Bacon, Francis
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Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries
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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. </
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ſet it in Ground, and it will grow to be a fair Tree in one year. </
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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; </
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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. </
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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.</
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hole thorow the Heart of the Tree, and thereupon it will bear. </
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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; </
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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. </
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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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againſt the South; </
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other, the taking away of the ſhade: </
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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.</
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Trees ſo ſpred, that the Sun may come upon the Bough and Fruit the bet-
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ſide of a Wall, and at a little height, to draw him through the Wall, and
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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; </
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the Root requireth ſome comfort from the Sun, though under Earth, as well
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greater, and to ripen better; </
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Melo-Cotones upon a Wall, the greateſt Fruits towards the bottom. </
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France the Grapes that make the Wine, grow upon the low Vines, bound to
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ſmall Stakes; </
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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: </
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ner of Planting low, were brought in uſe, their Wines would be ſtronger
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lower Boughs onely maintained, and the higher continually proyned off,
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would not make a larger Fruit.</
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young Stocks, but upon divers Boughs of an old Tree; </
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