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Experiments 
in Comfort, 
touching Cora. 
f>md Fruits 
and Flowers. 
I Nemeth to haue lefle reafon 5 Becaufe the Stone lyeth not fo neerc the Sun, 
i as the 7V<r^ groweth. 
i Timber Trees in a Coppice Wood , doe grow better, than in an Open 
Field h Both becaufe, they ofter not to fpread fomuch, but fhootvp itili 
in Height • And chiefly becaufc they are defended from too much Sunne 
and Wind, which doe checke the Growth of all Fruit ; And fo (no 
doubt) Fruit-Trees , or Twes^ fet vpon a Wall, againfl the Sunne, be- 
twecne Elbowes or Buttrdfes of Stone, ripen more, than vpon a Plaine 
Wall. 
It is faid, that if Potado Roots, be fet in a Pot filled with Earth,and then 
the Pot with Earth bee fet likewife within the Ground, fome two or three 
Inches, the Roots will grow greater, than Ordinary. TheC4«yi?maybee, 
for that hauing Earth enough within the Pot to nourifh them • And then 
being flopped by the Bottome of the Pot from putting Strings downward, 
they muft needs grow greater in Breadth and Thicknefle. And it may be, 
that all Seeds, os Roots, Potted , and fo let into the Earth, willprofper the 
better. ,. ■ ■ 
The Cutting off the Leones of Radiff, or other Roots, in the beginning of 
Winter, before they wither • And conering againe the Root, lomething 
high with Earth 5 Will preferuethe Root all Winter, and make it big¬ 
ger, in the Spring following,as hath beene partly touched before. So that 
there is a double Vfeof this Cutting off the Leones : For in Plants, where 
the Root is the Efculent , as Radijh, and Par/nips , it will make the Root the 
greater: And fo it will doe to the Heads of Onions. And where the Fruit 
is the Efculent, by Strengthening the Root, it will make theFr/walfo the 
greater. 
It is an Experiment of great pleafure, to make the Lewes of sbadj 
Trees , larger than ordinary. It hath beene tried (for certaine) that a Cions 
ofaweech-Elme, grafted vpon .the Stocke of an Ordinary Elme , will put 
forth Leaues, almoft as broad as the Brim of ones Hat. And it is very 
likely, that as in Fruit-Trees *the Graft maketh a greater Fruit • So in Trees 
that teare no Fruit .it will make the greater Leaues.lt would be tried there¬ 
fore in Trees ofthat kind chiefly ^ As Birch, J^e,willow, And efpecially the 
shining willow, which they call Swallow-tafle, becaufe of the pleafure of 
the Leafc. 
The Barrerneffe of Trees, by Accident* (befides the weak neffe of the Soile, 
Seed, or Root; And the Iniurj of the Weather ) commeth either of their 
Ouer-growing with MoJJe • Or their being Hide bound • Or their Planting 
too deepens by lffuing of the Sap too much into the Leaues. For all thefe there 
are Remedies mentioned before. 
Wee fee that in Lining (features * that haue Male and Fe- 
male ,there is Copulation of feuerall Kindcs ; And fo Compound 
Creatures j As the Mule, that is generated betwixt the Horfi. 
and the AJfe $ And fome other Compounds, which vveecajl Mm 
fiers,\ 
