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WalnutSj they belaid along within the earcb^ with thisrcgardjthat they do lye upon their joints* G 

 As for Pinc-nuts, there would be fixe or feven of their kernels put togitberinto pots that have 

 holes in thcmjandfo buried in the ground: or els they fhould bee ordered after the manner of 

 the Bay treejwhich commeth of berries bruifed^as hath been fhcwed before. 



The Citron tree will grow of feed^and may be fee alfo of fprigs or twigs drawn to the ground 

 from the trcejSnd Co couched. Sorvife trees come of the graines thereof fowed of a quicke-fct 

 plane alfo with the root, or of a flip plucked from it. But as the Citron trees live in hot grounds, 

 fothcfc Sorvifeslovc cold and moift. 



As concerning feminarics and nourcc-gardcns^ Nature hath fhcwed us the reafon and man- 

 ner thcreofj by certain trees that put forth attherootathicke (pringof young ("boots orfions; 

 but lightly the mother that beareth thefe impsjkilleth them when (he hath done, with her fhade H 

 and dropping togither. And this is evident to be feene in Lawrels, Pomegranate trees. Planes, 

 Cherric trees, and Plum trees: for ft anding as thefe impes doejariumberof them without all 

 order under their mother ftocke, they be over-fhadowed and kept down fo,that they miflikc and 

 never come to proofc* Howbeic fome few there bee of this forr, that are not lb unkind to their 

 yong brcctljas to kill them with the lliadow of their boughs 5 and namely^Elnics and Date trees. 

 This would be obferved by the way, that no trees have fuch young imps fpringing at their feet, 

 but they only, whofe roots for love of the warmcfunne and moift rain, ipread aloft and lie ebbc 

 within the ground. Moreover, the manner is not to fet thefe young plants prefently in the place 

 where they muft remaine and continue for aItogither,but m\ they are to be beftowcd in apeccc 

 of ground where they may take nourifhmcnt, to wit, in fome nourcc- garden for the nones, un- i 

 till they be growne to a good ftaturc j and then they are to be removed a fecond time unto their 

 due place. And a woonder it is to fee, how this tranfplanting doth mitigstc even thefavage na- 

 ture of the wildeft trees that are .-whether it be that trees as wellasiiien, arc delirous of novel- 

 ties, and love to bee travailing forchaunge 5 or that as they goe from a place, they leave behind 

 them their malicious qualitic, and becingufed to the hand, become tame and gentle like the 

 wild beaftsjclpecially when fuch young plants arc plucked and taken up with the quicke root. 

 We have learned of Nature alfbj another kind of planting much like to this: for we fee that not 

 only water-llioots fpringing out of the root, but other fprigs flipped from the flocke, live and 

 doc full well : But in the pradifcof this feat, they ought to be pulkd aw4y with a colts-foot of 

 their owne,fo as they take a quicke parcell alfo of their mothers bodie with thcm,'in manner of K 

 a fringe or border hanging thereto. After this manner they ufc tofet Pomegranat, Filberd^Hu- 

 IcWj Apple, and Servifc trees ^Medlars alfb, Afhes,and Fig trees ; but Vines efpecially : mary a 

 Quince ordered and planted in that fort, will degencrat and grow to a baflard kind. From hence 

 came the invention, to fct into the ground young fprigs or twigSjCut off from the tree . This was 

 atfirft pradifcdwithfooi-fets for a prick-hedge, namely, by pitching downe into the earth, El- 

 deraQuiiice-cuftingSjand brambles ^but afterwards men began to do the like by thofe trees that 

 are more fet by, and nouriflied for other purpofes, as namely Poplars, Alders, and the Willow, 

 which of all others may be pricked into the ground with any end of the cutting or fprig downe- 

 ward,it makes no matter whether, for the fmaller end will take as well as the bigger. Now all the 

 fort of thefcjare beflowed and ranged in order at the firft hand, even as a man would have them, £ 

 and where he lift to fee them grow, neither need they any remoovingor tranfplantadonatall. 

 But before we proceed any further, to other forts of planting trees, it were good to declare the 

 manner how to order feminaries,fecd-plots, or nource-gardens, 



Fortomakcagoodpepinnierornourcc-garden, there would bcchofena principall & fpe- 

 ciallpeccc of ground itbr oftentimes it fallcth out, yea andn^eet itis,thar the nource which gi- 

 veth fucke fhould be more tender over the infant,than thcowne naturall mother that bare it. In 

 the firfl place therforc,let it be a found and dric ground, howbcit furnifhed with a gdod and fuc- 

 culcntelementallmoifbrc,and the fame broken up and after well digged over & overwithmat- 

 tockc and fpade, and brougt to temper and order/o as it be nothing coy but readie to receive all 

 manner of plants that nialTcome,and to entertaine them as welcome guefls and withall,as like M 

 as may be to that ground unto which they muft be remooved at lafl. B ut before all thingSjihis 

 would be looked unto, that it be rid cleane of all ftones jfurely fenced alfo and paled about,for 

 to keepe out cocks and hens and allpullenritmuftnotbeefuIJ of xhinkes and cranicsjforfcare 

 thac thehcat of the funnc enter in and burnc up thcfmall filaments or ftrings and beard of the 



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