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 _juelas_ 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.