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CHAP. IX. 



The manner and way how to />/ant y order, and keepe other trees that 

 /it'll n' grt't'Ht' It'tiiia continually. 



THe way to order thofe trees that beare their leaues greene continually, is dif- 

 fering from all others that doe not fo : for neyther are they to bee planted or 

 remoued at the time that all other trees are fet, nor doe they require that man- 

 ner of drelling, pruining and keeping, that others doe. And although many ignorant 

 perlnn and (i;irdiners doe remoue Bay trees, and are fo likewife perfwaded that all 

 other trees of that nature, that is, that carry their greene leaues continually, may 

 bee remoued in Autumne or Winter, as well as all other trees may bee, yet it 

 taine it is a great chance if they doe thriue and profper that are fet at that 

 time, or rather it is found by experience, that fcarce one of ten profpereth well that 

 are fo ordered. Now in regard that there be diuers trees and Ihrubs mentioned here in 

 this booke that beare euer greene leaues, wherein there is very great beauty, and many 

 take pleafure in them ; as the ordinary Bay, the Rofe Bay, and the Cherry Bay trees, 

 the Indian Figge, the Cyprefle, the Pine tree, the Mirtle and dwarfe Boxe, and many 

 others; I will here Ihew you how to plant and order them, as is fitteft for them. For 

 in that they doe not Ihed their greene leaues in winter as other trees doe, you may in 

 reafon be perl waded that they are of another nature ; and fo they are indeede : for fee- 

 in- they all grow naturally in warme Countries, and are from thence brought vnto vs, 

 we mull both plant'them in a warmer place, and tranfplant them in a warmer time then 

 other trees be, or elfe it is a great hazzard if they doe not perilh and dye, the cold and 

 frofts in the winter being able to pierce them through, if they (hould bee tranfplanted 

 in winter, before they haue taken roote. You muft obferue and take this therefore for 

 a certaine rule, that you alwaies remoue fuch trees or fhrubbes as are euer greene in the 

 fpring of the yeare, and at no time elfe if you will doe well, that is, from the end of 

 March, or beginning ot Aprill, vnto the middle or end of May, efpecially your more 

 dainty and tender plants, (hadowing them alfo for a while from the heate of the Sun, 

 and giuing them a littje water vpon their planting or tranfplanting ; but fuch water as 

 hath not perfently been drawn from a Well or Pumpe, for that will go neer to kill any 

 plant, but fuch water as hath flood in the open ayre for a day at the leall, if not two or 

 three. Yet for dwarfe Boxe I confelTe it may endure one moneth to be earlier planted 

 then the reft, becaufe it is both a more hardy and lowe plant, and thereby not fo much 

 fubiect to the extremitie of the colde : but if you (hould plant it before winter, the 

 frolls would raife it out of the ground, becaufe it cannot fo foone at that time of the 

 yeare take roote, and thereby put it in danger to be loft. Moreouer all of them will 

 not abide the extremitie of our winter frofts, and therefore you muft of neceflity houfe 

 fome of them, as the Rofe Bay, Mirtle, and fome others, but the other forts being fet 

 where they may bee fomewhat defended from the cold windes, frolics, and fnow in 

 winter, with fome couering or Ihelter for the time, will reafonably well endure and 

 beare their fruit, or the moft of them. If any be delirous to be furniihed with (lore of 

 thele kinds of trees that will be nourfed vp in our Country, he may by fowing the feed 

 of them in fquare or long woodden boxes or chells made for that purpofe, gaine plenty 

 ot them : but hee muft be carefull to couer them in winter with fome ftraw or fearne, 

 or beane hame, or fuch like thing layd vpon crofle Ilicks to beare it vp from the plants, 

 and after two or three yeares that they are growne fomewhat great and ftrong, they 

 may bee tranfplanted into fuch places you meane they (hall abide : yet it is not amifle 

 to defend them the rirll yeare after they are tranfplanted, for their more fecuritie : the 

 1 cedes that are moft vfually fowen with vs, are, the Cyprefle tree, the Pine tree, the 

 Baye, the Pyracantha or prickly Corall tree, and the Mirtle : the Rofe Bay I haue had 

 alfo rilen trom the feede that was frelh, and brought me from Spaine. But as for Orenge 

 trees, becaufe they are fo hardly preferued in this our cold climate (vnlelTe it bee with 

 fome that doe bellow the houfing of them, befides a great deale more of care and re- 

 fpect vnto them) from the bitternelTe of our cold long winter weather (although their 



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