Century . V. 
Barren Gronnd,than the Ground is whercunto you remouc them. So 
all Grafters prcterie their Cattcll from meaner Failures to better. We 
fee alio, that Hardncilc in Youth lengthneth Life* beeaufe it leaueth 
a Cheriilnng to thebetterof the Bodie, in Age *. Nay in Exerci- 
fes, it is good to beginne with the bardeft, as Dancing in Thicke 
Sliooes,&:c. 
Ithathbeene obferued, that Hackingot Trees in their Barke, both 
downe-right, and acrofle, fo as you make them rather in flices,than in 
continued Hackes,doth great good to Trees-, And efpeciaily dcliuereth 
them from being Hide-bound, and killeth their Mofle. 
Shade to fome plants conduceth to make them large, and profpe- 
rous, more than Surine • As in Strawberries , and Bayes, &c. Therefore 
amongtl Strawberries , low here and there fome Borrage- Seed 5 And you 
Inall finde the Strawberries vnder thofe Lcaues farre more large than 
their Fellowes. And \Bayes you mull plant to the North ; Or defend 
them from the Simne by a Hedge-Row s And when you low the*fi^- 
rics, weed not the Borders for the tirll halfc yeare ; For the weed giueth 
them Shade. 
To increafc the crops of plants, there would be confidered,not only 
the Increasing the Luji of the Earth,or of the plant, but the fauing alfo of 
that which is fpiit.So they haue lately madeaTrialftoi’er wheat ,which 
neuerthelelTe hath beene left off,becaule of the trouble and paines ; Yet 
fo much is true, that there is much laued by the Setting, in comparifon 
of that which is Sowen ; Both by keeping it from being picked vpby 
Birds j And by Auoiding the Shallow lying of it, whereby much that 
isfowen taketh no Root. 
It is prelcribed by fome of the Ancients, that you take SmallTrees, 
vpon which Figs or other Fruit grow, beirigyet vnripe, andcouerthe 
Treesin theMiddle of Autumne with dung,vntill the Spring^ And then 
take them vp in a warme day,and replant them in good ground; And 
by that meanes,the former yeares Tree will be ripe, as by a new Birth; 
when other Trees of the fame kind,doe but blolTome. But this feemeth 
to haue no great Pobability. 
It is reported,that if you take Nitre, and mingle it with water, to tjie 
thickneffe of Honey,* nd Therewith annoint the Buddies the Fine is cut, 
it will fprout forth within eight dayes. The Caufe is like to be, ( if the 
Experiment be true* ) the Opening of the Bud, and of the Parts Conti¬ 
guous, by the Spiric of the Nitre ; For Nitre is (as it were)' the Life of 
Vegetables. 
Take Seed, or Kernels of Apples, Ptares, drenges', Or a Peach , or a 
Plum-Stone , &c. And put,them into a SqUW, ( which is like a great 
Onion, ) and they will come vp much earlier than in the Earth it lelfe. 
This I conceiue to bee as a Kindeof GraftingitithePoot ; For as the 
Stocke ofa Grafc yceldeth better prepared nourifhmenc to the Graft, 
than the Crude Earth 3 So the Squill doth the like to the Seed. And I 
luppofe the fame Would be done,by Putting Kernetls into a Turnip , of 
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