84 Of the Difeafes and 
The prudent Anlients bid us never ceafe. 
Thus no decay is in our Vineyards known. 
But in their honour wc preferve our own. 
Thus in your Orchards other Plants will 
rife. 
Which with your Nurferies will yield fup~ 
plies 
That may again your fading Groves re¬ 
new. 
For Trees, like Men, have their Succeffi- 
ons too. 
SECT. VI; 
Of the Difeafes of Fruit-Trees , and their 
cure. 
Vegetables, as well as Animals,have their 
Difeales and Infirmities, which not only 
weaken, but totally dqftroy them; whioh 
more ufually aflault the Fruit-bearing 
Trees more than any other 5 and the finer 
and better any Fruit is,the more is its Tree 
fubjed to thefe Difeafes and Infirmities? 
e ank - er The chief whereof is the Cancer, which 
afiaulteth the belt Fruit-trees, as of Apples 
the Pippin , Golden Rennet , &c. of Pears 
the 
