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Peaches, orMefe-Cotones,vpon a wail, thc'grcateft Fruits towards the 
Botcome. And in France the Grapes that make the Wini\ grow v pon low 
Vines, bound to frnali Stakes.And the railed Vines in Arbours make 
out Veriuyce.lt is true, that in Italy, and other Countries, where they 
hauehotter Sunne,they raife them vpon Elntes > and Trees But I con-1 
ceiue, that it the French Manner of Planting low, were brought in vfe 1 
there jheit trines would be ftronger and fweeter.But it is more charge- j 
able in refpeft of the Props. It were good to trie whether a Tree graf- i 
ted fomewhat neare the Ground, and the lower boughes only main- 
rained, and the higher continually proined off, would not make a lar¬ 
ger Fruit . 
To haue Fruit in Greater plenty, the way is, to graft, not onely vpon 
young Stocks ut vpon diuers Boughes of an old Tree-, for they will bearc 
great Numbers of Fruit 5 Whereas if you graft but vpon one Stocke, 
the Tree can beare but few. 
TheD/^ir/tfgyearely about the^oerj of T rees; which is a great means, 
both to the Acceleration and fyldi oration of Fruits, is pra&iled in nothing 
but .in Tines • Which if itwere transferred vnto other T rees,and shrubs, 
( as Rofes,Sic.) I conceiue would aduance them likewife. 
It hath beene knowne,that a Fruit*Twe hath beene blowne vp ( al- 
moft ) by the Roots, and fet vpagaine, and the next yeaVe bare excee¬ 
dingly. The Caufeoithh, was nothing but the Loofening of the Earth, 
which comforteth any T remand is fit to be pra&iled,morc than it is, in 
Fruit-Trees : For Trees cannot be fo fitly remoued into New Grounds, 
as Flowers and Herbs may. 
To reuiue an 0/^7Vtt 3 the Digging of it about the Roots, and Ap¬ 
plying new Mould to the Roots,is the way. We lee alfo that Draught- 
Oxen, put inr© frefh Pafture, gather new and tender Flefh: And in all 
Things, better nourifhment than hath beene vfed, doth helpe to re 
new. Efpecially, if it be not onely better, butchanged, anddiffering 
from the former. 
If an Her be be cut off from the Roots, in the beginning of Winter, 
and then the Earth be trodden an d beaten downe ha $d, with the Foot 
and Spade,the Roots will become ofvery great Magnitude inSummer. 
ThcRcafon is, for that the Moifture being forbidden to come vp in the 
Plant, ftayeth longer in the Root, and fodilareth it. And Gardiners vfe 
cotread downe any loofe Ground, after they haue fowne Onions, or 
Turnips,See. 
If Panicum be laid below, and about the Bottome ofa Root, it will 
caufe the Root to grow to an Exceffiue Rignefle. The Caufe is, for that 
being it felfe ofa Spungy Subftance, it draweththe Moifture of thc- 
Earth to it, and fofeedeth the Root. This is ofgreateft vfe for Onions, 
T ur nips ,Parfnips, and Carrets. 
‘TheSbiftingof Grounds a Meanes to better the tree, and Fruit-, 
But with this Caution^That all Things do profper beft,when they are 
aduanccd to the better: Your Nurfery of stocks ought to be in a more 
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