Sylva; Or, A Discourse of Forest Trees. Vol. 1 (of 2)

Among the prose writers of the second half of the seventeenth century John Evelyn holds a very distinguished position. The age of the Restoration and the Revolution is indeed ri...

1. _Abies_, _picea_, _pinus_, _pinaster_, larsh, &c. are all of them easily rais’d of the kernels and nuts, which may be gotten out of their polysperm and turbinate cones, clogs...

1. _Robur_, the oak; I have sometimes consider’d it very seriously, what should move _Pliny_ to make a whole chapter of one only line, which is less than the argument alone of m...

Should I forget the cedar? which grows in all extreams; in the moist Barbadoes, the hot Bermudas, (I speak of those trees so denominated) the cold New England, even where the sn...

1. Our main plantation is now finish’d, and our forest adorned with a just variety: But what is yet all this labour, but loss of time, and irreparable expence, unless our young,...

So many are the infirmities and sicknesses of trees, and indeed of the whole family of vegetables, that it were almost impossible to enumerate and make a just catalogue of them;...

1. The _arbutus_, (by us call’d the strawberry-tree) too much I think neglected by us; making that a rarity, which grows so common and naturally in Ireland: It is indeed with so...

1. _Qui vineam, vel arbustum constituere volet, seminaria prius facere debebit_, was the precept of Columella, l. 3. c. 5. speaking of vineyards and fruit-trees: and doubtless,...

1. _Salix_: Since Cato has attributed the third place to the _salictum_, preferring it even next to the very ortyard; and (what one would wonder at) before even the olive, meado...

1. The birch [_betula_, in British _bedw_, doubtless a proper indigene of England, (whence some derive the name of Barkshire) though Pliny calls it a Gaulish tree] is altogether...

1. _Ulmus_ the elm, there are four or five sorts, and from the difference of the soil and air divers spurious: Two of these kinds are most worthy our culture, the vulgar, viz. t...

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,...

1. It is not my intention here to speak of earth, as one of the common reputed elements; of which I have long since publish’d an ample account, in an express Treatise (annexed t...

1. _Juglans, quasi Jovis glans_, the{101:1} wall or welch-nut (though no where growing of it self, some say, in Europe) is of several sorts; Monsieur Rencaume (of the French Aca...

We do not exclude this useful tree from those of the glandiferous and forest; but being inclin’d to gratify the curious, I have been induc’d to say something farther of such _se...

1. _Fraxinus_ the ash, is with us reputed male and female, the one affecting the higher grounds; the other the plains, of a whiter wood, and rising many times to a prodigious st...

1. _Populus._ I begin this second class (according to our former distribution) with the poplar, of which there are several kinds; white, black, &c. (which in Candy ’tis reported...

1. The next is the chesnut, [_castanea_] of which Pliny reckons many kinds, especially about Tarentum and Naples; Janus Cornarius, upon that of Aetius, (_verbo_ Δρῦς) speaks of...

1. _Platanus_, that so beautiful and precious tree, anciently sacred to{214:1} Helena, (and with which she crown’d the _Lar_, and _Genius_ of the place) was so doated on by Xerx...

1. _Tilia_ the lime-tree, or [linden] is of two kinds; the male (which some allow to be but a finer sort of elm) or maple rather, is harder, fuller of knots, and of a redder col...

1. The maple [_acer minus_] (of which authors (see Salmasius upon _Solinus_, c. 33.) reckon very many kinds) was of old held in equal estimation almost with the citron; especial...

I. The beech, [_fagus_] (of two or three kinds) and numbred amongst the glandiferous trees, I rank here before the martial ash, because it commonly grows to a greater stature. B...

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...

1. _Nux silvestris_, or _corylus_, the hasel, is best rais’d from the{136:1} nuts, (also by suckers and layers) which you shall sow like mast, in a pretty deep furrow toward the...

1. _Sorbus_, the service-tree (of which there are four sorts) is rais’d of the chequers, or berries, which being ripe (that is) rotten, about September (and the pulp rub’d off c...

1. _Alnus_, the alder, (both _conifera_ and _jülifera_) is of all other the most faithful lover of watery and boggy places, and those most despis’d weeping parts, or water-galls...

1. The quick-beam [_ornus_, or as the _pinax_ more peculiarly, _fraxinus bubula_; others, the wild sorb] or (as some term it) the witchen, is a species of wild-ash. The Berries...

In the original, the marker for footnote 2 on page lxxx was by “not the Majesty of a _Consul_”, but the text of footnote 3 clearly belongs to this marker. It has been assumed th...

1. The sycomor, or wild fig-tree, (falsly so called) is, our _album_, _acer majus_, or broad-leav’d _mas_, one of the maples, and is much more in reputation for its shade than i...

œ ligatures changed to æ on page 29 in “are the _nuciferæ_, &c. to the _coniferæ_, _resiniferæ_, _squammiferæ_, &c. belong the whole tribe of cedars, firs, pines, &c. apples, pe...

„ II. Of the Seminary and of Transplanting „ 12 „ III. Of the Oak „ 30 „ IV. Of the Elm „ 62 „ V. Of the Beech „ 75 „ VI. Of the Horn-beam „ 81 „ VII. Of the Ash „ 86 „ VIII. Of...

„ II. Of Pruning „ 8 „ III. Of the Age, Stature, and Felling of Trees „ 24 „ IV. Of Timber, the Seasoning and Uses, and of Fuel „ 80 „ V. Aphorisms, or certain General Precepts...

„ II. Of the Platanus, Lotus, Cornus, Acacia, &c. „ 214 „ III. Of the Fir, Pine, Pinaster, Pitch-tree, Larsh, and Subterranean trees „ 220 „ IV. Of the Cedar, Juniper, Cypress,...

Introduction page ix Title Page of 4th Edition „ lxxiii To the King „ lxxv To the Reader „ lxxvii Advertisement „ xcix Books published by the Author „ ci Amico carissimo „ cii N...