weather in
February, before they begin to bud; we about London begin at the latter
end of December. They may be cut in Spring for fuel, but best in Autumn
for use; but in this work (as of poplar) leave a twig or two; which
being twisted archwise, will produce plentiful sprouts, and suddenly
furnish a head.

14. If in our copp'ces one in four were a sallow set, amongst the rest
of varieties, the profit would recompence the care; therefore where in
woods you grub up trees, thrust in trunchions of sallows, or some
aquatic kind. In a word, an acre or two furnish'd with this tree, would
prove of great benefit to the planter.

15. The swift growing sallow is not so tough and hardy for some uses as
the slower, which makes stocks for gard'ners spades; but the other are
proper for rakes, pikes, mops, &c. Sallow-coal is the soonest consum'd;
but of all others, the most easie and accommodate for painters
scribbets, to design their work, and first sketches on paper with, &c.
as being fine, and apt to slit into pencils.

16. To conclude, there is a way of graffing a sallow-trunchion; take it
of two foot and half long, as big as your wrist; graff at both ends a
fig, and mulberry-cyon of a foot long, and so, without claying, set the
stock so far into the ground, as the plant may be three or four inches
above the earth: This (some affirm) will thrive exceedingly the first
year, and in three, be fit to transplant. The season for this curiosity
is February. Of the sallow (as of the lime-tree) is made the
shooe-maker's carving or cutting-board, as best to preserve the edge of
their knives, for its equal softness every way.

17. Oziers, or the aquatick and lesser _salix_, are of innumerable
kinds, commonly distinguish'd from sallows, as sallows are from withies;
being so much smaller than the sallow, and shorter liv'd, and requiring
more constant moisture, yet would be planted in rather a dryish ground,
than over moist and spew