Bacon, Francis
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Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries
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great numbers of Fruit; </
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can bear but few.</
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both to the Acceleration and Melioration of Fruits, is practiſed in nothing
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but in Vines; </
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Roſes, &</
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">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. </
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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: </
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Trees cannot be ſo fitly removed into new Grounds, as Flowers and Herbs
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may.</
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new Mould to the Roots, is the way. </
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into freſh Paſture, gather new and tender fleſh; </
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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.</
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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. </
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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. </
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Ground after they have ſown Onions, or Turnips, &</
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the Root to grow to an exceſſive bigneſs. </
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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. </
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Carreis.</
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with this Caution, That all things do proſper beſt, when they are advanced
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to the better. </
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than the Ground is whereunto you remove them. </
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Cattle from meaner Paſtures to better. </
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lengthneth life, becauſe it leaveth a cheriſhing to the better of the Body in
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Age: </
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thick Shooes, &</
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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.</
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more than Sun; </
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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. </
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muſt plant to the North, or defend them from the Sun by a Hedg Row; </
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when you ſow the Berries, weed not the Borders for the firſt half year; </
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the Weed giveth them Shade.</
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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. </
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nevertheleſs hath been left off, becauſe of the trouble and pains; </
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