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riment is nothing but potting of plants without re 

 moving, and leaving the fruit in the earth. The 

 like, they say, will be effected by an empty pot 

 without earth in it, put over a fruit, being propped 

 up with a stake, as it hangeth upon the tree ; and 

 the better, if some few pertusions be made in the 

 pot. Wherein, besides the defending of the fruit 

 from extremity of sun or weather, some give a 

 reason, that the fruit loving and coveting the open 

 air and sun, is invited by those pertusions to spread 

 and approach as near the open air as it can ; and so 

 enlargeth in magnitude. 



471. All trees in high and sandy grounds are to 

 be set deep, and in watery grounds more shallow. 

 And in all trees, when they be removed, especially 

 fruit-trees, care ought to be taken, that the sides of 

 the trees be coasted, north and south, &c. as they 

 stood before. The same is said also of stone out of 

 the quarry, to make it more durable, though that 

 seemeth to have less reason ; because the stone lieth 

 not so near the sun, as the tree groweth. 



472. Timber trees in a coppice wood do grow 

 better than in an open field ; both because they 

 offer not to spread so much, but shoot up still in 

 height ; and chiefly because they are defended from 

 too much sun and wind, which do check the growth 

 of all fruit ; and so, no doubt, fruit-trees, or vines, 

 set upon a wall against the sun, between elbows or 

 buttresses of stone, ripen more than upon a plain 

 wall. 



473. It is said, that if potado-roots be set in a 



