Qmtury V. 



95 



To have Fruit in Greater P Untie , the way is, to graft , not only upon 

 young Stocks, but upon divers Boughes of an old Tree-, for they will bear 

 great Numbers of Fruit •, Whereas if you graft but upon one Stock, the 

 Tree can bear but few. 



The Digging yearly about the Roots of Trees , which is a great meanes , 

 both to the Acceleration and Melioration of Fruits , is practifed in. nothing 

 but in Vims \ Which if it were transferred unto other T rees, and Shrubs ,(as 

 Rofes,3tc. ) I conceive would advance them likewife. 



It hath been known, that a. Fruit-Tree hath been blown up falmoft) by 

 the Roots , and let up again , and the next year bare exceedingly. The 

 Caufe of this, was nothing but the Loosening of the Earth, which comforteth 

 any Tree , and is fit to be pra&ifed , more than it is,in Fruit-Trees: For 

 Trees cannot be fo fitly removed into New Grounds , as Flowers and Herbs 

 may. 



To revive an Old Tree, the Digging of it about the Roots, and Applying 

 new Mould to the Roots, is the Way. We fee alfo that Draught- Oxen, put 

 into frefh Pafture , gather new and tender Flelh And in all Things , better 

 Nourifhment than hath been ufed , doth help to renew Efpecially , if it be 

 not onely better, but changed, and differing from the former. 



Ifan#fr£be cut off from the Roots , m the beginning of Winter , and 

 then the Earth be trodden and beaten down hard , with the Foot and 

 Spade , the Roots will become of very great Magnitude in Summer. The 

 Reafonis, for that the Moifture being forbidden to come up in the Plant , 

 ftayeth longer in the Root 4 and fo dilateth it. And Gardners ufe to tread 

 down any loofe Ground,after they have fown Onions, or T urnips, &c. 



IfPanicumbe laid below, and about the Bottom of a Root, itwillcaufe 

 the Root to grow to an Exceffive Bignefs. The Caufe is , for that being it 

 felf of a Spungy Sublhnce , it draweth the Moifture of the Earth to it 5 and 

 fo feedeth the Root. This is of greateft ufe for Onions, T wnips, Parjnips, and 

 C arrets. 



The Shifting of Ground is a Meanes to better the T ree,and Fruit • But with 

 this Caution ^ "That all Things do profper beft , when they are advanced 

 to the better : Your Nurferie of Stocks ought to be in a more Barren 

 Ground , than the Ground is whereunto you remove them. So all Grafters 

 preferre their Cattell from meaner Paftures to better. We fee alfo , that 

 Hardnefs in Youth lengthneth Life , becaufe it leaveth a Cheriuhing to the 

 better ,of the Body,in Age : Nay in Exercifes , it is good to begin with the 

 hardeft, as Dancing in Thick Shooes, &c. 



It hath been obferved, that Hacking of T rees in their Barke , both down- 

 right, andacrofs, fo as you make them rather in flices, than in continued 

 Hacks , doth great good to T rees , And efpecially delivereth them from 

 being Hide-hound, and killeth their Mofs, 



Shade to feme Plants conduceth to make them large and profperous, more 

 than Sun •, As in Strawberries, and Rayes, &c. Therefore amongft Strawber- 

 ries , fow here and there fome Bon age-Seed ; And you ihall find the Straw- 

 berries under thofe Leaves farre more large than their Fellowes. And Bayes 

 you mult plant to the North • Or defcend them from the Sunne by a Hedge- 

 Row •, And when you fow the Berries , weed not the Borders , for the firll 

 half year For the Weed giveth them Shade. 



To increafe the Crops of Plants, there would beconfidered , not onely the 

 Increaftng the Lufl of the Earth, or of the Plant , but the Saving alfo of that 

 which is ipilt. So they have lately made a Tnall , to Set Wheat h which ne- 



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