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beaten off the tree : Or if before, they be set with 

 husk and all upon them ; for the extream bitterness 

 thereof is most exitial and deadly to worms ; or it 

 were good to strew some furzes (broken or chopp'd 

 small) under the ground amongst them, to preserve 

 them from mice and rats, when their shells begin to 

 wax tender ; especially if, as some, you supple them 

 a little in warm cows milk ; but being treated as 

 before, you will find them already sprouted, and have 

 need only to be planted where they are to abide ; 

 because (as we said long since) they are most impatient 

 of transplanting : But if there be an absolute neces- 

 sity of removing, let your tree never be above four 

 years old, and then by no means touch the head with 

 your knife, nor cut away so much as the very top- 

 root, being so old, if you can well dispose of it, since 

 being of a pithy and hollow substance, the least dimin- 

 ution, or bruise, will greatly endanger the killing : 

 But see here what we have said of the chesnut. I 

 have been told, that the very tops, and palish buds of 

 this tree, when it first sprouts, though as late as April, 

 will take hold of the ground, and grow to an incred- 

 ible improvement ; but first they steep them in milk 

 and saffron ; but this attempt did not succeed with us, 

 yet it will be propagated by a branch slipp'd off with 

 some of the old wood, and set in February : An 

 industrious and very experienc'd husbandman told 

 me, that if they be transplanted as big as ones middle, 

 it may be done safer than when younger ; I do only 

 report it : What they hint of putting a tile-shard 

 under the nuts when first set, to divaricate and spread 

 the roots (which are otherwise apt to penetrate very 

 deep) I like well enough ; 'tis certain they will receive 

 their own cyons being grafFed, and that it does 



