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A75801	A treatise of fruit-trees shewing the manner of grafting, setting, pruning, and ordering of them in all respects: according to divers new and easy rules of experience; gathered in ye space of twenty yeares. Whereby the value of lands may be much improued, in a shorttime [sic], by small cost, and little labour. Also discovering some dangerous errors, both in ye theory and practise of ye art of planting fruit-trees. With the alimentall and physicall vse of fruits. Togeather with the spirituall vse of an orchard: held-forth [sic] in divers similitudes betweene naturall & spirituall fruit-trees: according to Scripture & experie[n]ce. By Ra: Austen. Practiser in ye art of planting	Austen, Ralph, d. 1676.; Goddard, John, fl. 1645-1671,	1653 (1653)	Wing A4238; Thomason E701_5; Thomason E701_6; ESTC R12161	90,355	121

Hist Life and Death pag. 207 208. And that Leaves of trees falling towards the middle of Autumne yeild a good refreshing to the spirits But the most pleasant and wholsome Odors are from the blossomes of all the Fruit-trees which having in them a condensing and cooling property are therefore not simply Healthfull but are accompted Cordiall chearing and refreshing the Heart and vitall spirits Now the spirits as this Author observes are the Master-workemen in the body Hist Life and Death pag. 183. 410. and as the uppermost Wheele which turneth about the other wheeles in the body and therefore whatsoever is Healthfull and refreshing to the spirits works powerfully good effects in the body And that speedily and suddenly as the Author saies Vapors and Affections worke compendiously upon the spirits Hist Life and Death pag. 236. Of the Healthfullnesse of Odors see more at Large in the title Pleasure of the sense of smell in a Garden Fourthly Health is preserved by wholsome meats and drinks all the yeare from the Garden of Fruit-trees The spirits of the body in sommer stand in need of cooling condensing what meats and drinks more proper for that purpose then dishes and drinks of the fruits of an Orchard They are both Alimentall and Physicall they cure diseases and preserve health discharging the body of the beginnings and seeds of many diseases 2. In respect of long life Secondly A Garden of Fruit-trees is profitable to the body in respect of Long life How much have men valued long life in all ages of the world what strange courses have some taken to extend their life to a great length some have liv'd in Caves and Rocks and sequestred themselves from society with men and betaken themselves to a strict Monasticall course that they might stretch out their life and be said to live Yea amongst Christians who though they desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ Yet in some respects long life is to be accompted a blessing and is set before us as an encouragement to obedience as we see Deut. 32.47 The feare of the Lord is your life Prov. 10.27 Prov 9 11 Ps 91 16. and through this yee shall prolong your daies And Prov. 3.1.2 My sonne keep my Commandements for length of daies and long life shall they adde to thee the like in many other places Now I say An Orchard or Garden of Fruit-trees is profitable to the body for Long life and that in severall respects All these foure last mentioned meanes for Health the same likewise conduce and are profitable to long life wherein lies another part of their excellency and worth for as the Lord Bacon observes Hist L D. pag. 179. 180. some things are profitable for an healthfull life but are not good for long life but all these conduce as well to long life as to health so that Moderate exercise 2 fresh Ayres 3 pleasant Odors 4. Wholsome meats and drinks which are all had in an Orchard or Garden of Fruit-trees are also all profitable to long life Hist L. D. pag. 183. 414. The foresaid Author saies The spirits are the master workmen of all the effects in the body and therefore in the intention of long life ought to be first placed So then whatsoever worketh upon the spirits for their refreshing and vigor is profitable to long life The operation upon the spirits and their waxing fresh and vigorous is the most ready and compendious way to Long life Hist L.D. pag. 235. Now an Orchard or Garden of Fruit-trees and imployments therein worke upon the spirits for their refreshing two waies First by the Organs of the Body Secondly by the Affections of the Minde Touching the first The operation upon the spirits through the Organs of the body see at large in the pleasure of the five senses Concerning the operation upon the spirits by the Affections of the minde I shall here speake and mention only three Affections of the minde which worke powerfully upon the spirits conducing to long life One Affection of the Minde which works effectually upon the spirits for Long life is Hope 1. Affection Hope Hist L.D. pag. 224. The Lord Bacon saies Hope is most beneficiall of all the Affections and doth much to the Prolongation of life if it be not too often frustrated but entertaineth the fancy with an expectation of good therefore saith he they which fix and propound to themselves something as the marke and scope of their life and continually and by degrees goe forward in the same are for the most part long lived Hope is as a Leafe-joy which may be beaten out to a great extension like gold Now the diligent Husbandman in this art of planting Fruit-trees has good and sure grounds for Hope not only from many Promises in the word but likewise subordinate grounds from Reason and Experience This Hope is sowen with the seeds of his Fruits and springs up with them and so from yeare to yeare his Hope growes and increaseth with his Fruit-trees He saies before him and considers what great Profits and Pleasures are comming towards him he sees by experience what a plentifull harvest of Profits and Pleasures others receave from Orchards and Gardens of Fruit-trees which are as fuell or food to nourish and feed Hope and hold it in strength and vigor and when he begins to receive Profits and Pleasures from his Fruit-trees these refresh Hope and make it grow from strength to strength with his Fruit-trees and thus from yeare to yeare Hope is continued and increased and all this while the spirits are refreshed as Hope is refreshed and are kept thereby vigorous and strong and in a pleased temper and condition and being the Master-workmen in the body or first wheele as the Author saies they worke upon all the parts of the body for Prolongation of life And so much concerning the operation upon the spirits by Hope 2. Affection Ioy. Another Affection of the minde which in this imployment works upon the spirits for long-life is Joy The foresaid Author saies That this Affection of Ioy works so powerfully on the spirits Hist L. D. pag. 221. that some great Ioyes comming suddenly unexpectedly doe overmuch attenuate and diffuse the spirits But now ther 's no danger of the suddennesse of Ioy in these things whereby to raise and overmuch diffuse the spirits for such things as cause Ioy in the imployment of planting Fruit trees are expected and waited for and Hope prepares the way for Ioy. Ioy is a cleare shining beautifull affection and rises some degrees higher then Hope Ioy in the use of earthly things is lawfull in its season ther 's a time to rejoyce as well as a time to mourne And there is a lawfull joy in harvest in gathering in the fruits of the Earth Esay 9.3 It is commanded and allowed of God Deut. 12.16 Thou shalt rejoyce before the Lord thy God in all that thou

Vertue that of the chiefest Nature that secular Imployments have in them So then observe some Examples recorded by ancient Authors in this imployment of planting Fruit-trees Pog. Florent Plures excellentis doctrinae viri Philosophandi studio c. Many famous and learned men saith he studious in Philosophy have delighted in this course of life and found therein abundance of pleasure and contentment Joan. Bap. Port. Si dignitas Agriculturae accedit ex iis qui eam tractaverint Regalis Ars dignissima erit If the dignity and esteeme of this Art may be drawne from those who have been conversant in it then it is a Kingly Art and chiefest of all others Reges Imperatores summosque Magistratus c. Cyrus King of Persia Philometrus King of Asia Heronus King of Asia Archelaus King of Asia Attalus King of Asia Evax and Avicen Kings of Arabia Solomon King of Israel Telaphanus Antonius Pius Elizeus Numa Sportanus Alcinous Mithridates the great Alexander the great Dioclesian Emperour of Rome And many others Kings Princes Roman Emperours and the highest powers on earth have not disdained to performe the works of an Orchard with their own hands and taken delight therein Mascall saies Many great Lords and Noble personages have left their Theaters and goodly exercises and have given themselves to Planting and Grafting and have accounted nothing of higher commendation The second Humane Argument 2. Humane Argument of the dignity value of Fruit-trees and the art of planting is from the praises of ancient and late writers and the suffrage or generall consent of all people Works imployments that have the praise but of some persons only we cannot conclude the worth and dignity thereof from such praises because selfe and sinister ends may sway in the minds of such but those imployments that have the Praise of all and where there is a concurrence and consent of minds in all people in the praise thereof of the Good as wel as the bad of the Learned as well as the unlearned of the Wise as well as the unwise these probably are good and vertuous Now this art and imployment of planting Fruit-trees hath the joynt and unanimous consent not only of the greatest persons of the world but likewise of all persons in the world ther 's none hath ill will towards it none hath any thing to say against it but all without ecception give it their good word and speake in the praise of it If men doe but speake of it they 'l commend it and say it s a goodly imployment it s both a pleasant and profitable worke its good for a Commonwealth it enriches whole Countries to this purpose men usually speake of it what ancient and late writers have said in the praise of it may be seen pag. 8 9 10 c. And for the second Humane Argument thus much The third Humane Argument 3. Humane Argument of the dignity and value of Fruit trees and the art of planting is Argumentum ab utili from the Profits that are receav'd thereby Let us see then what Profits may be had from an Orchard or Garden of Fruit-trees Profits arise from an Orchard many waies 1. In the Family one way is to a mans Estate and that in two respects first in respect of house-keeping and provision for his family all the year e Secondly in respect of sale Such as have good Orchards knowe by experience that they are very profitable for meat and drink all the yeare-long many good dishes they make of Fruits and many wholsome and pleasant drinks Syder Perry Cherry-Wines c. which are not barely nourishing but have other speciall properties they moderately coole and refresh the spirits in heat of Sommer and besides they keep the body from grosse and superfluous humours and carry downe the seeds of diseases which else would lodge and grow in the body and at length spring out to the preiudice of health Of the healthfulnesse of these Liquors See the use of Fruits 2. For Sale Secondly Fruit-trees are profitable to the Husbandman in respect of sale of the fruits when a man has more then he can spend in his house especially to such as live neare some great Towne or Citty where they have vent at pleasure The Poet saw the Profits of an Orchard when he said Non illi deerat quod pauperis exigit usus Interdum locuples à paupere multa petebat The Orchard doth with fruit the poore supply With which he doth the wealthie gratify The Profits of an Orchard once come to good perfection doth exceed the profits of Corne upon like quantity of ground many times over As hath been computed and set down by those that I suppose well knew the value of both And touching Profits to the Estate thus much 2. Profitable to the body Secondly An Orchard or Garden of Fruit-trees and Imployments about the same is profitable to the body first in respect of health secondly in respect of long life 1. In respect of Health What is a greater earthly blessing then perfect health of body some have said valetudo est summum bonum Health is the chiefest earthly good thing what will not men doe for health they will set body and mind all on work for health they will part with friends house and lands silver and gold and all for health Now health is preserved first by moderate and seasonable exercise in the Orchard the labour that preserves health must not be too violent Hist Life and death p. 412. 269. it must be but ad ruborem non adsudorem as some advise to bring the body to a temperate and gentle heat not to immoderate sweating The Lord Bacon adviseth to exercise causing rather perspiration then sweating and saies further that an idle life doth manifestly make the flesh soft and dissipable but robust exercise so it be without overmuch sweating and wearinesse maketh it hard and compact which advanceth health Secondly Health is preserved by fresh wholsome Ayres which in heat of sommer is found in Arbors Seats and Walks in the garden of Fruit-trees The aforesaid Author tells us the ayre in sommer is predatory and hurtfull through the heat of the sun and therefore ought as much as may be to be excluded from the body Now there is no fresh wholsome ayres and coole shades to be found any where in sommer season better then these in the Orchard or garden of Fruit-trees so the Poet Opaca prebent arbores umbracula Prohibentque densis fervidum solem comis Green Canopies the shady trees us lend Gainst schorching sun boughs thick whilst they extend Thirdly Health is preserv'd by pleasant and wholsome Odors and perfumes found in the Garden of Fruit-trees all the spring and sommer by digging the Earth and from the Leaves and blossomes of Trees Lo Ba tells us the vapors of fresh earth by digging condense and refresh the spirits