wr) ‘% -< + Th . 
my > ' ea — Maia, 
oo many 
Naw Fifletyy 
&c. The like is continually practifed with Vines, Rofes, Musk-Ro; es, 
| Xe. oon a 
Froria A44y to July youmay take off the Bark of any Bough, being of 
the bignefs of ‘Three or four Inches, and cover the bare place, .fomewhat 
| above and below with Loam, welltempered with Horfe-dung; bindia ait 
faft down. Then cut-off the Bough about Alhollantide m the bare place, and 
fet itin Ground, and ie will growtobe.a fair Tree in one yeats), dhe caulla 
may be, for that the Bearing from the Bark, keepeth the Sap from defeends | 
ing towards Winter, and {o holdethitinthe Bough; and it may.bealfo, that’ 
Loam and Horfe-dung applied tothe bare place, do moiften it and cherifh 
| ic, and make it more apt to put forth the Root. Note, thatthis may be a 
general means forkeeping up the Sap of Trees in their Boughs,/ which may 
{erve to other effets. ae tata stom ; 
Ic hath been pradtifed in Trees that fhew fair and bear not, to bore a 
hole thorow the Heart of the Tree, and thereuponit will bear. Which may | 
be, for that the Tree before hath too much Repletion, and, was opprefled 
with his own Sap; ae aed is. an enemy toGeneration. ¥is ) oof 
It hath been practifedin Trees thatdonotbear, to cleave two or three } 
of the chief Roots, and to put into the Cleft a fmall Pebble which may | 
Keep it open, and then it willbear. The caufe may be, for that a Root of} 
a Tree may be (as it were) hide-bound, no lefsthen the Body of the Tree; | 
but it will not keep open without fomewhat put into it. lenigaiad a 
Itis ufually practifed to fet Trees that require much Sun, upon Walls | 
againft the South ; as e//pricots, Peaches, Plumbs, Vines, Fags, and the like. Ic | 
hatha double commodity ; the one, the heap the Wall by reflexion; the } 
other, the taking away of the fhade: For whena Tree groweth round, the’! 
upper Boughs over fhaddow the lower, but when it is pred upon a Wall, | 
the Sun cometh alike upon the upper and lowerBranches; ee | 
It hath alfo been practifed (by fome) to pull fome Leaves from: the 
Trees fo fred, that the Sunmay come upon the Bough and Fruit the bet-} 
ter. There hathbeen practifed alfo a curiofity, to feta Tree uponthe North | 
fide of a Wall, and ata little height,-todraw him through the Wall; andi 
fred him upon the South fide ; conceiving, that the Root and lower. part}|| 
of the Stock fhould enjoy the frefhnefs of the fhade,' and the upper Boughs } 
and Fruit, the comfort of the Sun; but itforted not. The caufe is, for that | 
the Root requireth {ome comfort from the Sun, though under Earth, as well} 
asthe Body; and the lower part of the Body more tlt the upper, as we | 
{ee in compafling a I'ree below with itraw- Big Sa 
elownels ofthe Bough, wherethe Fruit cometh, maketh the Fruit | 
eed and to better ; foryou fhallever fee in Apricotes, Peaches, Ox | 
¢ WMelo-Cotones upon 
_| France the Grapesthat 
Wall, the greateft Fruits towards thebottom. And in|) 
make the Wine, grow upon the low Vines, boundto}} | 
~ ge Stakes ; andthe raifed Vines in Arbors, make but Verjuyce. It is} 
true, that‘in Ztaly, and other Countreys where they have hotter Sun, they 
raife them upon Elms and Trees: But Iconceive, that if the French man= 
\ner of Planting low, were brovight inufe, their Wines would be ftronger 
andfweeter : But it is more chargeable in refped of the Props. It were 
| good to try whether a Tree grafted fomewhat near the ground, and the 
lower Boughs onely maintained, and the higher continually proyn 
| would notmake a larger Fruit. | ? cen ae 
: on To have Fruit in greater Plenty, theway is to graft, not onely 
ane Stocks, but upon divers Boughs of an old Trees for they wi. 
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432, 
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