The fevenCeeiltli Eooke of 



Hire you, this praaife fometimes fpeeds well^ and doth the deed ; provided akaicsj that the na-^ G 

 fcedpbce were not furpuifed before the cure^with extrenvitieeidierof coid orheat . Certaioeic 

 is^that by this meanes both kinds of the Oke^ as well theRobur as the QuerGUSj^Jiverthelongerj 

 and die nothing lb foonc as otherwife they would. And herein the time of the yeere ought to be 

 GonCidercdjwhen a tree is thus pilled and disbarked : for in cafe that a man pill the barke of the 

 Firrc or Pine tree, during thofe moneihs wherein thefunne pafleth through the fignes of Tau- 

 rus or Gemini, which is the very leafon of their buddings there is no way but one with them, lot 

 prefently they die : but if this wrong (liould befall them in winter, they \vould abide it the bet- 

 ter and longer live, than beeingfomifufed cither in AprillorMay. The fameis thecafeofthe 

 mall HoIme,the wild Robur alio, and the common Oke . Howbeit, take this note by tlic way, 

 that if the void place where the tree hath ben barked round aboutjbe but narrow, fo as the brims H 

 of the barke remaining be not farre afunder, the trees aforefaid will take noharme at all there- 

 by. Mary in the tenderer fortj andfuchasa man may fay are butof aweake complexion, and 

 growing beiides in a Icanc and hungrie ground, if the barke be taken away but of one fide and 

 no more,it is enough to kill them. 



The like may be faid of the topping or beheading the Cyprefle, thePitchtree, andthe Ce- 

 dar; for let thelchave their heads either cut off with £n axe, or burnt by fire, they will die^ there 

 is no remedie. Asmuchalfo isto beef^idawhenbeaftsdoe broule and eat them. As for the 

 Olive tree, if aGoatchauncebuttolicke thereof^ it will thereupon proovebarraine and beare 

 no more Olives ifb faith r^m, as wee have noted heretofore. But as fome trees upon the like 

 injurie done unto them, will die, fb others againe will be but the worfe fur it ; and 1 uch arc the ! 

 Almond trees: for where before they did beare fweet Almonds, they will ever after bring bitter. 

 Moreoverjyou iliallhave fome trees, that wilil thrive and doe the better after this hard dea- 

 h'ng, and namely, a kind oi PearetrcecallcdPiiocis, in the Hand Chios: for you have heard 

 by jnealreadie,which trees they be that lopping and fhrcddingisgood for. 



[Vlofl trees, and in manner all (except the Vine, Apple tree,Fjgtree, and Pomegranat tree) 

 will die, if their ftockc orbodie be cloven; and fome be fo tender, that upon every little wound 

 or race that is given them , yce (hall fee them to die: howbeit, the Figge tree, and generally all 

 fuch trees as breed Rofin, dclie aiHiich wrongs and -injuries, and will abide any wound or brufc 

 whcitf^ever. v/ 



Thatirees tTiould die when their rootsare cutaway, it isno marvcile rand yet manythere 

 be of them, that will live and profper well ncverthelcfle, in cafe they be not all cut off, nor the 

 greateft mafter roots, ne yet any of thcheartor vitall roots among Uiercff. 



Moreoverj it is often feene, that trees kill one another when thev grow too thickc; and that, 

 either by overiliaddowing , or elfe by robbing one another of their food and nourifiunent. 

 The Ivie alfojthat with clipping and clafping bindeditrees too hard, haftenerh their death. 

 MiflTelto likewifedoth them no good j no more than the CytifusjOi the hearb Auro, which 

 the Greekes name Aiimus, growing about them. The nature ot ibme plants is, not to kill and 

 delboy trees out of handj but to hurt and offend them onely,eiLl]er withtheirfmell, or els with 

 the mixture and intermingling of their owne juice with their fap. Thus the RadiQi and the 

 Lawrell doeharmc to the Vine if they grow neare untoittfor furely the Vine is thought to L 

 have the feme of finelling, and wonderfully to fentany odours: and therefore it is obfervedin 

 her by experience. That if fhee be neare unto Radifh or Lawrell, iliee will turne away and with- 

 draw her lelfebackeward from them, as if Ifiee could not abide their flrong breath, but vtterly 

 abhorred it as her very enemie. And upon the obfervation of this fecretm Nature, Androcj- 

 ^/^/thePhyficiandevifed a medicine againfl drunkennefle , and prefcribed his patients to eat 

 Radifliif they would not be overcome with wine.. Neither can the Vine away with Colewoi ts 

 orthc Cabbage, nay it hateth generally allWoorts or pot-hearbs:ic abhorrethslfo theHa- 

 zell and Filberd tree 3 in fuch fort, as a man fhall fenfibly perceive it to looke heavily and mif^ 

 like, ifthofe plants aforefaid grow not farther off from it. And now to conclude and knit up 

 this difcourfe^ would youkilla Vine out of hand? lay to the root thereof nitre or fait- pare^ and M 

 alumnc, drench it with bote fea-watcr : or doe but apply unto it Beane cods, or the fhaies or 

 hu.skes ofitegulfcEivilejand you lhall fbonc fee the operation and c£fe6f of a moil; rankeand 

 deadly poilonv 



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