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wet or dry is prejudicial to all plants and fruit-bearing trees, 
and then you cannot be wanting in the knowledge how to 
helpincafeofneed} Lime-rubbifh of old Walls,Pigeons dung 
are highly accounted of, to be mingled with any wet and 
cold Natured ground,where you plant Vines or other nioift 
kinds of Fruit that are tender, as to the bleeding of Vines 
which happeneth by over-late cutting, or fame other acci¬ 
dent 5 I for my part did never know any Vine die by that 
means, and therefore was never occafioned to make experi¬ 
ment to that purpofe,only fome have let down means to flop 
the bleeding,which I fuppofe hath been only in cafe of cutting 
or breaking fotne great arm or branch: the means was ei¬ 
ther by binding fome Sear-cloth about the place, made of 
Pitch,Rofin,and Tallow, d^oor with fome hard Wax,or Sear¬ 
ings fome have boafted of a charm to that purpofe: But let 
this fuffice for the ordering of Vines, tending only for the 
pleafore of the fruit to be eaten. 
Of Rojes, their ordering and increafing , 
A Sfor the increafing of Roles, of which there are thirty 
or forty varieties,they are not or at leafl very rarely in- 
creafed by the feeds,although they may even as well as Sweet- 
bryer, although indeed they are fomethingmore tender,nei¬ 
ther is feed to be had fo eafily or plentifulthe truth is, it is 
with Rofes, as it is with many other Flowring-trees and 
fhrubs that are hardy enough, and apt to be increafed by 
fuckers, layers,cuttings,or flips, yet being railed of feed,they 
come forward very flow, and very oft apt to be fpoiled by 
hard Winter weather 5 but if any defire to fow their feeds,by 
which means poffibly fome Varieties may be railed from fome 
forts of them 5 your belt way is to fow them fo foon as they 
be ripe, yet before they are, as I may fay, dead ripe , for l 
fuppofe it may be with them as with Sweet-bryer,which being 
fowrt as foon as they turn fomewhat red,they do better than 
when they are very ripe, from the end of Angufl , to the end 
of September , is a good feafon; you are to break the Pod or 
H Hip, 
