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not to foone bloomed (if they bloomc at all) but they bring forth their fruit. And a wonderful! Q 

 thing it is to fee what abortivefruit thefe Figge-trees have, and how it never commefh to ripe- 

 nefle. Neither doc thelunipers bloome at all . Andyet fome writers there be who make two 

 kinds thereof : and they fay^ that the one doth flower,and beare nofruit : as for the other which 

 4othnot bloflbmejit brings forth fruit upon fruitj and berieupon berie, which hangtwoyeers 

 upon the tree before they come to nIatuiiiic.But this isfal(e,for in verie truth all lunipers with- 

 out cxception,have evermore a fad lookc, and at no time I'hew merie. Andthisis the cafe and 

 condition verily ofmany a man, whofcfortune is never in the flower nor maketh any outward ^ 

 fiiew to the vsorld. Howbeit there is not a tree but it buddeth^, even thofe that never bloffome ; A 

 And herein the diverfitic of the foile is of great power : for in one and the fame kind/uch as grow 

 inmarifligroundsjdo (hoot and ipringfirftjnexttothem,thofe,ofthcpIains5andlartofail they 

 of the woods &forrefts. And generally the wild Pyrries growing in woods do bud later than any 

 other. At the firft coraming of the wefterne wind Favoniusjthe Corneill tree doth bud , next to j 

 itj the Bay and fomwhat before mid-march or the Ipring yEquinodiailj the TiKet or Linden, ^ 

 and the MaplcThcPopIar^EImej Willowlj Alderjand Filberds orHazell nut trces^bud with the 

 firft . The Palme alio maketh haft and is loth to come behind. All the reft at the point and prime 

 iix rheophrap, thcfpringjnamely the Holly jtheTerebinth^thePaliuruSjihe Cheftonjand the VValnut-treesj 

 ^k^A^yoc. orMaft trecs. Appletrees are late ere they bud, but the Cor ke tree longeft of any other. Trees 

 there be that put forth bud upon b lid, by reafonthateithcr the foile is exceeding battiii and fatj 

 orelfethewcatherfairandplca(ant:and thishafncthmoretobelecn in the blades ofcorne. 

 But trees if they happen to be over ranck in new flioots and buds, they was wearie and grow out 

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Moreover,fome trees there be that naturally doe fprout at other feafons befides the fpring, 

 dccordpg to the influence of certaine ftarres, whereof the reafon fhall be rendered more con- 

 venient, in the third bookenextenfuing after this. Meanetime this would bee obferved. That 

 the vilinter fj^ring of trees is about the rifing of the /Egle-ftar : the Summer budding at the rifing 

 of the Dog-ftar : and a third, when the ftar Ardurus is up. And for the latter tw3ine,fome would 

 have them to be common verily to all trees, but moft evidently fecn, in Fig-trees, Vines, Pom- 

 gtanate trees : and they yeeld a calife , For that in ThelTalie and Macedonie the Fig tree about 

 thefe times putteth forth moft plenteoufly : & in -^gypt this reafon is to be feen moft apparant- 

 ly. As for all other treesjcertain it is,that when they begin once to bud, they hold on and fhoot* 

 forward continually without intermiffion. The wild Okejthe Fir, and the Larch tree, have their K 

 fcverall fhoots in one yeerCj and fpring at three fundry times, giving over betwecne whiles, and 

 therefore they put forth their jfproiits between the skalcsol their barks : athing ufuallyhapning 

 to all trees in their budding & breeding time jfor after they be onceconceivedjtheir rind or bark 

 doth burft withall. Now their jSrft budding is in the prime and beginning of the fprlng^and con- 

 tinucth much about fifceene dayes. They bud a fecond time in the moncth of May when the fun 

 pafleth through the fign Gemini: by which time it is evidently to be feen,how the bud heads that 

 came firft, are driven and chruft up higher by thofe that follow after , and that appeareth more 

 plainly by the cncreafe of the knots and joynts. As for the third budding, it is very Iborr^name- 

 Soijihim. ly at ^ midfommer,and lafteth not above a feven-night rand even then alfo may a man perceive 

 manifeftly by the knots and joy nts of the flioots how much they are put forth and grown . The 

 Vine alone lliooteth twice, to witjwhenfhetirftbeginnetb toburgenand put forth a grape, and 

 a fecond timc,when (he doth forme and digeft or concod the fame. As for thofe trees that blof. 

 fome not, they have no more to do but only to bring forth their fruitjand fo proceed to ripen it. 

 Now there arc fome trees, which no (boner bud,but they flicw alfo a bloflbme 5 and yet as hatty 

 as they be that way,they take their leifure afterwards,and long it is ere their fruit come to be ripe: 

 and fuch are the Vines. Others againe bee as backward and flow both to bud and bloffome 5 but 

 they make fpeed to ripen their fruit, as the Mulberie tree, which of civile and domeftieall trees^ 

 is the laft that doth bud, and never before all the cold weather is paft ; and therefore flie is called 

 the wifeft tree of all others : but after that fhe begins once to put forth buds, fhe difpatcheth her ^ 

 bufines out of hand, infomuch as in one night fbe hath done 5 and that with fuch a force, that in 

 the breaking forth a man may evidently heare a noife. Of thofe trees which do conceive in win- 

 ter, about the nfing of the ^gle-ftat, (as we have fayd before) the Almond tree is the firft that 

 doth bloffome in the monethoflanuarie, and by March the Almond is ripe. The next that 



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