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A01017	Feudigraphia The synopsis or epitome of surueying methodized. Anatomizing the whole corps of the facultie; viz. The materiall, mathematicall, mechanicall and legall parts, intimating all the incidents to fees and possessions, and whatsoeuer may be comprized vnder their matter, forme, proprietie, and valuation. Very pertinent to be perused of all those, whom the right, reuenewe, estimation, farming, occupation, manurance, subduing, preparing and imploying of arable, medow, pasture, and all other plots doe concerne. And no lesse remarkable for all vnder-takers in the plantation of Ireland or Virginia ... Composed in a compendious digest by W. Folkingham. G.	Folkingham, W. (William)	1610 (1610)	STC 11123; ESTC S102453	47,378	98

couch good coggles al-alongst the Trenches a competent height and the soddes vpon them so the water will soake and draine thorow And this practise is most approouable and peculiar in mildring Clay which otherwise by shooting and melting downe into open Trenches would choake vp the water-passages For Coggles Flint Pibbles Shingles and other stones hindring the earing and oppressing the graine or grasse the conceit in Aiax of setting hable Vagrants to earne their Almes is not vnworthie imitation whether to the Lime-kill house high-way ponde foord or other vse For Vegetable impediments as Bushes Shrubs Bryers Furres Whynnes Broome c. they being once rooted vp by dogging or grubbing the Plot must be well plyed with the Plow and sewen some Crops successiuely after to which earing if well-soyling with good Marle and Stall-dung be added they will bee vtterly extinguished though they be rooted in a barren hot and drie soile their proper element but the cause being remooued vt supra the effects of producing these bad burthens must néeds surcease by consequence The infusion of Lupine flowers in Hemlocke iuyce caste vpon Shrubbe roots is said to kill them but this is too curious Linge Heath or Hather in salt sandie drie and barren soyles will die and decay if the distemper inherent be reformed by manurings with fatte marle rich and rotten moulde c. If they grow in grauelly colde Earth they require Stable dung but in grauelly colde Clay drenched with blacke water Lime and Chalke worke best effects by soaking vp the superfluous Water killing the Heath and comforting the Earth Brakes Brakin or Ferne though it cannot be cured with avulsion by reason of the ranke power of regerminating or increase retained in euerie particle of their roots which are so recurued as they are not possible to be plucked vp without some Remainders Yet being cut downe in their infancie and cast vpon their own roots they will suffocate and destroy themselues especially if they be therewithall Shéepe-folded and ground-fedde with ruminant Cattell Flags Sedge Rushes and other wéeds abounding in boggie and spungie grounds doe wither and waste away by the superfluous moisture which bréeds and féeds them being drawne forth by draynage but if the Plot be pestered with Alders you labour in vaine to euacuate the wet before the Trées or Bushes bee eradicated for their roots do naturally attract so much moisture for their nutriment that all the ground adiacent will be eft-soones choaked with a continuall cold wet But the former wéeds with Thistles Hemlocks and all sappie wéedes cut downe in Wood-seare and often mowne againe whilst they are tender their roots will putrifie and rotte ouer-burthened with affluent iuyce wanting due and woonted passage for growth and the Thistle stalke must not be permitted to rest gréene néere to the earth for by the euaporation thereof it will adder-like reuiue and roote againe Rich Grounds pestered with Burs Hemlocks Nettles ranke wéeds are commodiously disburthened by sowing them with Hempe Line Mustard-séede c. Rushes ranke sower grasse Prie and Quitch-grasse Mosse Wéedes c. In waterie colde Clay are destroyed with Marle Lime Chalke Vraic Soote Cole-dust Soape and other Ashes Shauings of Horne Burning of Beate Mosse generally is destroyed with Doues and Hens-dung and it putrifies being turned-in with the Plow But Bushes and Shrubs must bee also remooued for by their oft-droppings of wette retained after showers mists and deawes the swarth or turffe is so infrigidated and chilled that being continued for or conuerted to meadowe or grazing it eft-soones reassumes his mossie habite though the Plot bee not naturally prone and inclining thereto But a scurffie hungry Mosse and small Lung-wort dispersed ouer an hot drie and heartlesse ground is best destroyed with a slimie and oylie Marle Where Mosse Ant-hils and Mole-hils doe abound it is excellent husbandrie to eare it and sowe certaine Crops of Oates for they prepare all lay-grounds especially if they be sower and soaked with wet And for Ant-hils I haue obserued a rich increase of Oats in an indifferent soyle sowne in the very mould of the hils being many and great castabroad and well harrowed without plowing-vp the plain turffe the summer season proouing not too drie The quartering of the sweard of Ant-hils casting their ballas't playning their Plots for pasture are so frequent approoued as there néeds no demonstration Wilde Oates pestering and pilling of Tilthes are best destroyed by Summer fallowings And so much for Clearing of Grounds CHAP. X. THe Chearing of Grounds consists in the curing of their infirmities inherent naturally or by acquisition and in the refection and refreshing their weake and languishing vertues Clayes and all grounds distempered with colde and moisture are cured and cherished with stable-dung Doues-dung folding burning lime soote iron sinders of the furnace beat small and sowen thinne and with Coale Ferne and Soape-Ashes Barren hot sandy-soyles and hot drie Earth producing parched grasse and dwarffie Mosse doe craue stal-dung stréet-soyle pond-mudde rich mould fat marle Mawme or Riuer-slubbe scowrings of hedge-rowd Ditches slimie or moorish earth or Murgeon to helpe all defects And Virgil saith Arida tantum Ne saturare fimo pingui pudeat sola Nor is the shéepe-folding and foddering and the Compost of putrified Henbane Hemlockes leaues of Apple-trées willowes c. of lesse efficacie Brittle and fickle Mould of meane temperature twixt hot and cold is best soyled with well rotted horse-dung Spewing grounds ouer-soaked with sower moisture are well reléeued by being sowne with Oates for by their arifying and drying qualitie they sucke out and consume that noysome humour Boggie and spungie grounds are not a little setled fastened and firmed by frequent ouer-flowing them with Fords or Land-flouds affording a fatte and slimie substance or slubbe The stiffe colde Clay craues Ashes especially of roots stocked vp Chaulke Sea-sand Malt dust sowen thinne on the tilth lime incorporated with Stable-dung salt Crust-clung and Soale-bound soyles craue Caruage for prest and peculiar Gaole deliuerie this lightens and looseth the soyle and enlargeth and prepares way to the operation of the radicall humour and consequently serues in lieu of Compost Chapping grounds chinking or chauming with Cranies are cured and stiffe-cold spuing grounds are admirably relieued and fertilized by burning the stubble fegge or turffe whether that by closing vp the Chinks it auerts the extremities of wet winde frost and Sunne whereby the séede might be suffocated blasted starued or parched or the soyle distempered Or that it exhales and purges forth and euaporates al hurtfull and pernicious humours Or that it pinguifies the soyle and imparts to the séede some secret nutrimentiue power Or that by stirring vp the natiue heat of the Earth it reuiues the radical and vliginque humour and by opening and enlarging the obstructed passages and vaines giues entrance to the airie spirit and iuyce that quickens

and Balme with labour for Spikenarde with moistnesse and lightnesse for Lettice and Purslaine with spunginesse and cleannesse for Asparagus with closenesse for Basill The Coley-florey Rape-cole Muske-melon Cucumber Gourd Pumpion Thorne-Apple Apples of Loue Spinnage Arach Sun-flower c. must haue horsedung labour and a fat layer Léekes looke for a loose plaine and battle plot The meanly fat with dunging and digging for Cole-worts and Cabbage Sage is suited with cold clayie Earth The leane layer for Asarabacca Time Cammamile and dry for all stony for two last with rubbish for Capers and Orobus The stony grauell gratifies Fennell Rubbish with fine dry earth is a repast of best relish for the Rose if rough brickie and hot for Rue The rough dry and barren for Plowmans Spikenard Rough leane layers suite both Sauouries The Chalice or Chin-cough Mosse créeps along the barren dry grauelly ditch banckes The dry earth for Peionie with sand for Paunces sand and stones for ground-Pines Mullein Egrimony and if grauelly yellow for Neuewes Dry stony layers are destinate to white Saxifrage Bugle Lauender Rosemary and Iesamines rampe vp in a rotten earth mixt with rubbish or broken tiles and bricks The moist layer for Conuall-lillie Peruincle Bistorte Orpon Pimpernel and meanly fat for Mints and Calamint with compost for Chiruill and if olde for Margerom if battlef or Dragons and Liuerwort if stony for Harts-tongue if laboured for Peniroyall if light for Endiue and Succory if coole for Muncks Reubarb and Betony if stony and sandy for Parsly according to the Etymologie The Fenny waterish Soyle by lakes and Pooles fits Comfrey Tornesele Butter-Burre Marsh-Mallow Clownes Wound-worke The Boggie Sandy and Sunny plot suits with Sun-dewe Marsh Whorts Spungie lowe grounds are good for Hops so is a crumbling fenny layer vntrencht and wet for the Ozier-Hope which will parrallell the profit of the best Wheate in a rich soyle of equall extention The Knot-berries and Cloud-berries climbe and clad the tops of Moutanous fells Marigolds Clary Melilot Spoone-wort content neither for place clime or layer And all soyles are acceptable to Burrage Buglosse Violet The Apple askes a fat moist mould blacke and Ashcolored Peares Peaches Wardens a good clay Plumbes presse for a loose layer The Apricot a hot sand the Cherry a cooel and moist with some mixture of clay The moist plot fits the Ash Agnus Castus Tamariske Quince Seruice The Grauell if moist is best and sand not amisse for the Elme if ston for the Almond The Chaulke layer for Iuniper Yew though this brooke a light barren soyle Knée-holme thriues in a rough dry barren earth The stony solid Clay is for Fig-trées The blacke soft soyle for Chesnuts Philberds loue dankish places but Walnuts hate them and wish a hot soyle though meane in fatnes The Medlar and Corneill contend for a sand and fat crust The sandy nitrous soyle serues best for Dates Sandy light leane and brittle for Mirrh and Mirtle but these brooke no colde Regions Pome-granates presse for Compost and hot Countries The Bay and Mulbery beg a temperate aire and this earnes after fat manurings the other rests satisfied with a leane layer so that it be solid The mountanous hils delight the Almond Seruice Firre Larch The Quince ioyes in the Plaines so doth Béech though Birches kéepe the Hilles But the Indian Moly replenishes the lowly Vales. Diuers Plants couet to bath in Sunny rayes as the Figge Apricot Peach Plumbe Quince Cherry All whcih produce more delicate fruits being spread vpon a South wal to shield them from Northerne iniuries and reflect the Sunne-beames Nor doe many Hearbes with lesse pursuit of affection presse for the Sunnes enlifening comfort as the Peiony Goates-bearde Sothernewood Rue Fennel Lauender Isope Mints Saffron Carnations Pinkes Also Roses Hoppes Time Spikenerd Sage the great Sun flower and the Ozier But Turnesol with opposite eager eie al daylong gazes in Titans face nere daunted with his eye-dazing lustre according to the Poet Herba velut Clitie semper petit obuia solem contrary to the Pudifetan which droops by day c. In aprico quidē aëre multa faelicius viv unt quae densa et crassa consistunt substantia quoniam sole ad calorē lentum suum excitandum adducendum indigent But the shady reposure refreshes the Bay Tamariske Red Winter Cherrie Liuerworte Harts-tongue Betony Margerom Smallage Asarabacca Sowbread Auens Dragons Mandrake Peruincle Orpin Pimpernell Basill Strawberries Louage Spreading Time Garden Cresses Cúm multis alijs quorum tenuis subtilis facultas nimia aëris tenuitate dissipatur disperditur ideoque denso optimè gaudent aëre Yet Vegetables Sympathize with plots differing in temperature from their Natures The hot and dry subtile Cedar crownes the tops of the stony and snowie-cold Mountaines And hot and dry Hearbes are produced in cold moist soyles as Pennie-royall Margerom Betony Landcresses English Saxifrage Marsh-mallow hedge Hyssop The dry Adders-tongue Cowslip Prime-Rose and Teasill ioy in moist and dankish places The hot and dry Smallage Bitter-swéet Clownes Wound-worte delight in colde and moist ditches Nor can the grauelly colde of rilling fountaines extinguish the hot and dry temperatures of the water Cresse Becabunga Agnus Castus Butter-Burre Gaule The Bog-berry retaines his colde and dry astringence and Rosa-Solis his hot and dry causticke qualitie maulger the loose moistures of their layers Calamus Aromaticus hotte and dry craues a moarish couch The dry though cold and astringent Quéene of the Meddowes replenisheth the watry moist plaines The White Poppy colde and moist couets a hot and dry place The colde Mandrake and Sycomore couet hot Regions The Cucumber Gourd Melon cold by nature couet hot stable-dung So Apples of Loue of Aethiopia of Peru and Mad Apples relinquish not their cold and moist temperature notwithstanding their hot regions and Horse-dung Peculiar Composts are also requisite for refreshing of seuerall vegetables Rue and Sage doe battle with bucke or other Ashes Rosemary requires Shéepes-dung horne-shauings brickie rubble Tartaror Wine lées Liquerice loues Stall-dung and Saffron the same and Doues dung Fresh mould medled with horne-shauings is the best bed for the Vine Lime-stones fertilize both Vine and Oliues and the drooping Vine reuiues with the owne Ashes In planting of trées it is good to mixe Sand-stones and old shells with the mould and dung the reason is rendred by the Poet. Quaecunque premes virgulta per agros Sparge fimo pingui multa memor occule terra Aut lapidē bibulū aut squalenteis infode conchas Inter enim labentur aquae tenuisque subibit Halitus atque animos tollent sata Iamque reperti Qui saxo super atque ingentis pondere testae Vrgerent hoc effusos munimen ad imbreis Hoc vbi hiulca siti findit Canis aestifer arua Nitre and Oile doe make Beanes great tender and sooner sod Semina vidi equidem multos medicare serenteis Et nitro prius et nigra

chiefely in cold moist and wéely grounds The dry Marle sortes with moist Soyles and fatty Marle hits the dry and leane For Soyles of middle temperature it skils not whether you vse the White Gold-smithes Chaulke or the Columbine Marle But generally most Marles saith Plinie craue to follow the Plow that their medicinable vertues and substance may the sooner and more gréedily be attracted and receiued and a medly of dung were not amisse to correct the ouer-rough hardnesse of maine Marles The Vbians enrich most fertile grounds with any earth digged from thrée foote depth and lay it foote-thick for tenne yéeres At Chatmosse in Lancashire their vliginous and soaked Mosses doe recompence their meane ayre with vnctious Turffes Wood for woorke fewel and Candel and fat Marle to manure their Soyles And were we as iudicious in inuention or industrious in imitation of the diligent as we are supersticious in plodding in habituated accustomed courses of husbandry we would endeuour all idle pretenses abandoned to make seuerall Soyles serue interchangeably each to other in true validity of Compost by inter-soyling or seasoning the one with the other As Grauell and Chaulke Clay and Sand So light and sadde tough and friable hot and colde battle and barren c. Yet Plinie saies it is a méere folly and wast expence to lay fatte earth vpon leane and hungry or dry light and thirsty vpon ouer moist and fatte But land-flouds fatte Riuers and Gusts of water participating of a slimie and muddy substance induced and brought into Meddowes and pastures in the spring by draines dams inuersions from towne ditches sewers wayes stréetes Tilthes do very much comfort and reuiue them So Virgill Huc summis liquuntur rupibus amnes Faelicemque trahunt limum Also Et cum exustus ager morientibus aestuat herbis Ecce supercilio cliuosi tramitis vndam Elicet illa cadens raucum per leuia murmur Saxa ciet scatebrisque arentia temperat arua So the Egyptian Soyle though it bee a blacke and battle layer deriues the aboundant fruitfulnesse from the Riuer Nile whose inundation supplies the want of raine and féedes and fattes the Earth with the slime and mud left behind it But I shal be taxed for this tedious penning of those petty experciments and therefore I will omit to speake of the parti●ular bestowing of Salt Soote Ashes and Powder of Hornes Oistershels c. the infusion of Lupine flowers Wine Lées and the like and so much the rather because their cost or scarcitie derogates from their goodnes in efficacie This may therefore serue for chearing of grounds and consequently for enriching of the soyle CAP. XI THe Rectifying of Production is accomplished by bestowing the grounds to purposes suiting their appropriate Natures with due regard to the Sympathie and Antipathie betwéene Séedes and Soyles Plants and Plottes The great fast Yellow Sand is not vnfit for Graine The close Sand with some earthy mixture is good for Grazing The White and dry for Woodes and Wilde fruits But a loose and light Sant swords slow and thin yet with rest and lecking sommers it yéelds good Corne More particularly Wheat craues a fat Clay and dry to make it hard and compact and durty Séedage Barley loues a mellow Clay and a dustie March Rie suits with a Sandy soyle and drownes i' th hopper Beanes looke for a strong moist Clay if you expect stiffe ware and great Burthens Pease presse for a putryfied Clayie mould of meane strength Vetches are fruitfull in Creachie Countries Lentills like well of a leane and vntilde Sandy Soyle and a dry season Lupines loue dry Sand and Grauell and neede no Plow Oates doe well in a leane dry Clay though they péele a better and prepare a moist But for rough dry and barren soyles Buck-wheate is best to fill the measure and manure the fielde Spelt-corne in a fat moist layer degenerats from bad to better viz. in thrée yéeres space to Wheat Tare Cich and Mill loue moisture this with loosenesse that with fatnesse the first with leannesse Pannicke is pleased with a leane grauelly or stony Earth so it be light and moist Medica in putri solo hyeme decocto stercorato vno satu amplius trecentis annis durat Plinius Rice requires to be sowne in a fennye and waterish layer Saffron ioyes in a frée Chaulkie or red sandie soyle indifferently husbanded but manured with Neats and Doues dung Woad and Blaunch would haue a strong ground and this brookes well the roughnesse yea in the coldest clime but the other must haue it in good plight Commin couets a layer that is fat hot and putrified Hollie Worme-wood or Wormeséede loues both labour and a hot clime Caruwaies craue a good cleane manured ground Anni-séede must haue a blacke rich mellow-mould or a battle and well-dunged earth and those and other earely sowne séedes doe néede a thin strowing of Horse dung to rebate the force of frostie coldes Mustard multiplies well in a plot repleat with grauelly rubbish but it would be moist and battle and wel tilde also for the whitish séede Rapes require a broken-vp lay and a rich layer Hempe lookes for a fat moist laboured land plowed plaine and déepe Line loues a meane depth but a very fine light gentle and fat mould yet a leane layer refines it and Plinie commends Grauell Rootes require fat cleane loose and light grounds as Potatoes Earth-nuts Turneps and this in sandy layers growes more sound firme and delicious But clay produces sound dry delicate and large-Parseneps and enlarges the Parslies Roote Onyons Chiballs and Chiues thriue well in a red short murly and moistish earth Garlicke delights in a dry vndunged but laboured ground Sowbread likes both labour and Compost so doth Teasell with flattes two foot and an halfe déepe But large and long-rootes must also haue their layer déepe and well dunged in the bottome if you would enlarge their growth as for these Meateable Rootes Parsnep Carrot Skirrot Radish Goates-beard Caruwaies Mirrhis And the like for Medicinable Rootes as Endiue Succory Scammony Aristolachia But if you intent a plot for séedage let their beds bée incorporated in a medley of mould and dung Liquerice runnes downe with straight smooth rootes in a light loose battle and cleane laboured bed of 4. or 5. foote depth and bredth wel manured withstal-dung Columbine Marle Madder respects not so much the strength of the groūd so it be light moist sandy frée well-dunged and digged 6. foote déepe and broad Eringoes shoote forth long rootes to a large but shallow extent in a rough dry sandy and stony shoare But generally strong and long rootes neuer Sympathize with firme hard and solid soyles nor the fibrous and flender with light and loose layers Artichokes Beetes Beanes of Egypt prooue best in fat moist and laboured plots The fat Ground for Phaselles or Kidney Beanes and Carduus Benedictus with moderate warmth for Corianders Mandrake

Appropriate and Communicate Appropriate is that which is peculiar and proper to some certaine person place or other particular limitation and hath reference here to Earth and Water In the Earth the Qualitie and Composure thereof are to be considered In the first the Species and Habitude require to bee iudiciously obserued The Species of the Earth is either Vulgar or Pretious The Vulgar is either Simple as Clay Moulde Moore Grauell Sande Or Commixt as Creachie Claulkie Clayie Sandie Earth Pretious Earth is that which consists of a middle Nature twixt Stones and Mettals and all sorts thereof are Friable and conuertible to Powder And these are either Liquable or Not-Meltable The first are Iuices Concrete as Salt Alume Bitumen Vitrioll Salt Naturall is found either in the Earth or Water Of the first kind is Salt Armoniake Sal-gem Sal-niter and Indian Salt The other sort is digged vp in Fountaines Riuers Washes Salt-Meeres Sea-shoares Alume is either white or blacke The first and best is either Liquid or Compact Liquid Alume is the soft fat and limpid Roch or Red Alume The Compact is ether Sugar like or Shiuering The blacke is a kinde of Alume wherewith gold is purged and purified Bitumen is either hard as Asphaltus Pissasphaltus Rosin Or Liquid as Naphta Petroleum Amber Vitriol Coppras The Pretious Earths which are not Meltable nor indurated into Stones nor Mettals are Stibium Azure Auripigmentum or Arsenicke Sandaracha Calx Playster Chaulke Coale Canole Marle Oker Terra-sigillata or Lemnia Armenia Germanica c. Tuckers or Fullers Earth Argilla or clay for Pots Gallie and Thacke Tiles Bricke Water and Tabacco Pipes Purslaine And thus much for the Species CHAP. III. THe Habitude of the Earth dependes vpon the inherent disposition and temperature of the same in Heate Colde Moisture and Drinesse For although in regarde of the Colde and Drie substance and Nature whereof the Earth generally consists it may be saide to be of one temperature yet vppon occasion of the diuersitie of Situations Affinitie Intercourse and participation it hath with things of repugnant qualitie it purchaseth and acquireth contrarie qualities And therefore it would be also peruestigated whether it be light loose softe fatt oylie slipperie mouldring cleauing tough stiffe moorie leane barren fertile water-swallowed soale bound constipated or what other due or vndue poize nad proportion of temper predominates The Composure of the Earth comprises the Base and vpper Crust of the same The Base of the Earth offers due obseruation to peruestigate the Pregnance wherewith the Earth is imbowelled whether it bee Prime as in the precedent Species or Concrete as in Quarries and Mines In the first discouer what Ragge Freestone Milstone Grind-stone Syth-stone Emeril-stones Sanguinin-stones Hones Tutch Ieate Slude Slate What Marbles as Alablasters Ophites Porphyris c. Also what Gemmes as harde Adamants viz. the Cenchros Macedonicke Cypricke Siderite the flammid Carbuncle purple Amethist greene Emeraulde and Opall Paderas with their Trineuned luster the vyolet Hyacinth Skie-coloured Saphire Lustrie Diamonde shining Topaz starrie Calchedonie sparkling Rubie golden Chrysolite splendid Asterite various Achate horny Corneol greene Iasper pellucid Onyx cerule Tarqueis candid Crystall harde Blood-stone attracting Loade-stone white yellow and Falerne Agate For the second note what Mettals or Minerals are therein generated whether Pure as Golde Siluer or impure as Leade Tinne Brasse Iron Steele Lattin Copper Coperas Quicksiluer Stibium Antimonie Chrysocolla or Boras Minium or Vermilon naturall Sandaracha Verdigreece Salt Allome Brimstone Also Coale Canole Colours amongst the Minerall Oare of Gold and Siluer as Sil Azure The vpper Crust is the Soile or Seale of the Earth through which the irradiation of the Sun penetrating corroborates cheeres vp the Natiue heate with temperate calefaction which together with the infusion of moderate showers and moistures soaked from soilings enlifens the radicall humour and doth so foment and ferment the whole Masse of Moulde that Dame Vesta is inuited and extimulated to inuest her selfe in her richest Roabes of painted brauerie and to produce and power foorth her Cornu-copia of selected plenties The Crassitude of the Soale is diuersified in seuerall Plots and particular Modulets as from 3. foote to ½ foote more or lesse and is distinguishable from the Base by compacture by qualitie by colour by extention of the roots and fibers of grasse herbes plants And vpon this Crassitude of the Crust together with the Qualitie and Habitude of the same doth the production principally depend although the estate of the Base by reason of the imparture of the innate facultie be not vtterly excluded all importance of fertilitie and offers due obseruation what Trees Plants Shrubs Graine Grasse Herbes Weeds Mosse and other Vegitables are in each Plot voluntarily or plentifully produced And hence dimaines the Inuesture of the earth which giues consideration of the Grouth Repletion of productions both Vegetant and Animall In Grouth the thriuage verdure fruitage prematurance c. of particular Vegetables are regardable as the boaling spreading arming timbring tapering of trees braunching and bearing of Plants Bushing of Shrubs prolation and seedage of roots and herbs depth and colour of grasse c. For thereby sans further search the Species and Habitude of the ground wherein they grow are ingeniously intimated For if they prosper and thriue in burgening sappines flowers fruit and the like according to their seuerall kinds in extraordinarie good proportion it implies that either the ground is very fertile in generall or that they are implanted in Plots Sympathizing with their Natures As the high timbring Oake dilating mightie armes in large extent denotates a rich and battle soile where on the contrarie the knurly crooked and crabbed harde sparing starueling bewraies his barren and hungrie bedde The large and loose grained timber of the red Oake and frusshie Ash showes a light moist rich déepe soile the like doth the largenesse and waterishnesse of rootes and fruit But the firme and solid graine of the white Oake and tough Ash signifies a more fast and close ground ½ High grounds produce wood of a more beautifull-featherd and better graine than the low except in Apple trees and Peare trées Rest-harrowes growing rancke and rooting farre abroad intimate a fat fruitfull and long lasting soile The lowe stubbed Heath argues a barren grauellie cold ground the rancke and high showes it to be a more warme and tillable and commonly the white flowred Heath hath better layer than the purple Diuels-bit Eye-bright and yarrow by plentie in repletion and mean in proportion point foorth a Sandy earth of moderate heat and moisture and a sweet shallow and wel-swoorded Crust and thus are these herbes frequent in the Irish Soile Grounswell Thistles Nettles and other wéedes by their rankenesse show a rich tilth Blackish misliking and vnkinde herbes show a leane hungrie and bitter or sowre ground Burnt