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

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          <p>
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            &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4140" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4141" xml:space="preserve">The like is continually practiſed with Vines, Roſes, Musk-Roſes,
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            &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4142" xml:space="preserve">c.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4143" xml:space="preserve"/>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4144" xml:space="preserve">From May to July you may take off the Bark of any Bough, being of
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0128-01" xlink:href="note-0128-01a" xml:space="preserve">427.</note>
            the bigneſs of Three or four Inches, and cover the bare place, ſomewhat
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            above and below with Loam, well tempered with Horſe-dung, binding it
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            faſt down. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4145" xml:space="preserve">Then cut off the Bough about Alhollantide in the bare place, and
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            ſet it in Ground, and it will grow to be a fair Tree in one year. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4146" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe
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            may be, for that the Bearing from the Bark, keepeth the Sap from deſcend-
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            ing towards Winter, and ſo holdeth it in the Bough; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4147" xml:space="preserve">and it may be alſo, that
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            Loam and Horſe-dung applied to the bare place, do moiſten it and cheriſh
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            it, and make it more apt to put forth the Root. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4148" xml:space="preserve">Note, that this may be a
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            general means for keeping up the Sap of Trees in their Boughs, which may
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            ſerve to other effects.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4149" xml:space="preserve"/>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4150" xml:space="preserve">It hath been practiſed in Trees that ſhew fair and bear not, to bore a
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            hole thorow the Heart of the Tree, and thereupon it will bear. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4151" xml:space="preserve">Which may
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            be, for that the Tree before hath too much Repletion, and was oppreſſed
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            with his own Sap; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4152" xml:space="preserve">for Repletion is an enemy to Generation.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4154" xml:space="preserve">It hath been practiſed in Trees that do notbear, to cleave two or three
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            of the chief Roots, and to put into the Cleft a ſmall Pebble which may
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            keep it open, and then it will bear. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4155" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe may be, for that a Root of
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            a Tree may be (as it were) hide-bound, no leſs then the Body of the Tree;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4156" xml:space="preserve">but it will not keep open without ſomewhat put into it.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4158" xml:space="preserve">It is uſually practiſed to ſet Trees that require much Sun, upon Walls
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0128-04" xlink:href="note-0128-04a" xml:space="preserve">430.</note>
            againſt the South; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4159" xml:space="preserve">as Apricots, Peaches, Plumbs, Vines, Figs, and the like. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4160" xml:space="preserve">It
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            hath a double commodity; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4161" xml:space="preserve">the one, the heat of the Wall by reflexion; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4162" xml:space="preserve">the
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            other, the taking away of the ſhade: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4163" xml:space="preserve">For when a Tree groweth round, the
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            upper Boughs over ſhaddow the lower, but when it is ſpred upon a Wall,
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            the Sun cometh alike upon the upper and lower Branches.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4165" xml:space="preserve">It hath alſo been practiſed (by ſome) to pull ſome Leaves from the
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0128-05" xlink:href="note-0128-05a" xml:space="preserve">431.</note>
            Trees ſo ſpred, that the Sun may come upon the Bough and Fruit the bet-
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            ter. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4166" xml:space="preserve">There hath been practiſed alſo a curioſity, to ſeta Tree upon the North
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            ſide of a Wall, and at a little height, to draw him through the Wall, and
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            ſpred him upon the South ſide; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4167" xml:space="preserve">conceiving, that the Root and lower part
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            of the Stock ſhould enjoy the freſhneſs of the ſhade, and the upper Boughs
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            and Fruit, the comfort of the Sun; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4168" xml:space="preserve">but it ſorted not. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4169" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that
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            the Root requireth ſome comfort from the Sun, though under Earth, as well
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            as the Body; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4170" xml:space="preserve">and the lower part of the Body more than the upper, as we
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            ſee in compaſſing a Tree below with ſtraw.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4172" xml:space="preserve">The lowneſs of the Bough, where the Fruit cometh, maketh the Fruit
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            greater, and to ripen better; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4173" xml:space="preserve">for you ſhall ever ſee in Apricotes, Peaches, or
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            Melo-Cotones upon a Wall, the greateſt Fruits towards the bottom. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4174" xml:space="preserve">And in
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            France the Grapes that make the Wine, grow upon the low Vines, bound to
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            ſmall Stakes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4175" xml:space="preserve">and the raiſed Vines in Arbors, make but Verjuyce. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4176" xml:space="preserve">It is
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            true, that in Italy, and other Countreys where they have hotter Sun, they
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            raiſe them upon Elms and Trees: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4177" xml:space="preserve">But I conceive, that if the French man-
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            ner of Planting low, were brought in uſe, their Wines would be ſtronger
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            and ſweeter: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4178" xml:space="preserve">But it is more chargeable in reſpect of the Props. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4179" xml:space="preserve">It were
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            good to try whether a, Tree grafted ſomewhat near the ground, and the
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            lower Boughs onely maintained, and the higher continually proyned off,
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            would not make a larger Fruit.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4181" xml:space="preserve">To have Fruit in greater Plenty, the way is to graft, not onely upon
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0128-07" xlink:href="note-0128-07a" xml:space="preserve">433.</note>
            young Stocks, but upon divers Boughs of an old Tree; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4182" xml:space="preserve">for they will </s>
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