uncover no more but the tops of the old fets, bite 

 cut no Roots before the end of March, or beginning 

 cf zAfrif. Tbe rirlt year of dreifmg, you muftcut 

 off all fuch as grew the year before, within one 

 inch of the fame: and every ye .ir after, cut them as 

 clofe to the old Roots ; thofe that grow downward, 

 are not to be cut, they be thofe that grow outward, 

 which will incrmbcr yo«r Garden, the difference be- 

 tween old andne v eaiily appears ; you will finde your 

 old fets not increafed in length, but a little in big- 

 nefs, and in few years, all your fets will be grown- 

 into one ; and by the colour alfo, the main Root be- 

 ing red, the other white ; but if this be not early 

 done, then they will not be perceived : And if you-n 

 fets be f.nall, and placed in good ground, the Hill 

 well maintained;, the new Roots will be greiter then 

 the old ; if they grow to wilde Hops, the iblks will 

 wax red, pluck them up and plant new in their 

 places. 



N.4. Mr.Par&nfons way of ordering the feedings of 

 Tulips grown. 



After the Tulip feed is fowne , the firft yeares 

 fpringingbiingeth (eaves little bigger then the ordi- 

 nary grafle leaves ; The fecond yeare bigger, and fo 

 :>y degree^, every year bigger then other. 1 he leaves 

 )f the praxoces, while they be young, may be ciifcer- 

 aed from the Media's, by this note which I have ob- 

 served, The leaves of them do ftand above ground , 

 hewing the fmall foo: -(hikes whereby every Icafe 

 iothitond ; but the leaves of the Media's or Sero- 

 ines do" never ,\ho!y appear out of the ground , bue 



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