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

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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4270" xml:space="preserve">It hath been generally received, that a Plant watred with warm Water,
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            will come up ſooner and better, than with cold Water, or with Showers.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4271" xml:space="preserve">But the Experiment of watering Wheat with warm Water (as hath been
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            ſaid) ſucceeded not; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4272" xml:space="preserve">which may be, becauſe the tryal was too late in
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            the Year, viz. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4273" xml:space="preserve">in the end of October. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4274" xml:space="preserve">For the Cold then coming upon the
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            Seed, after it was made more tender by the warm Water, might
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            check it.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4275" xml:space="preserve"/>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4276" xml:space="preserve">There is no doubt, but that Grafting (for the moſt part) doth meliorate
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0131-02" xlink:href="note-0131-02a" xml:space="preserve">452.</note>
            the Fruit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4277" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is manifeſt, for that the nouriſhment is better prepared
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            in the Stock, than in the Crude Earth: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4278" xml:space="preserve">But yet note well, that there be ſome
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            Trees that are ſaid to come up more happily from the Kernel, than from the
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            Graft; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4279" xml:space="preserve">as the Peach, and Melocotone. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4280" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe, I ſuppoſe to be, for that
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            thoſe Plants require a nouriſhment of great moiſture; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4281" xml:space="preserve">and though the nou-
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            riſhment of the Stock be finer, and better prepared, yet it is not ſo moiſt and
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            plentiful, as the nouriſhment of the Earth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4282" xml:space="preserve">And indeed we ſee thoſe Fruits
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            are very cold Fruits in their Nature.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4283" xml:space="preserve"/>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4284" xml:space="preserve">It hath been received, that a ſmaller Pear grafced upon a Stock that
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            beareth a greater Pear, will become great. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4285" xml:space="preserve">But I think it is as true, as that of
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            the Prime-Fruit upon the late Stock, and è Controverſo, which we rejected
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            before; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4286" xml:space="preserve">for the Cions will govern. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4287" xml:space="preserve">Nevertheleſs, it is probable enough,
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            that if you can get a Cions to grow upon a Stock of another kinde, that is
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            much moiſter than his own Stock, it may make the Fruit greater, becauſe it
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            will yield more plentiful nouriſhment, though it is like it will make the Fruit
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            baſer. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4288" xml:space="preserve">But generally the grafting is upon a dryer Stock; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4289" xml:space="preserve">as the Apple upon
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            a Crab, the Pear upon a Thorn, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4290" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4291" xml:space="preserve">Yet it is reported, that in the Low-
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            Countreys they will graft an Apple-Cions upon the Stock of a Colewort, and
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            it will bear a great flaggy Apple; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4292" xml:space="preserve">the Kernel of which, if it be ſet, will be a
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            Colewort, and not an Apple. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4293" xml:space="preserve">It were good to try, whether an Apple-Cions
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            will proſper, if it be grafted upon a Sallow or upon a Poplar, or upon an Alder,
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            or upon an Elm, or upon an Horſe-Plum, which are the moiſteſt of Trees. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4294" xml:space="preserve">I
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            have heard that it hath been tryed upon an Elm, and ſucceeded.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4296" xml:space="preserve">It is manifeſt by experience, That Flowers removed, wax greater, be-
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            cauſe the nouriſhment is more eaſily come by in the looſe Earth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4297" xml:space="preserve">It may be,
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            that oft regrafting of the ſame Cions, may likewiſe make Fruit greater; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4298" xml:space="preserve">as if
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            you take a Cions, and graft it upon a Stock the firſt year; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4299" xml:space="preserve">and then cut it off,
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            and graft it upon another Stock the ſecond year, and ſo for a third, or fourth
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            year, and then let it reſt, it will yield afterward, when it beareth, the greater
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            Fruit.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4301" xml:space="preserve">Of Grafting, there are many Experiments worth the noting, but thoſe we reſerve
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            # to a proper place.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4303" xml:space="preserve">It maketh Figs better, if a Fig-tree, when it beginneth to put forth
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            Leaves, have his top cut off. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4304" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is plain, for that the Sap hath the leſs
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            to feed, and the lefs way to mount: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4305" xml:space="preserve">But it may be the Fig will come fome-
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            what later, as was formerly touched. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4306" xml:space="preserve">The ſame may be tried likewiſe in other
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            Trees.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4308" xml:space="preserve">It is reported, That Mulberries will be fairer, and the Tree more fruit-
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            ful, if you bore the Trunk of the Tree thorow in ſeveral places, and thruſt
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            into the places bored, Wedges of ſome hot Trees; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4309" xml:space="preserve">as Turpentine, Maſtick-tree,
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            Guaiacum, Juniper, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4310" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4311" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe may be, for that Adventive heat doth chear
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            up the Native Juyce of the Tree.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4313" xml:space="preserve">It is reported, That Trees will grow greater and bear better Fruit, if
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            you put Salt, or Lees of Wine, or Blood to the Root. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4314" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe may be the </s>
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