Being pruin’d it heals the scar immediately, and is not apt to put forth so soon again as other trees. The stagnant water in the hollow-trees cures the most obstinate tetters, scabs, and scurfs, in man or beast, fomenting the part with it; and the leaves chew’d are wholsome for the gums and teeth, for which the very buds, as they are in winter hardned and dried upon the twigs, make good tooth-pickers. Swine may be driven to mast about the end of August: But it is observ’d, that where they feed on’t before it be mature, it intoxicates them for a while; and that generally their fat is not so good and solid, but drips away too soon. In the mean time, the kernels of the mast are greedily devour’d by squirels, mice, and above all, the dormice, who harbouring in the hollow-trees, 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 Carinthiæ, 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 æquora 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 _jülas_ 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 ζυγία) 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;