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they will grow thick, ftrong, handfom,by the neglcd the contrary. 
Hawthorn or White-bulh is beft. 
* Prime. 
Goofe-berries, or Currans, expedt to be little and mean Fruit, 
if you keep your Hedge handfom. 
Sweet-bryer, it muft be cut as oft as Grafs, elfe not handfom. 
Suckers of Plums, and of fome young Horn-bean, &c. 
If you would have them always green, you may fee 
Box,the Englifh is the fpeedieft. 
Filare. 
Holly. 
Laurus tinus. 
Piracantha. 
Alfo Periwinkle, for low hedges being oft cut will be handfom. 
Alfo Melerions, being planted in a ftreight line as an hedge, will in 
their Flowring Seafon be very fweet and pleafant, and fo much : 
the more acceptable, being early in flowering. 
Perhaps it might be expedted by fome, that I fhould fay fome- 
thing as to the obfervation of the Moon, in Sowing, Planting, Graf¬ 
ting, and Pruning but the truth is; I have been always fo incum- 
bred through the multiplicity of bufmefs, neceftiry being likewife 
prefent always with me: So that I could not, either take the oppor¬ 
tunity, or make obfervation of any ftate of the Moon * and the fuc- 
cefs thereof, in any of my labours 5 but affuredly, notwithftanding 
the be ft of my diligence, I have not had always like fuccefs where- 
ever the fault was: But I flhall fet dow T n a little what fome others 
have writ concerning the obfervation of the Moon. And firft, one 
faith,that to have Plants or feed grow fpeedily in height, you are to > 
fow them in the increafe of the Moon, both in light! and motion, 
and pofited in an Airy Sign. 
But to have your Plants to take beft hold downwards in the 
root, then to let the Moon be in an earthly Sign. 
The fame Author faith likewife, that no Herb or Fruit either 
fet or fow'n in the Wane of the Moon,hath that goodnefs of rellifb, , 
that is naturally proper to that Herb or Fruit, only he doth except 
Peafe, which he faith being fovvn in the increafe of the Moon, will 
ftiil be blowing with bloffoming. 
Alfo that Vines or other Trees fhould not fpring or (hoot too 
fa ft, you muft prune them in the Wane of the Moon. 
Alfo that things may keep found and laft long, &c. from worm- 
eating, you are to gather or.cut them in the Wane of the Moon .• ■ 
Thus far Mr. Rawfey. A no 
