and propagation of
fir, pine-trees, and some other beneficial materials, both for ornament
and profit; especially, since we find by experience, they thrive so
well, where they are cultivated for curiosity only.

FOOTNOTES:

{176:1}

Texendae sepes etiam, & pecus omne tenendum est:
Praecipue, dum frons tenera, imprudensque laborum,
Cui, super indignas hiemes, solemque potentem,
Silvestres uri assidue, capreaeque sequaces
Illudunt: Pascuntur oves, avidaeque juvencae.
Frigora nec tantum cana concreta pruina,
Aut gravis incumbens scopulis arentibus aestas,
Quantum illi nocuere greges, durique venenum
Dentis, & admorso signata in stirpe cicatrix.

_Georg. 2._

{177:1}

Et dubitant homines serere, atque impendere curam?

_Georg. 2._

{177:2}

..........Omne solum natale est, intrat ubique
Ardelio; illa quidem cultis excluditur agris
Plerumque, atque hortis; sed circumsepit utrosque
Atque omnes aditus servat fidissima custos,
Utilior latrante cane, armatoque Priapo.
Aspera frigoribus saxisque Helvetia tales
Educat, & peregre terras emittit in omnes
Enormes durosque viros, sed fortia bello
Pectora; non illi cultu, non moribus aulas,
Atque urbes decorare valent, sed utrasque fideli
Defendunt opera; nec iis, gens cauta, tyranni,
Praeponunt speciosa magis, multumque sonora
Praesidia; his certi vitam tutantur opesque, &c.

_Couleii_, pl. l. 6.

{192:1} See Varro in _Atis._ Ovid, Fast. 6

........... de spina sumitur alba.

{197:1} Bies. _de Aeris potestate_.

DENDROLOGIA

THE SECOND BOOK

CHAPTER I.

_Of the Mulberry._

1. _Morus_, the mulberry: It may possibly be wonder'd by some why we
should insert this tree amongst our forest inhabitants; but we shall
soon reconcile our industrious planter, when he comes to understand the
incomparable benefit of it, and that for its timber, durableness, and
use for the joyner and carpenter, and to make hoops, bows, wheels, and
even ribs for small vessels, instead of oak, &c. though the fruit and
the leaves had not the due value with us, which they deservedly enjoy in
other places of the world.

2. But it is not here I would recommend our ordinary black fruit
bearers, though that be likewise worth the propagation; but that kind
which is call'd the white mulberry (which I have had sent me out of
Languedoc) one of them of a broad leaf, fo