Hampton-court, and St. James’s, will sufficiently instruct any man how these (and indeed all other trees which stand single) are to be govern’d, and defended from the injuries of beasts, and sometimes more unreasonable creatures, till they are able to protect themselves. In Holland (where the very high-ways are adorn’d with them) they frequently clap three or four deal-boards (in manner of a close trunk) about them; but it is not so well; because it keeps out the air, which should have free access and intercourse to the bole, and by no means be excluded from flowing freely about them, or indeed any other trees; provided they are secur’d from cattel, and the violence of impetuous winds, &c. as His Majesty’s are, without those close coffins, in which the Dutch-men seem rather to bury them alive: In the mean time, is there a more ravishing or delightful object, than to behold some intire streets, and whole towns planted with these trees, in even lines before their doors, so as they seem like cities in a wood? this is extreamly fresh, of admirable effect against the epilepsie, for which the delicately scented blossoms are held prevalent, and skreen the houses both from winds, sun, and dust; than which there can be nothing more desirable where streets are much frequented. For thus The stately Lime, smooth, gentle, streight and fair, (With which no other Dryad may compare) With verdant locks, and fragrant blossoms deckt, Does a large, ev’n, odorate shade project.{127:1} _Diræ_ and curses therefore on those inhuman and ambitious tyrants, who, not contented with their own dominions, invade their peaceful neighbour, and send their legions, without distinction, to destroy and level to the ground such venerable and goodly plantations, and noble avenues, irreparable marks of their barbarity. The distance for walks (as we said) may in rich ground, be twenty five foot, in more ordinary soil, eighteen or twenty. For a most prodigious tree of this kind, see Chap. 39. sect. 10. The berries reduc’d to powder, cure the dysentery and stop blood at the nose: The distill’d-water is good against the epilepsy, apoplexy, vertigo, trembling of the heart, gravel; Schroder commends a mucilage of the bark for wounds, _repellens urinam, & menses ciens_, &c. And I am told, the juice of the leaves fixes colours. FOOTNOTES: {127:1} Stat philyra; haud omnes formosior altera surgit Inter hamadryades; mollissima, candida, lævis, Et viridante comâ, & beneolenti flore superba, Spargit odoratam latè, atque æqualiter umbram. _Couleii_, l. 6, Pl. CHAPTER XIV. _Of the Poplar, Aspen, and Abele._