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causes why grains, seeds, and fruits, are more nou 

 rishing than leaves, is the length of time in which 

 they grow to maturation. It were not amiss to keep 

 back the sap of herbs, or the like, by some fit means, 

 till the end of summer, whereby it may be, they will 

 be more nourishing. 



467. As grafting doth generally advance and 

 meliorate fruits, above that which they would be if 

 they were set of kernels or stones, in regard the 

 nourishment is better concocted ; so, no doubt, even 

 in grafting, for the same cause, the choice of the 

 stock doth much, always provided that it be some 

 what inferior to the cion, for otherwise it dulleth it. 

 They commend much the grafting of pears or ap 

 ples upon a quince. 



468. Besides the means of melioration of fruits 

 before mentioned, it is set down as tried, that a mix 

 ture of bran and swines dung, or chaff and swines 

 dung, especially laid up together for a month to 

 rot, is a very great nourisher and comforter to a 

 fruit-tree. 



469. It is delivered, that onions wax greater if 

 they be taken out of the earth, and laid a drying 

 twenty days, and then set again ; and yet more, if 

 the outermost pill be taken off all over. 



470. It is delivered by some, that if one take 

 the bough of a low fruit-tree newly budded, and 

 draw it gently, without hurting it, into an eathern 

 pot perforate at the bottom to let in the plant, 

 and then cover the pot with earth, it will yield a 

 very large fruit within the ground. Which expe- 



