Book 1. "of Plans, 
«Am Appendix. 
Of Trunk-Roots and Clafpers. 
f | HE diftin& Parts whereof thefe are compofed, are the fame 
with thofe of the Trunk, , and but the continuation of them. 
1. $. Trunk: Roots are of two kinds: Of the one, are thofe that 
vegetate by a direét defent: The place of their Eruption is fome- 
times all along the Trunk 5 asin Mint, &c. Sometimes only at its 
utmoft point, as in the Bravsble. 
2. 2. The other fort are fach asneither aftend nor defcend, but 
fhoot forth at right Angles with the Trwwk 5 which therefore, though 
asto their Office, they are true Roots, yetas to their Nature, they are 
a Middle Thing betwixt a Root and a Trunk, 
3+ $. Clafpers, though they are but of one kind, yet their Na- 
turcis double; not a mean betwixit that of the Root and that of the 
Trunk, but a compound of both; as in their Circumvolutions, wheres 
in they often mutually afcend and defcend, is feen. 
4. $. The ufe of thefe Parts may be obferved as the Trunk Mounts, 
or as it Trails. In the mounting of the Truk, they are for Sup- 
port and Supply. For Support, we fee the Clafpers of Vines: the 
Branches whereof being very long, fragile and flenders unleß by 
their Clafpers, they were mutually contain’d together, they muft 
needs by their own weight, and that oftheir Fruit, undecently fall 5 
and be alfo liable to frequent breaking, So that the whole care 
is divided betwixt the Gardener and Nature; the Gardener, with 
his E nts of Leather, fecures the main Branches; and Nature, 
with of her own finding, fecuresthe Leß. Their Conveniency 
to which end, is fen in their C. ircumvolutions, a motion, not proper 
to any other Part: As allo in their toughnef, though much more 
flender than the Branches whereon they are appendent. 
5. $- The Clafpers of Bryony have a retrograde motion about eve- 
ry Third Circle, tothe forma Doublet-Clafp. Probably for the more 
certain holds which, if it mif one way, it may be fure to take 
another, 
he 
For Supply, we fee the Trumk-Roots of Ivy. For mount- 
y high, being of a clofer or more compact Subftance than 
7 p could not be fufficiently füpplied to the upper 
Sprouts, unleßthefe, to the Mother-Root, were joyntly affiftant. Yet 
ferve they for fupport likewife ; whence they fhoot out, not as in 
Creffes, Brook-lime, Exc. recipocrally on each fide, but commonly, all 
on one; that fo they may be faltn he nearelt hand. 
7- $. In the Trailing of the k, they ferve for ftabiliment, 
propagation and fhade. > the Clafpers of Cucumbers 
are of good ule. Fo: d Branches being long and fragile, 
sof the Winds would ir ally hoife them to and fro, to 
the dammage both of themfelves and their tender Fruits, -i 
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