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three or four years ; asthe Violet, Straw-berry, Burnet, Prim-rofe,and Sorrel. 7 
and Buglof', which feem fo alike when they are alive, differ in their deaths; for Bo 
| will laft but one year, Buglofs will laft more. , oe 
14. But many fot Herbs bear their age and years better; Ay/fop, th me, Savory, | Pot-mar- | 
joram, Balm, wormwood, Germander, Sage, andthe like. Fennel dies yearly in the ftalk, | 
buds again from the root: but ‘we and Sweet-marjoram can, better endute age | 
winter ; for being fet in a very warm place and wel-fenced, they will live more than | 
one year. Itis known, thataknot of Apffop twice a year thorn hath continued forty 
ears. oe 1 DE 
: Bufbes and shrubs liye threefcore years, and fome double as much. A Vive may at. 
tain to threefcore years; and contiaue fruitful in theold age. Rofe-mary well placed 
will comealfo to threcfcote years ; but white Thorn and /vy endure above an hundted- 
years. As for the Bramble, the age thereof is not certainly known, hecaufe bowin 
" the head to the ground it gets new roots, fo as you cannot diftinguith the old from 
the new. 2] Seana cles | 
16. Amonelt great Trees the longeft livers are the Oat, the Holm, Wild-afh, the Elm, | 
the Beech. tree, the Chef-nut, the Plane.tree, Ficus Ruminuls, the Lore tree, the » alps. | 
olive, the Palm-tree and the Mulberry tree, Of thefe, fome have come to the age of | 
ighthundred years; but the leaft livers of them doattain to two hundred. ely i 
17, But Trees Cdorate, or that have {weet woods, and Trees Rozennie, laft longer in their 
Woods or Timber than thofe above-faid, but they are not fo lotig-liv’d ; as the Cyprefs- | 
trees. Maple,Pine,Box, Funiper. “The Cedar being born out by the vaftnefs of his body, | . 
lives well-near as long as the former. ae 
18. The .4/h, fertileand forward in bearing, reacheth to anhundred years and fomewhat 
better ; which alfo the Birch, ~Maple, and Sirvice.tree {ometimes do: but the 
Poplar, Lime-tree, villow, and that which they eall the Sycomore, and w alaut-tree, live | 
not fo long. ee . 
19. The e4pple. tree, Pear-tree, Plum-tree, Pomegranate-tree, Citron-tree, Adedlay-tree, 
Black. cherry. tree, Cherry-tree, may attain to fifty-or fixty years ; efpecially ifthey be | 
cleanfed from the Mofs wherewith fome of them are cloathed. Sh Set 
20. Generally, greatnefs of body in trees, if otherthings be equal, hath fome congruity | 
with length of life; fo hath hardne/s of fubjlance: and treesbearing Maf? or Nats are | 
commonly longer livers than trees bearing Fruit or Berries: likewife trees putting forth 
their leaves late, and thedding them late again, live longer than thofe that are early 
either in Teaves or fruit s the like is pf weld-trees in comparifon of Orchard-trees. And | — 
laftly, in the fame kind, trees that bear a fowr fruit out-live thofe that bear a fweer 
fruit. 
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Riftotle noted well the difference between Plants and living Creatures, im refpel} of } 
their Nourifhment azd Reparation: DX amely, that the bodies of living Creatures 
are confined withiz certain bounds, and that after they be come to their full growth they | 
are continued and preferved by Nourithment, but they put forth nothing new except Hair.| 
and Nails, whith are counted for no better than Excrements ; fo as the juice of living |” 
creatures mu/? of neceffity fooner wax old: butin Trees, which put forth yearly new boughs, | 
new fhoots, wewleaves, and new fruits, st comes to pafs that all thefe parts in \rees are Mf 
once a year young and renewed. Now zt being fo, that whatfoever 1s fre(b and young § — 
draws the Nourithment more lively and chearfully to ct than that which 1s decayed andold, } 
tt happens withall, that the {tock and body of the tree, through which the fap paffeth to the | 
branches, 7s refre/hed and cheared with a more bountiful and vigorous nouri{hment 47 the } 
palfage than otherwife it would have been. And this appears manifest ( though Ariftotle } 
noted it not, neither hath he exprefjed thefe things fo clearly and per|picnonfly) in Hedges, >. 
Copfes, and Pollards, when the plathing, fhedding, or lopping comforteth the old ftem or | 
ftock, and makech it more flourifhing and longer-lv'd. ae 
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