92 | Nawal ify, = ae 
Drink incorporate with Flefh ot Roots (as in Capon-Beer, Oe.) will 1 nour “ 
. more eafily than Meat and Drink taken feverally. 
413. The Houfing of Plants (I conceive) will both Acceletare Geitiidaciod| | 
and bring forth Flowers and Plants in the colder Seafons : And as we Houle- 
hot Councrey Plants, as Lemmons, Orenges, Myrtles,to fave them ; fo we may 
Houfe our own Country Plants to forward them, and make them come in 
the cold Seafons, in fuch fort, that you may have Violets, Strawberries, Peafe, | 
all Winter: So that you fow or remove them at fittimes. This Experiment | | 
is to be referred unto the comforting of the Spirit of thePlant by warmth, as | 
well as Houfing their Boughs, &c. Sothenthe means to saat Germi- 
nation, are in 1 particular eight, in general three. 
J ; 
413. 
Experiments 
in Confort, 
touching the 
Putting back 
or Retardation 
of Germina-_ 
thowe 
™O make Ro/es or other lowers comelate, it isan Experiment of -Pleafure. 
T Forthe Ancients efteemed much of Rofa Sera, andindéed the November | 
Rofe is the fweetelt, having been lefs exhaled by the Sun. The Means are 
thefe, Firft, The cutting off their tops immediately after they have done bear. | 
ing, and then they will come again the fame year about November; but they | 
will not come juft on the tops where they Were cur, but out of thofe Shoots a 
which were (as it were) Water-boughs. ‘The caule is, for thar taeSap, 4 
which otherwife would have fed the top, (though after bearing) will, by 
the difcharge of thar, oe unto the Siae- ieee and they will come to | 
bear, but later. , | 
The feboad isthe Paling ne the Buds of the Rofe, whes they ate newly | 
knotted, for then the fide Branches will bear. The caufe is the ie withthe | 
former: For cutting off the Tops, and pulling off the Buds, work the fame effea, in | 
Retenfion of the Sap fora time, and Diverfion of it to the Sprouts that were | 
not foforward. ; 
The third is the cutting off roan felw oF tite Top-boughs in the Spring 
time but fuffering the lower Boughsto grow on. The caufeis, for that the } 
Boughs do help to draw up the Sap mere ftrongly ; and we'fee that in ; 
Pouling of Trees, many do ule to leave a Bough or two on the top to} 
help to draw up the Sap. And it is reported alfo, That if yougraft upon | : 
the Bough of a Tree, and cut off forme of the old Boughs; the new Cions | . 
will perth 
The fourth is by laying the Roots bare about Chriftmas {ome aij The | 
caufe is plain, for that it doch atreft the Sap from going upwards for atime; } 
which arteft, is afterwards releafed by the covéring of the Root again wich | | 
Barth, and then the Sap getteth up, but later. | 
417. |. “The fifth is theremoving of the Tree fome Moneth befere’ it Buddethi, a 
cee & The caufe i is, forthatfome time will be required after the Remove, for the } 
| Refetling, before itcan draw the MS and that time being loft, thebloffom | 
muft needs come forth later, 
| Thefixth is the Grafting of Rofes in My, which commonly Gardiner | 
donot till July, and thea they bear not till the next year 5 ‘but if vos 
them i in May, they will bear the fame year, butlare. ) 
| Thefeventh isthe Gitding of the Body of the Tree about wiht fo ve | 
| Packthred-5 for thatalfo in a degree : reftraineththe Sap, Babine itcon € 
| up more late, and more flowly. | A 
: The eighth isthe Plaiiting of threo in'a Shade orina Hedge, Thees : 
| is, pattly the keeping out of the Sun, whieh haftnéth the Sap: torife, : 
partly: the tities of thet of Nourifhment ii the ftuff in the | 
414. 
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