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A27154	Herefordshire orchards, a pattern for all England written in an epistolary address to Samuel Hartlib, Esq. / by I.B.	Beale, John, 1603-1683?; Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.	1657 (1657)	Wing B1558; ESTC R4687	19,414	66

replantation be not engaged to maintain too many suckers And this must be done with such discretion that the top-branches be not too close together for the naturall plant is apt to grow spiry thereby failes of fruitfulnesse Therefore let the reserved branches be divided at a convenient roundnesse The branches that are cut off may be set and will grow but slowly If the top prove spiry or the fruit unkind then the due remedy must be in graffing Neither is graffing to be used only as a remedy For it doth most certainly improve the kind of the fruit insomuch that a graft of the same fruit doth meliorate the fruit as is lately much observed by our Welsh neighbours who do graffe the Gennet-moyle upon the same stock and thereby obtain a larger apple more juicy and better for all uses and some triplicate their graffings for a curiosity upon the same account And it is noted amongst us that a pearmain or any other pleasant fruit either for cider or the table is much sweeter if grafted upon the stock of a Gennet-moyle or Kydoddin than if grafted on a crab-stock though much lesse lasting upon the stock of the Gennet-moyle the Gennet-moyl being also lesse lasting especially amongst us where they are generally planted of large setlings which must needs wound them in their very beginnings and therefore hinder their duration Also graffing doth much precipitate or at least expedite the reward especially if the graffe be taken from a branch that hath some yeares constantly born sound fruit plentifully Trust not to one yeares triall Potest enim vel anni proventu vel aliis de causis etiā naturaliter infoecunda semel exuberare sed ubi plurimis velut emeritis annorum stipendiis fides surculo constitit nihil dubitandum est de foecunditate nec tamen ultra quadriennium talis extenditur inquisitio saith Columella in a like case lib. 3. c. 6. 1. Thus we see how to hasten the reward both by graffing and in the choice of the graffe 2. And how to sweeten the fruit and better it both by the choice of a pleasing stock and also of a kind graffe 3. And how to multiply variety in the diversity of compost especially at the first plantation of the kernell and I add with frequent application of pleasant infusions and liquids as in which annise seeds fennel rosemary or other agreeable aromaticks have been steeped yet beware of giving too much juice to a young plant for that may drown it or make it lesse gustfull And I never saw an Orchard prove where the ground was wetted with a water-gall or where the moisture did for some time lye there and could not be drained away Yet near a running sink of soyled water I have seen the approaching trees never fail of their fruit 4. And hence we see how to plant an Orchard that may probably remain to the worlds end And in this point I have insinuated some part of my paradoxes by the way of a story and in pretence of defending another against the opinion common practise of mine own Countrey-men Mr. Lawsons book I have not now at hand neither can I record his judgement verbally but I think I have stuck close to his sense He addeth that the fruit of the naturall plant doth grow better and pleasanter by time as better at thirty yeares growth than at twenty yeares growth This I know not See Chap. 7. pag. 18 19. Also he requireth much more distance of the trees than we observe as sixty foot at least Our common Orchards are at twenty foot distance our best Orchards at thirty at least by alternative rowes per quincuncem In large crofts of arable reserved for constant tillage which is a necessary help to fruit-trees our best husbands graft high and preferre Lawsons utmost distance even sixty yards that the teames may not annoy the trees and then the trees bear a full load of fruit and spread to the naturall perfection This I adde that if you would have the trees grow tall and shadow more in Summer and keep off winds better in Winter and the fruit the sweeter then you should plant the closer together yet never nearer then twenty foot To conclude my paradoxes He that is provided of a nursery need not be very nicely provident for the longevity of his trees A small parcell of ground will furnish store for all his grounds and for all his neighbourhood to play away upon graffings and novell experiments And to encourage this nursery I now summ up all with my last paradox That for these four last yeares whereof two were very dry Summers I laid the fruitfull sprayes of naturall apple-plants in the ground some very small not two foot above ground all thereabout and from the first Summer to this present Spring they never failed to bear as thick as traces of onyons But it is better for the plant if you pull off the young apples soon after they be knitted the first year at least Some I laid also of four yards length under ground the sprayes lying slope above ground these grow and bear incredibly Others I slope and pare away the bordering turfe that the reflected Sun may give me the early benefit of a dwarf Orchard and these against Midsummer are as big as a Ladies fist I present them to store of witnesses If I dwelt neer Cheapside I should make my new-planted Nursery as rich as an Orchard All naturall apples are not of this precocity the more durable as I said before are much more sullen Some require a knot for the root others not all three the better for it To some a small slice from the bark is as good Before December whilst the spray growes on the tree by the bluntness of the bud you may discover what branch will bear fruit the next Summer immediately following if you cut off the branch and set it before the buds be sprouted too far forward as you may in February or the beginning of March This with some will passe as a prophesy A sore blast or May-Frosts may deceive you Of these naturall apples there are not past six or seven kinds distinguished by proper names amongst us I conceive they can never be distinguished for that every individuall alwayes assumes a peculiar nature from the infinite variety of compost In this nursery 't is the same pains and no charge to try the seeds of firres pines cypres pitch c. which prove better for replantation than in hote beds Of the Art of graffing either with the ciens bud or leaf I shall say nothing because every village amongst us yieldeth store of Artists and many books shew the rules but in these things an Artist can teach more in a day than a book in a moneth One reason why fruit do so abound in this County is for that no man hath of late years built him a house but with speciall regard to the proximity of some ground fit for an Orchard which should