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A90748	The second part of the Garden of Eden. Or An accurate description of all flowers and fruits growing in England; with partuicular [sic] rules how to advance their nature and growth, as well in seeds and herbs, as the secret ordering of trees and plants. / By that learned and great observer, Sir Hugh Plat Knight. Never before printed.; Garden of Eden. Part 2	Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1611?	1659 (1659)	Wing P2392; Thomason E1804_2; ESTC R203175	42,070	161

less into leaves thou must assure thy self that thy Cions is ready to be taken off and graffed in such a stock as hath also buds of the like colour and bigness unto them by which means they will so jump in a sympathy of Nature together as that they will most lovingly and kindly embrace each other And note that the stock must always be as forward at the least as the Cions for otherwise the Stock will starve the Cions 75. The manner of implastering Inoculating or Graffing in the bud with all necessary circumstances In some smooth part of the Stock whereupon you mean to graff you must first slit the bark about half an inch overthwart the body or branch then slit likewise the bark thereof downward from the midst of the overthwart slit somewhat more then an inch in length into which convey your bud with the leaf at it so as you place bark to bark at the upper end and croping of the uppermost part of the leaf then binde the bark of the stock about the bud with such bands as are commonly used in the binding up of Brawn and close up the joynt with Loam and Moss well tempered together at three weeks end you must take off that band because the bud will swell and then you must binde the same again more easily with a new band but some do hold it sufficient to slit the band only in the backside and so to leave it Note that in the gathering of your bud you must be careful that you hurt not the bud in the inner side of the bark when you divide the same from the branch whereon it grew for if you finde any hole or pit therein it is a manifest sign that you have left the bud behind for the avoiding of which danger the best way of all other that ever I could finde was to slope the bark a little upward in taking off the bud and to slit down at the sides and bottom thereof so as it may be a pretty large square and then putting in your finger gently at the upper end to draw the same downward as you would slip off an Eels-skin this bud you must place in a square hole cut out of purpose for the same and sitting bark to bark as near as you can in every place Some in gathering of the leaf with the bud do make an overthwart slit a little above the leaf which leaf would be such a one as hath a fair swelling bud by it then they slit the bark on either side for the leaf and so make the same to meet in the base point in form of an Eschocheon Some do hold the best time of this graffing to be about the midst of June or few days before or after and some about the twelfth or fourteenth of June but you shall finde out the best time of all for this practice by the sappiness of the Tree when you slit the same and by the smooth and easie dividing of the Bark from the Tree If your bud take well then must you cut off the stock or branch whereon you have thus graffed about the end of December a shaftment about the bud and when the bud hath afterwards given a sufficient shoot then may you take off the branch or body whereon you graffed close at the bark of the bud sloping the same upward with your knife When you go about this work chuse a fair milde and temperate day and shun all rainy and windy weather Note also that after you have taken off your buds and untill you have sitted them in their stock or branch you must lay them in a sawcer of fair water to keep them moist and graff them as speedily as you may Cut the bands in sunder in the backside about three weeks or a moneth after you have graffed close it at the first with wax besides the bands let the schocheon be rather a little too big then any thing too little especially at the bottom for his place because it will shrink and be sure you close your schocheon well at the bottom and so likewise in the graffing of a Cion By this Art one smal twig well chosen and being full of buds will serve to graff sundry Trees and it is not amiss to graff in divers places of the same Tree if some should miss for this graffing though it take not doth not any way impair or hurt the Tree Graff Apple-tree-buds upon Apple-tree-stocks and so of Pear-trees and Stone-fruit-buds upon Stone-fruit-stocks Quaere of graffing one Rose upon another or upon any other Tree or branch Quaere if the bud would not be graffed in a shoot of the same year In stones Fruit it is thought better to graff upon a shoot of three years old at the least but in Pear-trees or Apples you may graff this way upon a shoot of one year Prepare your stock first and presently apply the bud for it is a rule in all graffing whatsoever the sooner that you close them the more ready they will be to knit together even as a piece of flesh that is newly cut being presently bound up will heal more speedily whilst the vital spirits be yet warm 76. How to sow sufficiently in the wain or encrease of the Moon notwithstanding the unseasonableness of the weather It is a common received opinion at this day that it is necessary to sow all seeds which you would have to run to seed again in the encrease of the Moon except Beans and Pease which must be sowed in the wane of the Moon the nearer the change the better and so likewise to sow all such seeds as you would have to bring large roots and not to run to seed in the wane of the Moon as Parsenips Carrets Radish and generally all Pot-hearbs now if either the wane or encrease prove so wet and showry or so cold and frosty that you cannot conveniently sow your seeds in their due season then mingle well together each seed with a sufficient quantity of fine and rich mold and leave them so together in pots pans or dishes till you finde apt weather to sow them abroad and so you shall not be forced to lose any season at all Quaere if all these pots or pans were set in a stove or other warm place if so the seed would not be much forwarder then if they had been scattered abroad Or else you may sow them the earth being moist so as you provide sufficient store of dry mold or earth to cover the seeds 77. How to have Garden Pease or French-Beans to grow without the help of sticks or poles Set one row of Beans and another of Pease some five or six inches asunder and the Bean stalks will outgrow the Pease and be strong enough to support the Pease your French Beans you may prick round about your Trees in your Orchard suffering them to climb up by the bodies and if need be you may binde them to the trees with rushes or some such gentle

Quaere of adding the gelly of horn dissolved in lime-water to the roots of them to make them more forward Quaere of lapping of thin sheet-lead upon the bodies of your Trees to enforce the heat of the sun upon them You may chuse such a plat for this purpose as is either naturally or artificially defended from the North and East winds by hills walls pails or hedges but so as the Sun be not kept also from them 101. How to multiply the double Honeysuckle Jesamie Lay a number of their stalks or brances in the earth and each sprig will become a root the next year and so you may store your self of any slender Plant either to sell or give to your friends and by this means you may make one root to run at what length you please in time laying the shoot into the earth as it groweth to any reasonable length 102. How to have a Vineyard to bear Grapes the first year Let such shoots as are most likely to bear Grapes run through the sides of pretty big baskets opening the twigs to make passage for the branches and filling the baskets full of earth in cutting time Quaere if there need to be any wreathing of the branch or hacking of the bark as before num 100. in the dwarfing of Trees to make them root the sooner These baskets may afterwards be placed in any plat where you mean to make a Vineyard and they will bear the first year the reason is apparent Note if your Vine whereon you dwarf do run upon a frame then you may easily place the basket upon the frame and if they run upon a wall then may you hang the basket by the ears to the wall Some do use pots with holes bored through both the sides of them But I do hold the baskets the better way because they will soon rot being put into the ground whereby the earth needeth not to be loosened from the roots neither will they take so strong a heat in the Summer time to parch them away before they be fully rooted as the stone pot will do 103. How to graff in a dead trunck or stock of a Willow-tree Put a Willow-stock quaere if it must not be green and fresh into a furrow of earth made for that purpose make clefts or slits in the same fit for such branches of the Mulberry-tree as you will graff therein they must be made like wedges joyning sap to sap then close up the clifts and defend them from weather and then put all the stock of the willow under the furrow this is borrowed out of Celsus And one skilful in planting told me that no Tree will perish that is planted in this manner After the first second year past thou mayst also saw or cut the trunck in sunder between the Plants and transplant them in places convenient Ex vetere lib. manuscrip Th. Gasc 104. To help a tree whose stock or fruit beginneth to rot When this happeneth it is a sign that the bark of the Tree is sick and therefore slit the same with a knife and when the bad humor is sufficiently spent dung the Tree well and close the wood with tempered clay Ibid. 105. That the Peach-stone may have no kernel Graff a Cions of a Peach-tree upon a Nut-tree Ibid. 106. To make a Peach-tree bring forth Pomgranates Water the same with Goats milk three days together when it beginneth to flower Ibid. Quis hoc credat nisi sit pro teste vetustas 107. To have great store of Sage speedily A Monk told me that if thou sow the seed of Sage well ripe as thou sowest other seeds in good earth that it will multiply exceedingly Ibid. 108. To have several grapes growing upon one branch and and so of Roses Gilliflowers c. Plant a white and a red Vine closs together and being both rooted set a branch of either of them together in the top sloping them upward unto the pith joyn them sap to sap binde them together wrapping a supple linnen cloth about them and at three days end moisten them with water till it burgeon Quaere if after a convenient time one of the roots may not be taken away to make it seem the more strange Quaere if this may not also be performed in other Fruit-trees Roses Gilliflowers c. Ibid. 109. How to have trees of Time Hysop Lavender Rosemary c. Quaere if by some one or other of the ways of graffing the same may not be performed Rocellae ruta caules in arbores mutantur teste Cardano in lib. de rer variet p. 225. 110. How to keep Grapes upon the Vine till the Calends of January and so of other fruit and flowers as also to keep backward both fruit and flowers Servantur in arbore sacculo ex papiro nostra circumposito Card. in lib. de variet rer 224. Quaere if an oiled paper will not perform this especially if the paper be oiled over often as occasion serveth and the thred also oiled with it Quaere also if oyled papers especially two or three double or more will not keep any fruit backward by defending the Sun from it but then it will be necessary as I think to give some vent by pin holes underneath least the heat of the Sun do burn up the fruit and work a distillation upon it let the thred also be well oyled or waxed wherewith you tye your paper If Lin-seed-oyl alone will not serve mix some powdred Amber therewith in the boiling according to that set down in my Book of Experiments for this is an excellent secret and to be applied many ways if it be true and it seemeth very probable This is a delicate device to defend Gilliflower pots in winter from the cold and in Summer from the heat Quaere if a Bladder will not serve instead of an oiled paper Quaere if taking away the bark almost round or round when the fruit is near ripe 111. How to make Pears Apples Plums Grapes c. to dry as they grow Before they be fully ripe wreath the stalk of every fruit by this means the fruit wanting nourishment will grow dry as it hangeth on the Trees Ex veter lib. manuscrip Th. Gasc Quaere of taking away the bark round about the branches that bear the fruit 112. How to destroy Caterpillers Make a ring of tar towards the bottom of the Tree then hang a bag full of Pismires by a cord in the top of the Tree so as they may easily get out and the Ants when they cannot get down by reason of the tar rather then they will starve for hunger will eat up all the Caterpillers per Lupton 282. 113. Secrets in Pompeons Musk-mellons Strawberries and Artichokes to make them prosper and grow great Temper fat mold with cream and therein prick your Pompeon-seeds the mold being in a pot or earthen pan cover them in the night and in cold weather and when it is warm or during the sun-shine uncover

pipe unto every part of the earth 30. Walks of green trees in winter If it be possible any way without fire or great charge to have green Okes Elms or other Trees at Christmas then I hold this for one of the likeliest To graff in the bud or otherwise any of the aforesaid Trees upon the Bay or Holly-tree which seem to have strong and hot sap by their greenness in winter time If this prove you may graff and imp in the bud all sorts of Fruit-trees upon the aforesaid stock whereby you may have most comfortable and dainty Walks in your Orchard or Garden Mr. Maskalls Book of the art of grafting fol. 56. Some commend the planting of Fir-trees in Walks for this purpose Iron backs to your pots 31. Quaere if it be not good in the Summer and Spring time to place concave backs of iron or tin plates in every pot wherein you have planted either Dwarf-trees or Flowers and so to remove your pots from time to time as they may best receive the reflection of the Sun whereby to ripen them the sooner use the like against your clusters of Grapes Quaere if it be not good to plant Vines in moist grounds in respect of this secret A second crop of the same beans 32. If you cut down Beans as soon as they have done bearing and that the year prove a dripping year you may have a second crop growing from the same stalk that will come late this I have proved in my Garden in St. Martins-lane Quaere of Pease otherwise you must water them presently upon the cutting down and now and then after as the weather shall give occasion 33. Several waters I think of all waters that are not infused rain water to be the best of all other to water your delicate plants with but if for want thereof you shall be forced to water them with common water yet let the same stand in a great stone or wooden vessel three or four days in the Sun before you water therewith but for the better forwarding of your Fruit and Flowers you may prove brackish water viz. such as cometh near in proportion of saltness to the Sea-water which is one part salt to twenty parts of water or much thereabouts but this may not be used often for burning of your plants or rather you may try water infused upon common ashes or sopeashes and all manner of dung or wherein there hath been store of Hay Litter or some other Herbs infused you may also prove Wine Milk Wine-Lees Strong-Beer and Aqua composita if they be not too chargeable Quaere of Sopesuds and powder Beef broth quaere if it be not better also to water your plants with the said water or liquors being made first blood warm plus post 35. Quaere of the strength or heart of much earth extracted by common water or rain water and then evaporated to a smal quantity wherewith you may water your plants to make them encrease exceedingly 34. Backwarding of Fruits and Flowers Quaere of grafting Cherry-trees upon Apple-trees or Pear-trees and so generally of all Flowers and Fruit that may be grafted if being grafted upon such kinde as be late and backward in bearing if so the same will not bear their fruit much later 35. Roses early About three weeks or a moneth before their usual time of bearing water your Roses morning and evening onely with warm water and by this means a Cambridge man had Roses yearly some twenty four daies before others quaere of this practice in all other Flowers especially the water being first prepared ut supra num 33. Early Cherries 36. A French-man did greatly commend unto me the applying of unfleakt lime to the roots of Cherry-trees being first made bare in a convenient time of the year quaere if it be not better to sleak it first with water and this for the forwarding of them in their bearing Quaere if one part lime and one part earth or one part lime and one part hors-dung This practice destroyeth the Tree in a few years but that loss is supplied with the advantage in the price of such early fruit Quaere of Sopeashes laid at their roots 37. Artichoke and Stawberries to grow great Lay sheeps dung in soak in water for a convenient time and water your Artichokes therewith and it will make them very great So likewise wil the water wherein dung hath been steeped make Strawberries very large and great An antient Citizen in London did use in the winter time to burn the earth from the roots of his Artichokes and instead thereof to lay in some of his waste Sopeashes and he found the same to forward them greatly 38. A speedy Orchard Slope your Stock upward and slope your Cions downward and joyn back to back binde them together as Colliers do their whips and close the joynts with tempered Loam and Moss or rather with wax ut postea 110. This is called the Whip-stock grafting and you may in this manner graff a whole bow of a Tree to have an Orchard that shall bear fruit speedily Grapes growing late and kept long 39. Put the bunches of Grapes after they are knit into great and apt glasses having two mouthes holes or little pipes the one just opposite to the other viz. the one upward the other downward whereby both the water and the sun may have issue And when you fear the frosts you may stop up the ends closs and by this means you may happen to have Grapes growing upon the Vines at Christmas or else when the Grapes are ripe if you cut off a long branch of the Vine which hath one two or three clusters of Grapes upon it and at either end of the cutting if you put a Pomwater and every three days or six days change your Apples tying a thread in the midst of the cutting and so hang the same up in a cool and dry place they will keep fresh a long time Some thrust onely the stalk whereon the bunch groweth in a sound and lasting Apple and so hang it up or else dig a hole in the earth and lay good store of straw therein and then Grapes and then straw again and over them lay boards which must be so covered over with sand as that no air may enter and by this means as I am informed by a stranger they will last a long time vid. post 109. Good wines of English Grapes 40. I think it not impertinent here to set down a means how we may of our English Grapes purchase an excellent good Wine and the rather for that I finde the same to be both probable and possible both by some antiquities and experiences set down by Mr. Barnabie Googe in his Book of Husbandrie as also by that inevitable argument which he draweth from the same altitude of the Pole wherein we are and under which there be found beyond the seas most fruitful Vineyards and which

do yield both good and pleasant wines as about Backrach Colin Andernach and divers other places in Germany which have as he affirmeth in his Epistle to the Reader the self same latitude and disposition of the Heavens that we have whereby is sufficiently confuted that common though erroneous received opinion against our Climate that it should not be hot enough for that Plant nay he proveth further that the wideness to the South is not altogether the cause of good Wines as appeareth in that you have about Orleans great store of good and excellent Wine whereas if you go to Bruges two days journey farther to the South you shall finde a Wine not worth the drinking The like is of Paris and Barleduke as Mr. D. Dale did inform him the one being southward with naughty wines and the other a great way farther to the North with as good Wines as may be and thus far Mr. Googe Mr. Holinshed also in that his painful and commendable History of England doth constantly affirm That this Island hath been greatly replenished with Vineyards and that it is not to be doubted but that if the same Plants were by continuance of time and good ordering of them made familiar with our soil we should have both full and rich wines of our own growing And here I have just cause to accuse the extreme negligence and blockish ignorance of our people who do most unjustly lay their wrongful accusations upon the soil whereas the greatest if not the whole fault justly may be removed upon themselves For whereas neither in Pasture nor arable grounds they look for any great or continual encrease without all the due and necessary circumstances of Husbandry be performed to the same yet in Vines they onely expect a plentiful Harvest or else they condemn the soil although they bestow no other manuring proining or ordering of them but only cut and proin them in the 12 days and that very careless without any due regard or choice had of the branches which should be taken away close to the stock and which should be cut off between the third and fourth joynt and maintaining as well the waste and sucking roots as the principal and master roots which ought most chiefly to be cherished and preserved But because this matter requireth a large discourse and for that Mr. Barnaby Googe hath very sufficiently handled this subject already I will refer you to his labors by which you may learn both the election of your soil and the best scituation therof the planting of your Sets the proining both of the Stock and Roots the turning and translation of the ground the choice of the best and aptest dung for them with all other necessary circumstances requisite to the Plant unless peradventure there may be some few observations else to be learned either at the hands of an experienced French Gardner or that you shall think good to put in practice some one or other of these few conceited helps for the better forwarding of them in this our cold Climate onely I have thought it necessary for the avoiding of all French and Spanish objections to set down a new and yet a most assured and undoubted course how to furnish our selves with such store of good and perfect wines as that we shall not need either to be beholding to the Frenchmen our doubtful friends or to the Spaniards our assured enemies for this sweet and delicate kinde of liquor always provided that we use some careful means at the first to store our selves with the right and natural plants of those Vines whose wine we desire to have for the bringing over of which plants from beyond the Seas if we cannot otherwise furnish our selves of them within our own Continent we may use that pretty ingenious help for the carrying of our Sets being well covered with earth and conveyed into close vessels as Mr. Googe in his aforesaid Book hath in plain terms disclosed Then supposing all the skilful experience of France to be first shewed and performed in our English Vineyard and that yet notwithstanding there wanteth a sufficient and perfect digestion to bring the Grape to his full ripeness and maturity let us according to the French manner press out their sweet and pleasant juyce such as it is and by sufficient decoction and ebullition bring the one moity thereof to the fulness of a cute which being cold we may well mix with equal proportions of the crude and raw wine or so proportion the same as it may be most pleasing to our own mouths leaving them to the weather till they have inseperably united and incorporated themselves together and this is no strange practice but onely drawn from the Spaniard and the Greek who cutteth both his Malmseys and Muskadines and for the most part also his Canary Sack both to make them last the longer and also to be more fuller of wine Neither are we here to be discouraged at the charge of fire or the wasting of that faint flegmatique liquor that must of necessity be used in this work for that if every acre of ground will yield 700 gallons of wine as Cato Varro and Colnmella do testifie or as the Vineyards of Seneca did yeild with trade a Thousand gallons upon every acre I think we shall pay our selves with a higher interest then the Statute of 13 EliZ. will allow Yet because I will not altogether persevere in Vestigiis patrum I have thought good to set down another course out of mine own experience whereby if we shall be forced to use any outward helps in the default of our Soil or Climate we may yet by Art supply that unto our selves which nature hath denied to perform of her self Then having first expressed such liquors as our English Vines being well ordered will afford let us to every gallon thereof add one pound of the best Rasins of the Sun or Malaghie Rasins first washed in some change of waters or if you will aim at a Canarie Sack then chuse the best of the Xanthe Currens you can get being well cured and conditioned and take a like proportion of them to each gallon of your crude wine leave them in this infusion or imbibition until the liquor have extracted both the tincture and strength of the fruit then draw the wine from the fruit and when these two liquors have in time wrought themselves into one body they will become a most pleasant wine either resembling the Bastard the Muskadine or Canarie Sack either to be drunk alone or serving to compas or tast any other wine withall according to the proportion of the fruit which you infuse and according to the workmanship which you shall shew therein for herein I am assured that I have given light sufficient to an ingenious Artist both to check and mate all those brewing Copers and Vintners of our age who rise early and work late in their gross and jumbling slights and apparelling about their wines when as it were much