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being restrained in the rind and bark, breaketh not 

 forth at all, as in the bodies of trees, and stalks of 

 herbs, till they begin to branch ; and then when they 

 make an eruption, they break forth casually, where 

 they find best way in the bark or rind. It is true, 

 that some trees are more scattered in their boughs ; 

 as sallow-trees, warden-trees, quince-trees, medlar- 

 trees, lemon-trees, &c. some are more in the form of 

 a pyramis, and come almost to todd; as the pear-tree, 

 which the critics will have to borrow his name of ity 

 fire, orange-trees, fir-trees, service-trees, lime-trees, 

 &c. and some are more spread and broad ; as beeches, 

 hornbeam, &c. the rest are more indifferent. The 

 cause of scattering the boughs, is the hasty breaking 

 forth of the sap ; and therefore those trees rise not in 

 a body of any height, but branch near the ground. 

 The cause of the pyramis is the keeping in of the 

 sap long before it branch ; and the spending of it, 

 when it beginneth to branch, by equal degrees. The 

 spreading is caused by the carrying up of the sap 

 plentifully without expence ; and then putting it 

 forth speedily and at once. 



589. There be divers herbs, but no trees, that may 

 be said to have some kind of order in the putting 

 forth of their leaves ; for they have joints or knuckles, 

 as it were stops in their germination ; as have gilly 

 flowers, pinks, fennel, corn, reeds, and canes. The 

 cause whereof is, for that the sap ascendeth un 

 equally, and doth, as it were, tire and stop by the 

 way. And it seemeth they have some closeness and 

 hardness in their stalk, which hindereth the sap from 



