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if you will deuile to make any Super-Plants, you muft euer giue the Sap 
I Plcntifull Rifing, and hard IfTue. 
There are two Excrefcences which grow vpon Trees • Both of them 
in the Nature of Mufbromes: The one the Romans called Bolettt* • Which 
groweth vpon the Roots of Oakes-, and was one of the Dainties of their 
Table ^ The other is Medicinally that is called A gar; eke, (whereofwehaue 
fpoken before) which groweth vpon the Tops of Oakes > 3 Though it be 
affirmed by fome, that it groweth alfo at the Roots. I doeconceiue, that 
many Excrefcences of Trees grow chiefly, where the Tree is dead, or fa¬ 
ded • For that the Naturdl Sap of the Tree* ebrrupteth into fome Preter- 
naturall Subjianct-J. 
The greater part of 7 V*w beare Mofl, and Befl, on the Lower Boughes • 
As Oakes, Figs, wall-Nuts, Peares, &c. But lofne beare Beji on the Top- 
Bougbes ? As Crabs , &c. Thofe that beare beft below, are Inch, as Shade . 
doth more good to, than Hurt. For generally al \ Fruits beare beftlow 
eftj Becaufethe.SV/tireth not, hauingbutafhort Way: And therefore 
in Fruits fpred vpon walls^ the Lowelt are the Greateft, as was formerly 
(aid; So it is the shade that hindereththe Lower Bough es 5 Except it be 
in fuch 7 rees,as delight in shade 5 Or at leaft beare it well. And therefore, ' 
they are either Strong Trees, as the Oake 5 Or clfe they haue large Le&utf, 
as the wallnup and Fig ; Or elfe they grow in Pyransis, as. the Peare. But 
if they require very muchS0j##e, they beare beft on the TV/; As it is in 
Crabs', Apples, Plums, &c. 
There be Trees that beare beft when they begin to bee Old ; As Al- 1 
mends, Peares* Vines* and all Trees that giue Maft. The Caufeis, for thatall j 
Trees that beare Map haue an Oyly Fruit -, And Toung Trees haue a more 
V/atry Iuyce, and lefte Concoded ; And of the (ame kinde alfo is the Al 
mud. The Peare likewife, though it be not Oyly, yet it requireth much 
I Sap, and well Concoded; For we fee it is a Heauy Fruit, and Solid; 
Much more than Apples, plummes, &c. As for the Vine, it is noted, that , 
itbearethmore Grapes when it is Toung-, But Grapes that make better > 
wine, when it is Old ; For that the Iuyce is better Concocled: And wee 
(eethat Wine is Inflammable; So as it hath a kinde ofOylineffe. But the 
tnoft Part of Trees, amongft which are Apples , Plummes, &c. beare beft 
when they are Toung. 
There be Plants, thathauea Mitke in them, when they are Cut; As 
Figs, Old Lettuce, Sow-Thiftles, Spurge, &c. Th cCanfe may be an Incepti¬ 
on^ PutrefaBion , For thole Milkes haue all an Acrimony 5 though one 
would thinke they fhould be Lenitiue. Forifyou write vpon Paper, with 
the Milke of the Fig, the Letters will not befeene, vntill you hold the 
Paper before the Fire, and then they wax Browne; Which iheweth that 
it is a Sharpe or Fretting Iuyce: Lettuce is thought Poyfonous, when it 
is fo old, as to haue Milke-, Spurge is a kinde of Poyfon in it Selfe * And 
as f01 Sow-Thiftles, though Coneyes eat them, yet Sheepe and Cattell 
will not touch them* And befides the JUiUte of them, rubbed vpon 
! Warts, in fhort time, weareth them away : Which llieweth the Milke 
