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

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            theſe means may be practiſed upon other, both Trees, and Flowers, Mutatis
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            mutandis.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4100" xml:space="preserve">Men have entertained a conceit that ſheweth prettily, namely, That if
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            you graft a Late coming Fruit, upon a Stock of a Fruit-tree that cometh ear-
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            ly, the Graft willbear Fruit early, as a Peach upon a Cherry: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4101" xml:space="preserve">And contrari-
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            wiſe, if an Early coming-Fruit upon a Stock of a Fruit-tree that cometh late,
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            the Graſt will bear Fruit late; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4102" xml:space="preserve">as a Cherry upon a Peach. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4103" xml:space="preserve">But theſe are but
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            imaginations, and untrue. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4104" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that the Cions over-ruleth the
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            Stock quite, and the Stock is but Paſſive onely, and giveth Aliment, but no
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            Motion to the Graft.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4106" xml:space="preserve">WE will ſpeak now, how to make Fruits, Flowers, and Roots larger, in
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0127-02" xlink:href="note-0127-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments
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              in Conſort,
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              touching the
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              Malioration
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              of Fruit Trees,
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              and Plants.</note>
            more plenty and ſweeter than they uſe to be; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4107" xml:space="preserve">and how to make the
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            Trees themſelves more tall, more ſpred, and more haſty and ſudden, than
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            they uſe to be. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4108" xml:space="preserve">Wherein there is no doubt, but the former Experiments
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            of Acceleration will ſerve much to theſe purpoſes. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4109" xml:space="preserve">And again, that theſe
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            Experiments which we ſhall now ſet down, do ſerve alſo for Acceleration, be-
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            cauſe both Effects proceeds from the encreaſe of Vigor in the Tree; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4110" xml:space="preserve">but yet
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            to avoid confuſion. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4111" xml:space="preserve">And becauſe ſome of the Means are more proper for the
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            one effect, and ſome for the other. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4112" xml:space="preserve">We will handle them aparr.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4114" xml:space="preserve">It is an aſſured Experience, That an heap of Flint or Stone, laid about the
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            bottom of a wilde Tree, (as in Oak, Elm, Aſh, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4115" xml:space="preserve">c.) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4116" xml:space="preserve">upon the firſt planting,
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            doth make it proſper double as much as without it. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4117" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that
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            it retaineth the moiſture which falleth at any time upon the Tree, and ſuffer-
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            eth it not to be exhaled by the Sun. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4118" xml:space="preserve">Again, it keepeth the Tree warm from
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            cold Blaſts and Froſts, as it were in an Houſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4119" xml:space="preserve">It may be alſo, there is ſome-
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            what in the keeping of it ſteady at the firſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4120" xml:space="preserve">Quare, if laying of Straw ſome
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            height about the Body of a Tree, will not make the Tree for wards: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4121" xml:space="preserve">For
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            though the Root giveth the Sap, yet it is the Body that draweth it. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4122" xml:space="preserve">But you
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            muſt note, that if you lay Stones about the Stalk of Lettuce, or other Plants
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            that are more ſoft, it will over-moiſten the Roots, ſo as the Worms will eat
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            them.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4124" xml:space="preserve">A Tree at the firſt ſetting, ſhould not be ſhaken, until it hath taken Root
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            fully; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4125" xml:space="preserve">And therefore ſome have put too little Forks about the bottom of
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            their Trees, to keep them upright; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4126" xml:space="preserve">but after a years rooting, then ſhaking
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            doth the Tree good by looſning of the Earth, and (perhaps) by exer ciſing
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            (as it were) and ſtirring the Sap of the Tree.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4128" xml:space="preserve">Generally, the cutting away of Boughs and Suckers at the Root and
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            Body, doth make Trees grow high; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4129" xml:space="preserve">and contrariwiſe, the Poling and Cut-
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            ting of the top, maketh them grow, ſpred, and buſhy; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4130" xml:space="preserve">as we ſee in Pol-
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            lords, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4131" xml:space="preserve">c.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4133" xml:space="preserve">It is reported, That to make haſty growing Coppice wood, the way is,
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            to take Willow, Sallow, Popler, Alder, of ſome ſeven years growth; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4134" xml:space="preserve">and
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            to ſet them, not upright, but a-ſlope, a reaſonable depth under the Ground;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4135" xml:space="preserve">and then inſtead of one Root they will put forth many, and ſo carry more
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            ſhoots upon a Stem.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4137" xml:space="preserve">When you would have many new Roots of Fruit-Trees, take alow
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            Tree, and bow it, and lay all his Branches a flat upon the ground, and caſt
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            Earth upon them, and every twig will take Root. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4138" xml:space="preserve">And this is a very proſitable
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            Experiment for coſtly Trees; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4139" xml:space="preserve">(for the Boughs will make Stocks without
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            charge) ſuch as are Apricots, Peaches, Almonds, Cornelians, Mulberries, </s>
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