Bacon, Francis - Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries

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12995Century V. great numbers of Fruit; whereas if you graft but upon one Stock, the Tree
can bear but few.

The digging yearly about the Roots of Trees, which is a great means;
11434. both to the Acceleration and Melioration of Fruits, is practiſed in nothing
but in Vines; which, if it were transferred unto other Trees and Shrubs, (as
Roſes, & c.) I conceive, would advance them likewiſe.

It hath been known, that a Fruit-tree hath been blown up (almoſt) by
22435. the Roots, and ſet up again, and the next year bare exceedingly. The
cauſe of this was nothing but the looſening of the Earth, which comforteth
any Tree, and is fit to be practiſed more than it is in Fruit-trees: For
Trees cannot be ſo fitly removed into new Grounds, as Flowers and Herbs
may.

To revive an old Tree, the digging of it about the Roots, and applying
33436. new Mould to the Roots, is the way. We ſee alſo that Draught-Oxen put
into freſh Paſture, gather new and tender fleſh; and in all things, better
nouriſhment than hath been uſed, doth help to renew, eſpecially, if it be
not onely better but changed, and differing from the former.

If an Herb be cut off from the Roots in the beginning of Winter, and
44437. then the Earth be trodden and beaten down hard with the Foot and Spade,
the Roots will become of very great magnitude in Summet. The reaſon is,
for that the moiſture being forbidden to come up in the Plant, ſtayeth longer
in the Root, and ſo dilateth it. And Gardiners uſe to tread down any looſe
Ground after they have ſown Onions, or Turnips, & c.

If Panicum be laid below, and about the bottom of a Root, it will cauſe
55438. the Root to grow to an exceſſive bigneſs. The cauſe is, for that being it
ſelf of a ſpungy ſubſtance, it draweth the moiſture of the Earth to it, and ſo
feedeth the Root. This is of greateſt uſe for Onions, Turnips, Parſnips, and
Carreis.

The ſhifting of Ground is a means to better the Tree and Fruit; but
66439. with this Caution, That all things do proſper beſt, when they are advanced
to the better. Your Nurſery of Stocks ought to be in a more barren Ground,
than the Ground is whereunto you remove them. So all Graſiers prefer their
Cattle from meaner Paſtures to better. We ſee alſo, that hardneſs in youth
lengthneth life, becauſe it leaveth a cheriſhing to the better of the Body in
Age: Nay, in exerciſes it is good to begin with the hardeſt, as Dancing in
thick Shooes, & c.

It hath been obſerved that hacking of Trees in their Bark, both down-
77440. right, and a croſs, ſo as you make them rather in ſlices, than in continued
Hacks, doth great good to Trees, and eſpecially delivereth them from being
Hide-bound, and killeth their Moſs.

Shade to ſome Plants conduceth to make them large and proſperous
88441. more than Sun; as in Strawberries, and Bays, & c Therefore amongſt Straw-
berries, ſow here and there ſome Borrage-Seed, and you ſhall finde the Straw-
berries under thoſe Leaves, fat more large than their fellows. And Bays you
muſt plant to the North, or defend them from the Sun by a Hedg Row; and
when you ſow the Berries, weed not the Borders for the firſt half year; for
the Weed giveth them Shade.

To increaſe the Crops of Plants, there would be conſidered, not onely
99442. the increaſing the Luſt of the Earth, or of the Plant, but the ſaving alfo of
that which is ſpilt. So they have lately made a tryal to ſet VVheat; which
nevertheleſs hath been left off, becauſe of the trouble and pains; yet ſo
much is true, that there is much ſaved by the Setting, in compariſon

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