The Hifiory of Life and Death. 



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three or four years, As the Violet, Straw-bery,Burnet,Trime-rofe,*nd Sorrel.Rm 

 and Bngloffe, which feem lb alike,when they are alive,differ in their Deaths; For 

 wil! laft but one yeare, Buglo(fe will laft more. 



But many hot Herbs ,beare their age and ycares better 5 Hyfope, Thyme, Savourie, 

 Pot-Marjo) aw,Bdlme^orm-wood, Germander, Suge&vA the like . Fenneldks yearly 

 in the ftalk, buds again from the root. But Tulfe and fweet Marjoram, can better en- 

 dure age than Winter; For being let in a very warm place,and well fenced,they will live 

 more than one year. It is kaown, that a knot of Hyfop twice a year (home, hath con- 

 tinued forty years. 



B*[hss and Shrub f fat threefcore years, and fome double as much. A Vine may at- 

 tain to threescore years , and continue fruitfull in the old age. Rofe-mary well placed 

 will come alto to threefcore years. But white Thorn, and Ivie, endure above an hundred 

 yeares. As for the Bramble , the age thereof is not certainly known; becaufe bowing 

 the head to the ground, it gets new roots ; lb as you cannot diftinguifh the Old , from 

 the New, 



Amongft great Trees, the longeft livers are ; TheC%, the Holme , thtWtld-Afh, 

 the Elme,thz Beech-tree,thz fheft-nut,zhe P lain-tree, Ticns Buminalis,thz Lote-tree, 

 the wilde-OUve,x\\z Palme-tree,znd the Mulbery-tree: Of thefe fome have come to the 

 Age of eight hundred yeares; but the lealt livers of them do attain to two hundred. 



But Trees Odor ate, or that have fweet woods;and Trees Rozennie ,laft longer i n their 

 Woods or Timber,than thofe above-faid,but they are not fo long liv'd; as the Cjprefi- 

 tree, Maple, Pine, Box, Juniper. The Cedar being born out by the vaftnefl'e of his body, 

 lives well-near as long as the former. 



The Jjh, fertile, and forward in bearing , reacheth to an hundred years , and fome- 

 what better; which alio the Birch, staple, 2nd Service-tree fometimesdoe : but the 

 Poplar, Lime-tree,mllorv>znd that which they call the Sjcemarcpad Wallnut-tree, live 

 not fo long. 9 



T h e <^pple-tree,Pear-tree,Plum-tree,Pamegranate~tree, Citron-tree y Medla r -tree, 



Blac'i^cherry-tree, Cherry-tree, may attain tohfty orfixty years ; efpec'ially if they be' 

 chanled from the moffe wherewith fome of them are cloathed. 



Generally, greatnelfe of bodie in trees,if other things be equal , hath fome con<mtity 

 with length ot life ; So hath hardnejfc oifubflance : And trees bearing Maft,orNuts 

 are commonly longer livers than trees bearing fruit or berries : Likewifc,trees putting 

 forth thai leaves late,and fheddwg them late again,li ve longer than thole that arc early 

 either in 1 saves or fruit. The like is of mid-trees, in comparifon of Orchard-trees: And 

 laftly, in the fame kinde, trees that beare z fare-fruit , out-live thofe that bear a fweet 

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AnObfervation. 



A Riftotle noted well the difference between Plants and livingCreatures, in refpeEt of 

 J~ *their Nouriftiment and Reparation; Namely ,t hat the Bodies o/Living Creatures 

 are confined within certaine Bounds , and that after they be come to their full Growth, 

 they are continued and preferved by Nouriftiment, but they put forth nothing New .ex- 

 cept Haire and Nailes ; which are counted for no better than Excrements; fo as the juice 

 of living Creatures, mufi,ofnecefuy,fooner wax old: but in trees,which put forth yearly 

 new Boughe>, new Shoots, new Leaves, and new Fruits; It comes to paffe, that all thefe 

 parts in Trees are once a year young and renewed. Now.it being fo, that whatfoever is 

 frefh and young, drawes Nouriftiment more lively , and cheerfully to it, than that 

 which is decayed andold:It happens withal,that the Stock WBody of the Ttee,through 

 which the Sap pafeth to the Branches,// refrefhed and cheered,with a more bountiful and 

 vigorous Noiirifhment in the paffage, th an otherwife it would have been. And this ap- 

 pears manifefiithough Ariftotle noted it not ; Neither hath he expreffed thefe things fo 

 clearly andperfpicuoufly.)\n Hedges,Copfes, and Pollards,^ the plafhing,fheddin g , 

 or \o^\n^,comforteth the old Stemme^r Stock, Ww*/^ it more flourifhing, and UM 

 erliv'd. 



Deftcattion, 



