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without danger, if you have any good regard to them 

 unlefie it be a young bearing Root, which you (hall 

 in fo doing much hinder , becaufe ic is yet tender by 

 reafon it beareth now the firfl flower, but all Tulip 

 •Roots when their [bike and leaves are dry^ may moil 

 fafely then be taken out of the ground, ml be fo 

 kept ( fo that they lye in a drye, air] not in a inorft 

 place ) for fix monerhs wi thout any great harme, yea 

 I have kno.vn them that have had them nine monechs 

 out of the ground , and have done reafonable well, 

 but this you mult underfbnd wichall , that thev have 

 not beene young but elder Roots , and have beene 

 orderly taken up and preserved- ; the dryer you keep 

 a Tulip Root the better, fo as you let it not lye in 

 the Sun or the Wind, which will pierce and fpoiie 

 it. 



Num.5. Of annoyance by Plants growing too thicl^and 

 neer together , arid of the remedy thereof , and. im- 

 provement by pruning Trees, and fitting' them at 



s. great ciiftances ; "pinching off th* yong Germens of 

 Cjar den-flower s> to make the reft more fair ; of the 

 fidng of Turnep, (farrots^ Parfneps ; of Weed- 

 ing. 



There is no greater hindrance to the growth and 

 thriving of all Vegetables, than to be fo crowded to- 

 gether, that their Roots, Branches and Leaves, in- 

 terfere one with another;and therefore in all Orchard 

 and Garden-plants, whofe Fruit and Flowers you re- 

 quire fair, and whofe growth you would have con- 

 siderable, provide that they keep their diftances •* 

 Apple-Trees, Pear-Trees, Plum-Trees, Cherries, 

 and other Plants* are of diverfe ftatures , both in re- 

 gard 



