Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries
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            great numbers of Fruit; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4183" xml:space="preserve">whereas if you graft but upon one Stock, the Tree
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            can bear but few.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4185" xml:space="preserve">The digging yearly about the Roots of Trees, which is a great means;
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            both to the Acceleration and Melioration of Fruits, is practiſed in nothing
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            but in Vines; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4187" xml:space="preserve">which, if it were transferred unto other Trees and Shrubs, (as
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            Roſes, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4188" xml:space="preserve">c.) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4189" xml:space="preserve">I conceive, would advance them likewiſe.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4191" xml:space="preserve">It hath been known, that a Fruit-tree hath been blown up (almoſt) by
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            the Roots, and ſet up again, and the next year bare exceedingly. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4192" xml:space="preserve">The
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            cauſe of this was nothing but the looſening of the Earth, which comforteth
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            any Tree, and is fit to be practiſed more than it is in Fruit-trees: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4193" xml:space="preserve">For
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            Trees cannot be ſo fitly removed into new Grounds, as Flowers and Herbs
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            may.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4195" xml:space="preserve">To revive an old Tree, the digging of it about the Roots, and applying
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            new Mould to the Roots, is the way. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4196" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo that Draught-Oxen put
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            into freſh Paſture, gather new and tender fleſh; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4197" xml:space="preserve">and in all things, better
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            nouriſhment than hath been uſed, doth help to renew, eſpecially, if it be
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            not onely better but changed, and differing from the former.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4199" xml:space="preserve">If an Herb be cut off from the Roots in the beginning of Winter, and
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            then the Earth be trodden and beaten down hard with the Foot and Spade,
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            the Roots will become of very great magnitude in Summet. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4200" xml:space="preserve">The reaſon is,
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            for that the moiſture being forbidden to come up in the Plant, ſtayeth longer
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            in the Root, and ſo dilateth it. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4201" xml:space="preserve">And Gardiners uſe to tread down any looſe
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            Ground after they have ſown Onions, or Turnips, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4202" xml:space="preserve">c.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4204" xml:space="preserve">If Panicum be laid below, and about the bottom of a Root, it will cauſe
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            the Root to grow to an exceſſive bigneſs. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4205" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that being it
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            ſelf of a ſpungy ſubſtance, it draweth the moiſture of the Earth to it, and ſo
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            feedeth the Root. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4206" xml:space="preserve">This is of greateſt uſe for Onions, Turnips, Parſnips, and
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            Carreis.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4208" xml:space="preserve">The ſhifting of Ground is a means to better the Tree and Fruit; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4209" xml:space="preserve">but
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            with this Caution, That all things do proſper beſt, when they are advanced
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            to the better. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4210" xml:space="preserve">Your Nurſery of Stocks ought to be in a more barren Ground,
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            than the Ground is whereunto you remove them. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4211" xml:space="preserve">So all Graſiers prefer their
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            Cattle from meaner Paſtures to better. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4212" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo, that hardneſs in youth
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            lengthneth life, becauſe it leaveth a cheriſhing to the better of the Body in
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            Age: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4213" xml:space="preserve">Nay, in exerciſes it is good to begin with the hardeſt, as Dancing in
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            thick Shooes, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4214" xml:space="preserve">c.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4216" xml:space="preserve">It hath been obſerved that hacking of Trees in their Bark, both down-
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            right, and a croſs, ſo as you make them rather in ſlices, than in continued
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            Hacks, doth great good to Trees, and eſpecially delivereth them from being
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            Hide-bound, and killeth their Moſs.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4218" xml:space="preserve">Shade to ſome Plants conduceth to make them large and proſperous
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            more than Sun; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4219" xml:space="preserve">as in Strawberries, and Bays, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4220" xml:space="preserve">c Therefore amongſt Straw-
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            berries, ſow here and there ſome Borrage-Seed, and you ſhall finde the Straw-
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            berries under thoſe Leaves, fat more large than their fellows. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4221" xml:space="preserve">And Bays you
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            muſt plant to the North, or defend them from the Sun by a Hedg Row; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4222" xml:space="preserve">and
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            when you ſow the Berries, weed not the Borders for the firſt half year; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4223" xml:space="preserve">for
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            the Weed giveth them Shade.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4225" xml:space="preserve">To increaſe the Crops of Plants, there would be conſidered, not onely
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            the increaſing the Luſt of the Earth, or of the Plant, but the ſaving alfo of
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            that which is ſpilt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4226" xml:space="preserve">So they have lately made a tryal to ſet VVheat; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4227" xml:space="preserve">which
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            nevertheleſs hath been left off, becauſe of the trouble and pains; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4228" xml:space="preserve">yet ſo
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            much is true, that there is much ſaved by the Setting, in compariſon </s>
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