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417. The fifth is the removing of the tree some 

 month before it buddeth. The cause is, for that 

 some time will be required after the remove for the 

 re-settling, before it can draw the juice ; and that 

 time being lost, the blossom must needs come forth 

 later. 



4 1 8. The sixth is the grafting of roses in May, 

 which commonly gardeners do not till July ; and 

 then they bear not till the next year ; but if you 

 graft them in May, they will bear the same year, 

 but late. 



419. The seventh is the girding of the body of the 

 tree about with some pack-thread ; for that also in 

 a degree restraineth the sap, and make it come up 

 more late and more slowly. 



420. The eighth is the planting of them in a 

 shade, or in a hedge ; the cause is, partly the keep 

 ing out of the sun, which hasteneth the sap to rise ; 

 and partly the robbing of them of nourishment by 

 the stuff in the hedge. These means may be prac 

 tised upon other, both trees and flowers, &quot; mutatis 

 mutandis.&quot; 



421. Men have entertained a conceit that shew- 

 eth prettily; namely, that if you graft a late-coming 

 fruit upon a stock of a fruit-tree that cometh early, 

 the graft will bear fruit early ; as a peach upon a 

 cherry ; and contrariwise, if an early-coming fruit 

 upon a stock of a fruit-tree that cometh late, the 

 graft will bear fruit late, as a cherry upon a peach. 

 But these are but imaginations, and untrue. The 



