dy (as you see) for timber profitable, huge great of bulke,
and of infinite last.

{Illustration: _Imagine the roote to be spread farre wider._}

If all timber trees were such (will some say) how should we haue crooked
wood for wheeles, courbs, &c.

_Answ._ Dresse all you can, and there will be enough crooked for those
vses.

More than this, in most places, they grow so thicke, that neither
themselues, nor earth, nor any thing vnder or neere them can thriue, nor
Sunne, nor raine, nor aire can doe them, nor any thing neere or vnder
them any profit or comfort.

I see a number of Hags, where out of one roote you shall see three or
foure (nay more, such as mens vnskilfull greedinesse, who desiring many
haue none good) pretty Okes or Ashes straight and tall, because the root
at the first shoote giues sap amaine: but if one onely of them might bee
suffered to grow, and that well and cleanely pruned, all to his very
top, what a tree should we haue in time? And we see by those rootes
continually and plentifully springing, notwithstanding so deadly
wounded. What a commodity should arise to the owner, and the
Common-wealth, if wood were cherished, and orderly dressed.

{SN: Profit of trees dressed.}
{SN: The end of Trees.}
The wast boughes closely and skilfully taken away, would giue vs store
of fences and fewell, and the bulke of the tree in time would grow of
huge length and bignes. But here (me thinkes) I heare an vnskilfull
Arborist say, that trees haue their seuerall formes, euen by nature,
the Peare, the Holly, the Aspe, &c. grow long in bulke with few and
little armes, the Oke by nature broad, and such like. All this I graunt:
but grant me also, that there is a profitable end, and vse of euery
tree, from which if it decline (though by nature) yet man by art may
(nay must) correct it. Now other end of trees I neuer could learne, than
good timber, fruit much and good, and pleasure. Vses physicall hinder
nothing a good forme.

{SN: Trees will take any forme.}
Neither let any man euer so much as thinke, that it vnprobable, much
lesse vnpossible, to reforme any tree of what kind soeuer. For (beleeue
me) I haue tried it, I can bring any tree (beginning by time) to any
forme. The peare and holly may be made to spread, and the Oke to close.

{SN: The end of Trees.}
But why do I wander out of the compasse of mine Orchard, into the
Forrests and Woods? Neither yet am I from my purpose, if boales of
timber trees stand in n