natural history five century we will now inquire of plant or vegetable and we  shall do it with diligence they be the principal part of the three day work  they be the first to lead forth which be the word of animation for the other  word be but the word of essence and they be of excellent and general use for  food medicine and a number of mechanical be there be sow in a bed turnip seed  radish seed wheat cucumber seed and pea the bed we call a hotbed and the  manner of it be this there be take horse dung old and well rot this be lie  upon a bank half a foot high and support round about with plank and upon the  top be cast sift earth some two finger deep and then the seed sprinkle upon it  have be steep all night in water mix with cow dung the turnip seed and the  wheat come up half a inch above ground within two day after without any water  the rest the three day the experiment be make in October and it may be in the  spring the accelerate will have be the speedy this be a noble experiment for  without this help they will have be four time as long in come up but there do  not occur to I at this present any use thereof for profit except it shall be  for sow of pea which have their price very much increase by the early come it  may be try also with cherry strawberry and other fruit which be dear when they  come early there be wheat steep in water mix with cow-dung other in water mix  with horse dung other in water mix with pigeon dung other in urine of man  other in water mix with chalk powder other in water mix with soot other in  water mix with ash other in water mix with bay-salt other in claret wine other  in malmsey other in breathe of wine the proportion of the mixture be a four  part of the ingredient to the water save that there be not of the salt above a  eight part the urine and wine and spirit of wine be simple without mixture of  water the time of the steep be twelve hour the time of the year October there  be also other wheat sow unsteeped but water twice a day with warm water there  be also other wheat sow simple to compare it with the rest the event be that  those that be in the mixture of dung and urine and soot chalk ash and salt  come up within fix day and those that afterward prove the high thick and most  lusty be first the urine and then the dung next the chalk next the soot next  the ash next the salt next the wheat simple of it self unsteeped and unwatered  next the water twice a day with warm water next the claret wine so that these  three last be slow than the ordinary wheat of it self and this culture do  rather retard than advance as for those that be steep in malmsey and spirit of  wine they come not up at all this be a rich experiment for profit for the most  of the steel pings be cheap thing and the goodness of the crop be a great  matter of gain if the goodness of the crop answer the earliness of the come up  as it be like it will both be from the vigour of the seed which also partly  appear in the former experiment as have be say this experiment will be try in  other grain seed and kernel for it may be some steep will agree best with some  seed it will be try also with root steep as before but for long time it will  be try also in several season of the year especial the spring strawberry water  now and then as once in three day with water wherein have be steep sheep dung  or pigeon dung will prevent and come early and it be like the same effect will  follow in other very herb flower grain or tree and therefore it be a  experiment though vulgar in strawberry yet not bring into use general for it  be usual to help the ground with muck and likewise to recomfort it sometime  with muck put to the root but to water it with muck water which be like to be  more forcible be not practice dung or chalk or blood apply in substance  seasonable to the root of tree do set they forward but to do it unto herb  without mixture of water or earth it may be these help be too hot the former  mean of help germination be either by the goodness and strength of the  nourishment or by the comfort and excite the spirit in the plant to draw the  nourishment better and of this latter kind concern the comfort of the spirit  of the plant arealso the experiment that follow though they be not application  to the root or seed the plant of tree warm upon a wall against the south or  south east sun do hasten their come on and ripen and the south east be find to  be better than the southwest though the south west be the hot coast but the  cause be chief for that the heat of the morning succeed the cold of the night  and partly because many time the south west sun be too parch so likewise the  plant of they upon the back of a chimney where a fire be keep do hasten their  come on and ripen nay more the draw of the bough into the inside of a room  where a fire be continual keep work the same effect which have be try with  grape in so much as they will come a month early than the grape abroad beside  the two mean of accelerate germination former describe that be to say the mend  of the nourishment and comfort of the spirit of the plant there be a three  which be the make way for the easy come to the nourishment and draw it and  therefore gentle dig and loosen of the earth about the root of tree and the  Remening herb and flower into new earth once in two year which be the same  thing for the new earth be ever lose do great further the prosper and  earliness of plant but the most admirable acceleration by facilitate the  nourishment be that of water for a standard of a damask rise with the root on  be set in a Chamber where no fire be upright in a earthen pan full of fair  water without any mixture half a foot under the water the standard be more  then two foot high above the water within the space of ten day the standard do  put forth a fair green lease and some other little bud which stand at a stay  without any show of decay or wither more then seven day but afterward that  leaf fade but the young bud do sprout on which afterward open into fair leave  in the space of three month and continue so a while after till upon removal we  leave the trial but note that the leave be somewhat pale and light colour than  the leave use to be abroad note that the first bud be in the end of October  and it be likely that if it have be in the spring time it will have put forth  with great strength and it may be to have grow on to bear flower by this mean  you may have as it seem rise set in the amid of a pool be support with some  stay which be matter of rareness and pleasure though of small use this be the  more strange for that the like rise standard be put at the same time into  water mix with horse dung the horse dung about the four part to the water and  in four month space while it be observe put not forth any leaf though diverse  bud at the first as the other a Dutch flower that have a bulbous root be  likewise put at the same time all under water some two or three finger deep  and within seven day sprout and continue long after further grow there be also  put in a be it root a borrage root and a RaddishRoot which have all their  leave cut almost close to the root and within six week have fair leave and so  continue till the end of November note that if root or pea or flower may be  accelerate in their come and ripen there be a double profit the one in the  high price that those thing bear when they come early the other in the  swiftness of their return for in some ground which be strong you shall have a  radish c come in a month that in other ground will not come in two and so make  double return wheat also be put into the water and come not forth at all so as  it seem there must be some strength and bulk in the body put into the water as  it be in root for grain or seed the cold of the water will mortify but casual  some wheat lie under the pan which be somewhat moisten by the sue of the pan  which in six week as aforesaid look mouldy to the eye but it be sprout forth  half a finger length it seem by these instance of water that for nourishment  the water be almost all in all and that the earth do but keep the plant  upright and save it from over heat and over cold and therefore be a  comfortable experiment for good drinker it prove also that our former opinion  that drink incorporate with flesh or root as in capon Baere c will nourish  more easy than meat and drink take several the Nousing of plant I conceive  will both accelerate germination and bring forth flower and plant in the cold  season and as we house Hot-Countrey plant as lemon orange myrtle to save they  so we may house our own country plant to forward they and make they come in  the cold season in such sort that you may have violet strawberry pea all  winter so that you sow or remove they at fit time this experiment be to be  refer unto the comfort of the spirit of the plant by warmth as well as house  their bough c so then the mean to accelerate germination be in particular  eight in general three to make rise or other flower come late it be a  experiment of pleasure for the ancient esteem much of rose sera and indeed the  November rise be the sweet have be less exhale by the sun the mean be these  first the cut off their top immediate after they have do bear and then they  will come again the same year about November but they will not come just on  the top where they be cut but out of those shoot which be as it be water bough  the Cause be for that the Sap which otherwise will have feed the top though  after bear will by the discharge of that divert unto the side sprout and they  will come to bear but late the second be the pull off the bud of the rise when  they be new knot for then the side branch will bear the Cause be the same with  the former for cut off the top and pull off the bud work the same effect in  retention of the Sap for a time and diversion of it to the sprout that be not  so forward the three be the cut off some few of the Top-Roughes in the spring  time but suffer the low bough to grow on the Cause be for that the bough do  help to draw up the Sap more strong and we see that in Powling of tree many do  use to leave a bough or two on the top to help to draw up the Sap and it be  coparated also that if you graft upon the bough of a tree and cut off some of  the old bough the new tions will perish the four be by lie the root bear about  christmus some day the Cause be plain for that it do the Sap from go upward  for a time which arrest be after ward release by the cover of the root a gain  with earth and then the Sap get up but late the five be the Re of the tree  some month before it bud the cause be for that some time will be require after  the ree for the Reselting before it can draw the Iuycs and that time be lose  the blossom u needs some forth late the six be the graft of Kaser in may which  common gardener do not till inly and then they bear not till the next year but  if you graft they in may they will bear the same year but late the seven be  the gird of the body of the tree about with some pack thread for that also in  a degree restrain the Sap and make it come up more late and more slow the  eight in the plant of they shade or in a hedge the Cause be partly the keep  out of the sun which hasten the Sap to rise and partly the rob of they of  nourishment by the suff in the hedge these mean may be practice upon other  both tree and flower m letter man have entertain a conceit that show pretty  namely that if you grast a late come fruit upon a stock of a fruit tree that  early the graft will bear fruit early at a peach upon a cherry and  contrariwise if a early come fruit upon a stock of a fruit tree that come late  the grafe will bear fruit late as a cherry upon a peach but these be but  imagination and true the Cause be for that the tions overrule the stock quite  and the stock be but Passue only and give aliment but no motion to the graft  we will speak now how to make fruit flower and Ro large in more plenty and  sweet than they use to be and how to make the tree themselves more tall more  spread and more hasty and sudden than they use to be wherein there be no doubt  but the former experiment of acceleration will serve much to these purpose and  again that these experiment which we shall now set down do serve also for  acceleration because both effect proceed from the increase of vigour in the  tree but yet to avoid confusion and because some of the mean be more proper  for the one effect and some for the other we will handle they apart it be a  assure experience that a heap of flint or stone lie about the bottom of a wild  tree as a oak elm ash c upon the first plant do make it prosper double as much  as without it the Cause be for that it retain the moisture which fall at any  time upon the tree and suffer it not to be exhale by the sun again it keep the  tree warm from cold blast and frost as it be in a house it may be also there  be somewhat in the keep of it steady at the first quare if lie of straw some  height about the body of a tree will not make the tree forward for though the  root give the Sap yet it be the body that draw it but you must note that if  you lie stone about the stalk of lettuce or other plant that be more soft it  will over moisten the root so as the worm will eat they a tree at the first  set shall not be shake until it have take root full and therefore some have  put two little fork about the bottom of their tree to keep they upright but  after a year root then shake do the tree good by loosen of the earth and  perhaps by exercise as it be and stir the Sap of the tree general the cut away  of bough and sucker at the root and body do make tree grow high and  contrariwise the Powling and cut of the top make they grow spread and bushy as  we see in pollard c it be report that to make hasty grow coppice wood the way  be to take willow sallow poplar Alder of some seven year growth and to set  they not upright but aslope a reasonable depth under the ground and then  instead of one root they will put forth many and so carry more shoot upon a  stem when you will have many new root of fruit tree take a low tree and bow it  and lie all his branch a-flat upon the ground and cast earth upon they and  every twig will take root and this be a very profitable experiment for costly  tree for the buy will make stock without charge such as be apricot peach  almond cornelian mulberry fig c the like be continual practice with vine rise  musk rise c from may to July you may take off the bark of any bough be of the  bigness of three or four inch and cover the bear place somewhat above and  below with loam well temper with horse dung bind it fast down then cut off the  bough about Alhollontide in the bear place and set it in the ground and it  will grow to be a fair tree in one year the Cause may be for that the bear  from the bark keep the Sap from descend towards winter and so hold it in the  bough and it may be also that the loam and horse dung apply to the bear place  do moisten it and cherish it and make it more apt to put forth the root note  that this may be a general mean for keep up the Sap of tree in their bough  which may serve to other effect it have be practice in tree that show fair and  bear not to boar a hold through the heart of the tree and thereupon it will  bear which may be for that the tree before have too much repletion and be  oppress with his own Sap for repletion be a enemy to generation it have be  practice in tree that do not bear to cleave two or three of the chiese root  and to put into the cleave a small pebble which may keep it open and then it  will bear the Cause may be for that a root of a tree may be as it be hide bind  no less than the body of the tree but it will not keep open without somewhat  put into it it be usual practice to set tree that require much sun upon wall  against the south as apricot peach plum vine fig and the like it have a double  commodity the one the heat of the wall by reflection the other the take away  of the shade for when a tree grow round the upper bough over shadow the low  but when it be spread upon a wall the sun come alike upon the upper and low  branch it have also be practice by some to pull off some lean from the tree so  spread that the sun may come upon the bough and fruit the better there have be  practice also a curiosity to set a tree upon the north side of a wall and at a  little height to draw he through the wall and spread he upon the south side  conceive that the root and low part of the stock shall enjoy the freshness of  the shade and the Upper bough and fruit the comfort of the sun but it sort not  the Cause be for that the root require some comfort from the sun though under  earth as well as the body and the low part of the body more than the Upper as  we see in compass a tree below with straw the lowness of the bough where the  fruit come make the fruit great and to ripen better for you shall ever see in  apricot peach or Melo cotones upon a wall the great fruit towards the bottom  and in France the grape that make the wine grow upon low vine bind to small  stake and the raise vine in arbour make but Veriuyce it be true that in Italy  and other country where they have hot sun they raise they upon elm and tree  but I conceive that if the French manner of plant low be bring in use there  their wine will be strong and sweet but it be more Chargeable in respect of  the prop it be good to try whether a tree graft somewhat near the ground and  the low bough only maintain and the high continual prune off will not make a  large fruit to have fruit in great plenty the way be to graft not only upon  young stock but upon diverse bough of a old tree for they will bear great  number of fruit whereas if you graft but upon one stock the tree can bear but  few the dig yearly about the root of tree which be a great mean both to the  acceleration and melioration of fruit be practice in nothing but in vine which  if it be transfer unto other tree and shrub as rise c I conceive will advance  they likewise it have be know that a fruit tree have be blow up almost by the  root and set up again and the next year bear exceed the Cause of this be  nothing but the Looseming of the earth which comfort any tree and be fit to be  practice more than it be in fruit tree for tree can be so fit remove into new  ground as flower and herb may to revive a old tree the dig of it about the  root and apply new mould to the root be the way we see also that DraughtOxen  put into fresh pasture gather new and tender flesh and in all thing better  nourishment than have be use do help to renew especial if it be not only  better but change and differ from the former if a herb be cut off from the  root in the beginning of winter and then the earth be tread and Beatrice down  hard with the foot and spade the root will become of very great magnitude in  summer the reason be for that the moisture be forbid to come up in the plant  stay long in the root and so dilate it and gardener use to tread down any lose  ground after they have sow onion or turnip c if panicum be lie below and about  the bottom of a root it will cause the root to grow to a excessive bigness the  Cause be for that be it self of a spoungy substance it draw the moisture of  the earth to it and so feed the root this be of great use for onion turnip  parsnip and carrot the shift of ground be a mean to better the tree and fruit  but with this caution that all thing do prosper best when they be advance to  the better your nursery of stock ought to be in a more barren ground than the  ground be whereunto you remove they so all grazier prefer their cattle from  mean pasture to better we see also that hardness in youth lengthen life  because it leave a cherish to the better of the body in age nay in exercise it  be good to begin with the hard as dance in thick shoe c it have be observe  that hack of tree in their bark both down right and across so as you make they  rather in slice than in continue hack do great good to tree and especial  deliver they from be hide bind and kill their moss shade to some plant conduce  to make they large and prosperous more than sun as in strawberry and baize c  therefore among strawberry sow here and there some barrage seed and you shall  find the strawberry under those leave farro more large than their fellow and  baize you must plant to the north or defond they from the sun by a hedgerow  and when you sow the very weed not the border for the first half year for the  weed give they shade to increase the Crops of Ph there will be consider not  only the increase the lust of the earth or of the plant but the save also of  that which be spill so they have late make a trial to set wheat which  nevertheless have be leave off because of the trouble and pain yet so much be  true that there be much save by the set in comparison of that which be sewen  both by keep it from be pick up by bird and by avoid the shallow lie of it  whereby much that be sow take no root it be prescribe by some of the ancient  that you take small tree upon which fig or other fruit grow be yet unripe and  cover the tree in the middle of Autamne with dung until the spring and then  take they up in a warm day and replant they in good ground and by that mean  the former year tree will be ripe as by a new birth when other tree of the  fame kind do but blossom but this seem to have no great probability it be  report that if you take nitre and mingle it with water to the thickness of  honey and therewith anoint the Bud after the vine be cut it will sprout forth  within eight day the Cause be like to be if the experiment be true the open of  the Bud and of the part contiguous by the spirit of the nitre for nitre be as  it be the life of vegetable take seed or kernel of apple Pears orange or a  peach or a plum stone c and put they into a squill which be like a great onion  and they will come up much early than in the earth it self this I conceive no  be as a kind of graft in the root for as the stock of a graft yield better  prepare nourishment to the graft than the Crude earth so the squill do the  like to the seed and I suppose the same will be do by put kernel into a turnip  or the like save that the squill be more vigorous and hot it may be try also  with put onion seed into a onion head which thereby perhaps will bring forth a  large and early onion the prick of a fruit in several place when it be almost  at his bigness and before it ripen have be practice with success to ripen the  fruit more sudden we see the example of the bite of wasp or worm upon fruit  whereby it manifest ripen the soon it be report that Alga Marina seaweed put  under the root of colewort and perhaps of other plant will further their  growth the virtue no doubt have relation to salt which be a great help to  fertility it have be practice to cut off the stalk of cucumber immediate after  their bear close by the earth and then to cast a pretty quantity of earth upon  the plant that remain and they will bear the next year fruit long before the  ordinary time the Cause may be for that the Sap go down the soon and be not  spend in the stalk or lease which remain after the fruit where note that the  die in the winter of the root of plant that be annual seem to be partly cause  by the over expense of the Sap into stalk and leave which be prevent they will  super annates  if they stand warm the pull off many of the blossom from a  fruit tree do make the fruit fair the Cause be manifest for that the Sap have  the less to nourish and it be a common experience that if you do not pull off  some blossom the first time a tree bloom it will blossom it self to death it  be good to try what will be the effect if all the blossom be pull from a fruit  tree or the acorn and chestnut bud c from a wild tree for two year together I  suppose that the tree will either put forth the three year big and more  plentiful fruit or else the same year large leave because of the Sap store up  it have be general receive that a plant water with warm water will come up  soon and better than with cold water or with shower but our experiment of  Watering wheat with warm water as have be say succeed not which may be because  the trial be too late in the year vix in the end of October for the cold then  come upon the seed after it be make more tender by the warm water may check it  there be no doubt but that graft for the most part do meliorate the fruit the  Cause be manifest for that the nourishment be better prepare in the stock than  in the Crude earth but yet note well that there be some tree that be say to  come up more happy from the kernel than from the graft as the peach and  Melocotone the Cause I suppose to he for that those plant require a  nourishment of great moisture and though the nourishment of the stock be fine  and better prepare yet it be not so moist and plentiful as the nourishment of  the earth and indeed we see those fruit be very cold fruit in their nature it  have be receive that a small pear graft upon a stock that bear a great pear  will become great but I think it be as true as that of the prime fruit upon  the late stock and e turning which we reject before for the tions will govern  nevertheless it be probable enough that if you can get a tions to grow upon a  stock of another kind that be much moist than his own stock it may make the  fruit great because it will yield more plentiful nourishment though it be like  it will make the fruit base but general the graft be upon a dry stock as the  apple upon a crab the pear upon a thorn c yet it be report that in the  Low-countries they will graft a apple tions upon the stock of a colewort and  it will bear a great flaggy apple the kernel of which if it be set will be a  colewort and not a apple it be good to try whether a apple tions will prosper  if it be graft upon a sallow or upon a poplar or upon a Alder or upon a elm or  upon a horse plum which be the moistest of tree I have hear that it have be  try upon a elm and succeed it be manifest by experience that flower remove wax  great because the nourishment be more easy come by in the lose earth it may be  that oft regrafting of the same tions may likewise make fruit great as if you  take a tions and graft it upon a stock the first year and then cut it off and  graft it upon another stock the second year and so for a three or four year  and then let it rest it will yield afterward when it bear the great fruit of  graft there be many experiment worth the note but those we reserve to a proper  place it make fig better if a figtree when it begin to put forth leave have  his top cut off the Cause be plain for that the Sap have the less to seed and  the less way to mount but it may be the fig will come somewhat late as be  former touch the same may be try likewise in other tree it be report that  mulberry will be fair and the tree more fruitful if you boar the trunk of the  tree through in several place and thrust into the place boar wedge of some hot  tree as turpentine mastic tree guaiacum Inniper c the Cause may be for that  adventive heat do cheer up the Native juice of the tree it be report that tree  will grow great and bear better fruit if you put salt or lees of wine or blood  to the root the Cause may be the increase the lust or spirit of the root these  thing be more forcible than ordinary compost it be report by one of the  ancient that artichoke will be less prickly and more tender if the seed have  their top dull or grate off upon a stone herb will be tender and fair if you  take they out of bed when they be new come up and remove they into pot with  better earth the remove from bed to bed be speak of before but that be in  several year this be upon the sudden the Cause be the same with other remove  former mention colewort be report by one of the ancient to prosper exceed and  to be better taste if they be sometime water with salt water and much more  with water mix with nitre the spirit of which be less adurent than salt it be  report that cucumber will prove more tender and dainty if their seed be steep  a little in milk the Cause may be for that the seed be mollify with the milk  will be too weak to draw the gross juice of the earth but only the fine the  same experiment may be make in artichoke and other seed when you will take  away either their flashinesse or bitterness they speak also that the like  effect follow of steep in water mix with honey but that seem to I not so  probable because honey have too quick a spirit it be report that cucumber will  be less watery and more Melonlike it in the pit where you set they you fill it  half way up with chaff or small stick and then pour earth upon they for  cucumber as it seem do extreme affect moisture and over drink themselves which  this chaff or chip forbid nay it be further report that if when a cucumber be  grow you fetch a pot of water about five or six inch distance from it it will  in hour shoot so much out as to touch the pot which if it be true it be a  experiment of a high nature than belong to this Title for it discover  perception in plant to move towards that which shall help and comfort they  though it be at a distance the ancient tradition of the vine be far more  strange it be that if you set a stake or prop some distance from it it will  grow that way which be far stranger as be say than the other for that water  may work by a sympathy of attraction but this of the stake seem to be a  reasonable discourse it have be touch before that terebration of tree do make  they prosper better but it be find also that it make the fruit sweet and  better the Cause be for that notwithstanding the terebration they may receive  aliment sufficient and yet no more than they can well turn and digest and  withal do sweat out the course and unprofitable juice even as it be in line  creature which by moderate feed and exercise and sweat attain the sound habit  of body as terebration do meliorate fruit so upon the like reason do let of  plant blood as prick vine or other tree after they be of some growth and  thereby let forth gum or tear though this be not to continue as it be in  terebration but at some season and it be report that by this artifice bitter  almond have be turn into sweet the ancient for the dulcorating of fruit do  commend SwinesDung above all other dung which may be because of the moisture  of that beast whereby the excrement have less acrimony for we see swine and  big flesh be the moistest of flesh it be observe by some that all herb wax  sweet both in smell and taste if after they be grow up some reasonable time  they be cut and so you take the latter sprout the Cause may be for that the  long the juice stay in the root and stalk the better it concoct for one of the  chief cause why grain seed and fruit be more nourish than lean be the length  of time in which they grow to maturation it be not amiss to keep back the Sap  of herb or the like by some fit mean till the end of summer whereby it may be  they will be more nourish as graft do general advance and meliorate fruit  above that which they will be if they be set of kernel or stone in regard the  nourishment be better concoct so no doubt even in graft for the same cause the  choice of the stock do much always provide that it be somewhat inferior to the  tions for otherwise it dull it they commend much the graft of Pears or apple  upon a quince beside the mean of melioration of fruit before mention it be set  down as try that a mixture of bran and swine dung or chaff and swine dung  especial lie up together for a month to rot be a very great nourisher and  comforter to a fruit tree it be deliver that onion wax great if they be take  out of the earth and lie a dry twenty day and then set again and yet more if  the outermost peel be take off all over it be deliver by some that if one take  the bough of a low Fruittree new bud and draw it gentle without hurt it into a  earthen pot perforate at the bottom to let in the plant and then cover the pot  with earth it will yield a very large fruit within the ground which experiment  be nothing but pot of plant without remove and leave the fruit in the earth  the like they say will be effect by a empty pot without earth in it put over a  fruit be prop up with a stake as it hang upon the tree and the better if some  few Pertusions be make in the pot wherein beside the defend of the fruit from  extremity of sun or weather some give a reason that the fruit love and covet  the open air and sun be invite by those Pertusions to spread and approach as  near the open air as it can and so enlarge in magnitude all tree in high and  sandy ground be to be set deep and in watery ground more shallow and in all  tree when they be remove especial fruit tree care ought to be take that the  side of the tree be coast north and south c as they stand before the same be  say also of stone out of the quarry to make it more durable though that seem  to have less reason because the stone lie not so near the sun as the tree grow  timber tree in a coppice wood do grow better than in a open field both because  they offer not to spread so much but shoot up still in height and chief  because they be defend from too much sun and wind which do check the growth of  all fruit and so no doubt fruit tree or vine set upon a wall against the sun  between elbow or buttress of stone ripen more than upon a plain wall it be say  that if Potado root be set in a pot fill with earth and then the pot with  earth be set likewise within the ground some two or three inch the root will  grow great than ordinary the Cause may be for that have earth enough within  the pot to nourish they and then be stop by the bottom of the pot from put  string downward they must needs grow great in breadth and thickness and it may  be that all seed or root pot and so set into the earth will prosper the better  the cut off the leave of radish or other root in the beginning of winter  before they wither and cover again the root something high with earth will  preserve the root all winter and make it big in the spring follow as have be  partly touch before so that there be a double use of this cut off the leave  for in plant where the root be the esculent as radish and parsnip it will make  the root the great and so it will do to the head of onion and where the fruit  be the esculent by strengthen the root it will make the fruit also the great  it be a experiment of great pleasure to make the leave of shady tree large  than ordinary it have be try for certain that a tions of a weech elm graft  upon the stock of a ordinary elm will put forth leave almost as broad as the  brim of one Hat and it be very likely that as in fruit tree the graft make a  great fruit so in tree that bear no fruit it will make the great leave it will  be try therefore in tree of that kind chief as birch Asp willow and especial  the shine willow which they call swallow tail because of the pleasure of the  leaf the barrenness of tree by accident beside the weakness of the soil seed  or root and the injury of the weather come either of their over grow with moss  or their be hide bind or their plant too deep or by issue of the Sap too much  into the leave for all these there be remedy mention before we see that in  live creature that have male and female there be copulation of several kind  and so compound creature as the mule that be generate betwixt the horse and  the ass and some other compound which we call monster though more rare and it  be hold that that proverb Africa always to some degree monster make ready come  for that the fountain of water there be rare diverse sort of beast come from  several part to drink and so be refresh fall to couple and many time with  several kind the compound or mixture of kind in plant be not find out which  nevertheless if it be possible be more at command than that of live creature  for that their lust require a voluntary motion wherefore it be one of the most  noble experiment touch plant to find it out for so you may have great variety  of new fruit and flower yet unknown graft do it not that mend the fruit or  double the flower c but it have not the power to make a new kind for the tions  ever over rule the stock it have be set down by one of the ancient that if you  take two twig of several fruit tree and flat they on the side and then bind  they close together and set they in the ground they will come up in one stock  but yet they will put forth their several fruit without any commixture in the  fruit wherein note by the way that unity of continuance be easy to procure  than unity of species it be report also that vine of read and white grape be  set in the ground and the upper part be flat and bind close together will put  forth grape of the several colour upon the same branch and grape stone of  several colour within the same grape but the more after a year or two the  unity as it seem grow more perfect and this will likewise help if from the  first unite they be often water for all moisture help to union and it be  prescribe also to bind the Bud as soon as it come forth as well as the stock  at the least for a time they report that diverse seed put into a clout and lie  in earth well dung will put up plant contiguous which afterward be bind in  their shoot will incorporate the like be say of kernel put into a bottle with  a narrow mouth fill with earth it be report that young tree of several kind  set contiguous without any bind and very often water in a fruitful ground with  the very luxury of the tree will incorporate and grow together which seem to I  the likely mean that have be propound for that the bind do hinder the natural  swell of the tree which while it be in motion do better unite there be many  ancient and receive tradition and observation touch the sympathy and antipathy  of plant for that some will thrive best grow near other which they impute to  sympathy and some worse which they impute to antipathy but these be idle and  ignorant conceit and forsake the true indication of the cause as the most part  of experiment that concern sympathy and antipathy do for as to plant neither  be there any such secret friendship or hatred as they imagine and if we shall  be content to call it sympathy and antipathy it be utter mistake for their  sympathy be a antipathy and their antipathy be a sympathy for it be thus  wheresoever one plant draw such a particular juice out of the earth as it  qualify the earth so as that juice which remain be fit for the other plant  there the neighbourhood do good because the nourishments be contrary or  several but where two plant draw much the same juice there the neighbourhood  hurt for the one deceive the other first therefore all plant that do draw much  nourishment from the earth and so soak the earth and exhaust it hurt all thing  that grow by they as great tree especial ash and such tree as spread their  root near the top of the ground so the colewort be not a enemy though that be  ancient receive to the vine only but it be a enemy to any other plant because  it draw strong the fat juice of the earth and if it be true that the vine when  it creep near the colewort will turneaway this may be because there it find  worse nourishment for though the root be where it be yet I doubt the plant  will bend as it nourish where plant be of several nature and draw several  juice out of the earth there as have be say the one set by the other help as  it be set down by diverse of the ancient that rue do prosper much and become  strong if it be set by a fig tree which we conceive be cause not by reason of  friendship but by extraction of a contrary juice the one draw juice fit to  result sweet the other bitter so they have set down likewise that a rise set  by garlic be sweet which likewise may be because the more of an ill smell  juice of the earth go into the garlic and the more odorate into the rise this  we see manifest that there be certain corn flower which come seldom or never  in other place unless they be set but only among corn as the blue bottle a  kind of Yellow marry gold wild poppy and fumitory neither can this be by  reason of the culture of the ground by blow or furrow as some herb and flower  will grow but in ditch new cast for if the ground lie sallow and unsown they  will not come so as it shall seem to be the corn that qualify the earth and  prepare it for their growth this observation if it hold as it be very probable  be of great use for the meliorate of taste in fruit and esculent herb and of  the send of flower for I do not doubt but if the fig tree do make the rue more  strong and bitter as the ancient have note good store of rue plant about the  fig tree will make the fig more sweet now the taste that do most offend in  fruit and herb and root be bitter harrish sour and waterish or flashy it be  good therefore to make the trial follow take wormwood or rue and set it near  lettuce or Goleflory or Artihoake and see whether the lettuce or the Coleflory  c become not the sweet take a service tree or a cornelian tree or a elder tree  which we know have fruit of harsh and bind juice and set they near a vine or  fig tree and see whether the grape or fig will be the sweet take cucumber or  Pumpions and set they here and there among musk melon and see whether the  melon will not be more winy and better taste set cucumber likewise among  radish and see whether the radish will not be make the more bite take sorrel  and set it among Rosps and see whether the rasp will not be the sweet take  common Briar and set it among violet or wall flower and see whether it will  not make the violet or wall flower sweet and less earthy in their smell so set  lettuce or cucumber among rosemary or baize and see whether the rosemary on  baize will not be the more odorate or aromatical contrariwise you must take  heed how you set herb together that draw much the like juice and therefore I  think rosemary will lose in sweetness if it be set with lavender or baize or  the like but yet if you will correct the strength of a herb you shall do well  to set other like herb by he to take he down as if you shall set tansy by  Angelica it may be the Angelica will be the weak and fit for mixture in  perfume and if you shall set rue by common wormwood it may be the wormwood  will turn to be like Roman Worniewood this axiom be of large extent and  therefore will be sever and refine by trial neither must you expect to have a  grass difference by this kind of culture but only further perfection trial  will be also make in herb poisonous and Purgatine who ill quality perhaps may  be discharge or attempt by set strong poison or Purgatines by they it be  report that the Shrub call our lady seal which be a kind of briony and  colewort set near together one or both will die the Cause be for that they be  both great Depredatours of the earth and one of they starve the other the like  be say of a reed and a break both which be succulent and therefore the one  deceive the other and the like of hemlock and rue both which draw strong  luyces some of the ancient and likewise diures of the modern writer that have  labour in natural magic have note a sympathy between the sun moon and some  principal star and certain herb and plant and so they have denominate some  herb solar and some lunar and such like toy put into great word it be manifest  that there be some flower that have respect to the sun in two kind the one by  open and shut and the other by bow and incline the head for marry gold  Tulippa's Pimperell and indeed most flower do open or spread their leave  abroad when the sun shine serene and fair and again in some part close they or  gather they inward either towards night or when the sky be overcast of this  there needs no such solemn reason to be assign as to say that they rejoice at  the presence of the sun and mourn at the absence thereof for it be nothing  else but a little load of the leave and swell they at the bottom with the  moisture of the air whereas the dry air do extend they and they make it a  piece of the wonder that garden claver will hide the stalk when the sun show  bright which be nothing but a full expansion of the leave for the bow and  incline the head it be find in the great flower of the sun in marry gold wart  wort mallow flower and other the Cause be somewhat more obscure than the  former but I take it to be no other but that the part against which the sun  Beatrice wax more faint and flaccid in the stalk and thereby less able to  support the flower what a little moisture will do in vegetable even though  they be dead and sever from the earth appear well in the experiment of inglers  they take the beard of a oat which if you mark it well be wreathe at the  bottom and one smooth entire straw at the top they take only the part that be  wreathe and cut off the other leave the beard half the breadth of a finger in  length then they make a little cross of a quill long way of that part of the  quill which have the pith and cross way of that piece of the quill without  pith the whole cross be the breadth of a finger high then they prick the  bottom where the pith be and thereinto they put the oaten beard leave half of  it stick forth of the quill then they take a little white box of wood to  deceive man as if somewhat in the box do work the Feat in which with a pin  they make a little hold enough to take the beard but not to let the cross sink  down but to stick then likewise by way of imposture they make a question as  who be the fair woman in the company or who have a glove or card and cause  another to name diverse person and upon every name they stick the cross in the  box have first put it towards their mouth as if they charm it and the crass  stir not but when they come to the person that they will take as they hold the  to speak to their mouth they touch the beard with the tip of their tongue and  wet it and so stick the cross in the box and then you shall see it turn fine  and soft three or four turn which be cause by the untwining of the beard by  the moisture you may see it more evident if you stick the cross between your  finger in stead of the box and therefore you may see that this motion which be  effect by so little Wet be strong than the close or bend of the head of a  marigold it be report by some that the herb call rose sun whereof they make  strong water will at the noonday when the sun shine hot and bright have a  great due upon it and therefore that the right name be Ros sun which they  impute to a delight and sympathy that it have with the sun man favour wonder  it be good first to be sure that the due that be find upon it be not the due  of the morning preserve when the due of other herb be breathe away for it have  a smooth and thick leaf that do not discharge the due so soon as other herb  that be more spoungy and porous and it may be purslane or some other herb do  the like and be not mark but if it be so that it have more due at noon than in  the morning then sure it seem to be a exudation of the herb be self as plum  sweat when they be set into the oven for you will not I hope think that it be  like gideno's Fleeel of wood that the due shall fail upon that and no where  else it be certain that the honey due be find more upon Oahe lees than upon a  of beech or the like but whether any Cause be from the leaf it self to concoct  the due or whether it be only that the leaf be close and smooth and therefore  drink not in the due but preserve it may be doubt it will be well inquire  whether ma the drug do fall but upon certain herb or l only flower that have  deep socket do gather in the bottom a kind of honey as honey suckle both the  woodbine and the Trisoile Dillier and the like and in they certain the flower  bear part with the due the experience be that the froth which they call  Woodsears be like a kind of spittle be find but upon certain herb and those  hot one as lavender cotton sage Hissope c of the Cause of this inquire further  for it seem a secret there fall also mildew upon corn and smutts it but it may  be that the same shall also upon other herb and be not observe it be good  trial be make whether the great consent between plant and water which be a  principal nourishment of they will make a attraction or distance and not at  touch only therefore take a vessel and in the middle of it make a false bottom  of course Canaffe fill it with e above the Canuaffey and let not the Barh be  waed then sow some good seed in that earth but the Canuaffe some half a foot  in the bottom of the vessel lie a great Spge thowly wet in water and let it  lie so some ten day and see whether the seed will sprout and the earth become  more moist and the sponge more dry the experiment former mention of the  cucumber creep to the pot of water be far stranger than this the alter of the  send colour or taste of fruit by infuse mix or let into the bark or roast of  the tree herb or flower any colour aromatical or medicinal substance be but  fancy the Cause be for that those thing have pass their period and nourish not  and all alteration of vegetable in those Qualitles must be by somewhat that be  apt to go into the nourishment of the plant but this be true that where Kine  feed upon wild garlic their milk taste plain of the garlic and the flesh of  mutton be better taste where the sheep feed upon wild thyme and other  wholesome herb Galen also speak of the cure of the Scirrus of the liver by  milk of a cow that feed but upon certain herb and honey in Spain smell  apparent of the rosemary or orange from whence the be gather it and there be a  old tradition of a maiden that be feed with Napellus which be count the strong  poison of all vegetable which with use do not hurt the maid but poison some  that have carnal company with her so it be observe by some that there be a  virtuous Bexoar and another without virtue which appear to the show alike but  the virtuous be take from the beast that feed upon the mountain where there be  theriacal herb and that without virtue from those that feed in the valley  where no such herb be thus far I be of opinion that as steep wine and Beeres  be very medicinal and likewise breed temper with diverse powder so of meat  also as flesh fish milk and egg that they may be make of great use for  medicine and diet if the beast foul or fish be feed with a special kind of  food fit for the disease it be a dangerous thing also for secret  Empoysonthents but whether it may be apply unto plant and herb I doubt more  because the nourishment of they be a more common juice which be hardly capable  of any special quality until the plant do assimilate it but lest our  incredulity may prejudice any profitable operation in this kind especial since  many of the ancient have set they down we think good brief to propound the  four mean which they have devise of make plant medicinable the first be by  slit of the root and infuse into it the medicine as hellebore opium scammony  treacle c and then bind it up again this seem to I the least probable because  the root draw immediate from the earth and so the nourishment be the more  common and less qualify and beside it be a long time in go up ere it come to  the fruit the second way be to perforate the body of the tree and there to  infuse the medicine which be somewhat better for if any virtue be receive from  the medicine it have the less way and the less time to go up the three be the  steep of the seed or kernel in some liquor wherein the medicine be infuse  which I have little opinion of because the seed I doubt will not draw the part  of the matter which have the propriety but it will be far the more likely if  you mingle the medicine with dung for that the seed natural draw the moisture  of the dung may call in withal some of the propriety the four be the water of  the plant oft with a infusion of the medicine this in one respect may have  more force than the rest because the medication be oft renew whereas the rest  be apply but at one time and therefore the virtue may the soon vanish but  still I doubt that the root be somewhat too stubborn to receive those fine  impression and beside as I say before they have a great hill to go up I judge  therefore the likely way to be the perforation of the body of the tree in  senerall place one above the other and the fill of the hold with dung mingle  with the medicine and the water of those lump of dung with squirt of a  infusion of the medicine in dung water once in three or four day