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done bearing, and then they will come again the 

 same year about November : but they will not come 

 just on the tops where they were cut, but out of those 

 shoots which were, as it were, water boughs. The 

 cause is, for that the sap, which otherwise would 

 have fed the top, though after bearing, will, by the 

 discharge of that, divert unto the side sprouts, and 

 they will come to bear, but later. 



414. The second is the pulling off the buds of 

 the rose, when they are newly knotted ; for then the 

 side branches will bear. The cause is the same with 

 the former ; for cutting off the tops, and pulling off 

 the buds, work the same effect, in retention of the 

 sap for a time, and diversion of it to the sprouts that 

 were not so forward. 



415. The third is the cutting off some few of 

 the top boughs in the spring time, but suffering the 

 lower boughs to grow on. The cause is, for that 

 the boughs do help to draw up the sap more 

 strongly ; and we see that in polling of trees, many 

 do use to leave a bough or two on the top, to help 

 to draw up the sap. And it is reported also, that if 

 you graft upon the bough of a tree, and cut off some 

 of the old boughs, the new cions will perish. 



416. The fourth is by laying the roots bare 

 about Christmas some days. The cause is plain, for 

 that it doth arrest the sap from going upwards for 

 a time ; which arrest is afterwards released by the 

 covering of the root again with earth ; and then the 

 sap getteth up but later. 



