- a ee 
ees 
Or Netherlandifh Hefperides, - 
ficial, which fome have Invented, 
-and Endeavoured to Recommend 
to the World for Wonders, but de- 
ceiveth none more than thofe that 
ufe itmoft, as we have touched 
upon before in part, in the De+ 
{cription of the Dung. 
The digging about is done Digging 
yearly in the Spring, againft the abouc. 
time that the Trees come out of 
the Winter-Place or Green-H oufe, 
and is nothing elfe, but a takin 
away of the uppermoft Earth of 
the Tubs two or three Fingers 
breadth deep, and filling them 
up again with other Good, in- 
ftead of the {pent and worn out 
Dung, thereby, by this maintain- 
ing, 48 much as is poffible, to 
firengthen and bring Nourifhs 
ment to the Earth in the Tubs 
_and Pots, 
Bien. CHAP. 
Or Nethérlandifh Hefperides. 139 
the more conveniently be drawn’ 
up through the openéd Pores, 
. and carried to the Place wheré 
_ they ‘are turned into Nourifh- 
ment. 
And feeing our Fle/perial Stang? 
érs want the free Ufe of the Earth 
with us, and muft be contented 
_ with fmall and nariow clofe 
'. Tubs and Pots ; it is neceffary we 
lend them the helping Hand, by 
_ bringing Water to them,which by 
the Rain, except it be of long 
continuance, cannot be fufficient» 
_ Ty given, or is hindred through 
the width arid breadth of theit 
Heads, which caule the Rain* 
Water to tun moft down by their 
Sides; wherefore thé help of wa- 
tering is highly réquifice here. 
Amon all the Parts of this 
Ordering, this is none of the leaft, 
and we muft obferve; firft, the’ 
Choice of Water, and fecondly,’ 
K. 3 a the 
198 Loc Balgid; 
« 
CS OHAR. XXX VIL 
~ her “of Watering, — 
De Me. Eing the Nourifhment of 
Halelu- Trees, « and whatfoéver 
- opiiak Grows out of the Earth, confifts 
ont of the fineft Particles of the — 
Earth and Water, which {preads 
and difperfes irfelf through f{malk 
Poresalong by-dictle Strings, like 
Veins,’ through all their Parts,and. 
bythe natural Warmth, | being 
Htrengchined with the Heat of the 
Sun, ‘which pierceth’ from with- 
out, doth turh into the Shape and: 
Form ofvthofe Parts to which it is 
brought; ‘and being . Water is - 
Necellary , ‘whichout which: no 
“Sree can Live; ‘for it ferves:ta, 
the loofening and thinning of 
“the faid Parts, that the fame may _ 
Py es the. 
140 | The Belgick 
the time when we fhall Water. 
What _Ferrarius, ( whom we here alfo 
water 1s 
to be follow) puts {weer and conftantly 
made running Spring and River-Water 
ok for the beft,as being moft Piercing, 
1.2.14. and wholefomeft, and next tothe 
Rain-Water, which is gathered 
and kept in Cifterns, or Tubs : 
and thirdly, Well or Pump-Wa- 
ter, which is commonly Cold, " 
hath many Defaults and Proper- 
ues which it carries with it out of 
the different Grounds, whence it 
Springs. : 
Much lefs in Virtue is the Wa- 
tet which comes out of Moorifh 
Places ; but worft of all is that of 
ftanding Lakes, and Ponds ; al- 
fo that which is thick, faltifh, 
brackifh , - fulphureous, and of — 
grofs Parts, which muft be «re- 
jected for this Ufe, and that only, 
be chofen which is here above Ap- 
proved, viz, that VVater which, 
; i hath 
