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ble Experiment for Coftly Trees •, (for the Boughes will make Stocks with- 

 out charge 5 ) Such as are Apricots? Peaches, Almonds, Cornelians .Mulberries, 

 Figs, &c. The like is continually pra&ifed with Vines, Rofes, Musk- 

 Rojes, &c, 



From May to July you may 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, withLoame well tempered with Horfe-dung, binding it 

 faft down. Then cut off the Bough about Alhollantide in the bare place, and 

 fet it in Ground 5 And it will grow to be a fair Tree m one' Year. The 

 Caufe may be, for that the Baring from the Bark keepeth the Sap from de- 

 fending towards Winter, and fo holdeth it in the Bough h And it may be 

 alfo that Loam and Horfe-dung applyed to the bare place, do moiften it, 

 andcherifhit, and make it more apt to put forth the Root. Note, that 

 this may be a generall Meanes for keeping up the Sap of Trees in their 

 Boughes 5 Which may ferve to other Effects. 



It hath been praclifed in Trees, that {hew fair, and bear not, to Bore a 

 Hole thorow the Heart of the T ree, and thereupon it will bear. Which may 

 be, for that the Tree before had too much Repletion, and was opprefled with 

 his own Sap For Repletion is an Enemie to Generation. 



It hath been praclifed in Trees, that do not bear, 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 will bear. The Caufe may be, for that a Root of 

 a Tree may be ( as it were, ) Hide-bound, no lets then the Body of the Tree a, 

 but it will not keep open without fomewhat put into it. 



It is ufually pra&ifed, to fet T rees that require much Sun, upon walls a- 

 gainftthe South. As Apricots,Pcaches,Plums,Vines,Figs,zn& the like. It hath 

 a double Commoditie 5 The one, the He at of the Wall by Reflexion ^ The o- 

 ther, the T aking away of the Shade For when a T ree groweth round, the 

 upper Boughes over-fhadow the lower : But when it is fpread upon a Wall, 

 the Sunne cometh alike, upon the upper, and lower Branches. 



It hath alfo been praclifed, ( by lbme ) to pull Come Leaves from the 

 T rees fo (}read, that the Sunne may come upon the Bough and Fruit the bet- 

 ter. There hath been praftifed alfo a Curioiiue, to fet a T ree upon the North- 

 Side of a Wall, and at a little height, to draw him through the Wall, and 

 fpread him upon the South- Side .* Conceiving that the Root and lower Part 

 of the Stock mould enjoy the Frefhnefs of the Shade • And the Upper 

 Boughs, and Fruit, the Comfort of the Sunne. But it forted nor. The Caufe 

 is, for that the Root requireth fome Comfort from the Sunne, though under 

 Earth, as well as the iodic $ And the Lower Part of the Bodie more. than the 

 Upper, as we fee in CompafTing a T ree below with ftraw. 



The Lorvne/s'ohhe Bough, where the Fruit cometh, maketh the Fruit 

 greater, and to ripen better 5 For you mall ever fee in Apricots, Peaches, or 

 Melo-Cotones, upon a wall, the greateft Fruits towards the Bottom. And 

 in France the Grapes thai make the Wine, grow upon the low Vines, bound 

 to fmall Stakes. And the raifed Vines in Arbours make but Verjuyce. It is 

 true, that in Italy, and other Countries, where they have hotter Sunne, they 

 raife them upon Elmes, and Trees ; But I conceive, that if the French Man- 

 ner of Planting low, were brought in ufe, their Wines would be Wronger 

 and fweeter. But it is more chargeable in refpe<ft of the Props. It were good 

 tp try whether a Tree grafted fomewhat near the Ground, and the lower 

 boughs only maintained, and the higher continually proinedoff, would not 

 make a larger Fruit. , 



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