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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
end_n	green_a	grow_v	leaf_n	1,241	5	9.4794	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39070	The Expert gardener, or, A treatise containing certaine necessary, secret, and ordinary knowledge in grafting and gardening with divers proper new plots for the garden, also sundry expert directions to know the time and season when to sow and replant all manner of seeds : with divers remedies to destroy snailes, canker-wormes, moths, garden-fleas, earth-wormes, moles, and other vermine / faithfully collected out of sundry Dutch and French authors.		1654 (1654)	Wing E3881; ESTC R40195	17,375	58

that will exercise and use the same and try divers kindes he may see and make many wonders What joy and fruit commeth of trees The first fruit THe first is that you plant divers many kinds for every housholder who hath care to his nourishment with all diligence causeth oftentimes such trees to be brought from forrein Countries The second The second is when the trees be planted and sat orderly and pleasantly they give no small pleasure to a man therefore every one should cut his trees orderly and he that cannot should procure other men to doe it which know how to doe it The third is of well smelling and spiced fruit Cleave a tree asunder or a branch of a fruitfull tree to the heart or pith and cut a piece out of it and put therein poundred spices or what spice soever you will or what colour you will desire and tye a barke hard about it and anoint it with lome and Ox dung and the fruit will gett both the savour and colour according to the spice you have put in it How sowre fruits be made sweet WHich tree beareth sowre fruites in the same pierce a hole a foot or somewhat lesse above the root and fill that with honey and stop the hole with a haw-thorne branch and the fruit will bee sweet How trees ought to be kept when they wax old WHen trees lose their strength and vertue for age and the branches break off for the weight of the fruit or when they wax barren for lack of moisture that they beare not fruit every year but scant every other or third yeare you must cut some of his heavy branches which he can little nourish which is done to the end he might keep some moistnesse to himselfe for his nourishment or else the moistnesse would goe all into his branches Whereby you may mark whether you must give them or take away from them branches according to their nourishment and as the earth where shee standeth can abide that is you must leave them so much as will nourish them and no more which if you doe not the trees will bring so little fruit that your labour will not be recompensed Which cutting of trees may be done from the beginning of November till to the end of March in warme countries But it is more naturall to be done from the time that the leaves fall till the time that they begin to grow green againe except where the frost is very great and sharp How trees must be kept from divers sicknesses and first how to keep them from the Canker WHen the Canker commeth in any tree he becommeth barren and dry for it mounteth from the stumps into the top and when it taketh a peare or apple tree the bark will be black and barren thereabouts which must be cut off with a knife to the fresh wood and then the place must be anointed with Oxe dung and tied with barke so that neither wind nor rain may hurt it Against worms which must be driven out of the tree IT happeneth oftentimes that the superfluities of moistnesse in the trees breaketh out like as sometimes to a man or beast between the flesh and skin and when that beginneth to rot wormes grow out of it which takes his strength away wherefore mark When the barke of a tree at any time swels cut it presently open that the poison may runne out and if you find already wormes in it draw them out with a little Iron hook How the wormes are to be killed if they be already grown into the tree IF you will kill the worms which grow in the tree take Pepper Lawrell and Incense and mingle all well together with good wine and pierce a hole into the tree downeward to the pith or heart of the tree and poure this mixture into it and stop it with a hawthorne and the worms will dye Otherwise Take afhes or dust and mingle it with sallet oyle anoint the trees therewith and the worms will dye Otherwise Take powdered Incense when you graffe and bring it between the barke of the stump which you will graffe and no wormes will eat the fruit When a tree in many places becommeth changeable because of wormes or superfluous humours Cleave the tree at some end from the top of the stump to the earth that all the foule liquors may come out and dry Also when a tree becomes sick because of evill humours or fault of ground so that 〈◊〉 becommeth worme-eaten or brings no fruit take the earth away from the root and put other sweeter in the place and pierce a great hole in the stump and put therein a pin of Oake and it helpeth A remedy against Caterpillers ALL kind of Caterpillers which eat the green and blossomes of the tree doe hurt them very much so that thereafter may come no fruit Therefore their eggs which lye hidden as it were in a cobwebbe must diligently be searched and burned from the boughes before they bring forth other Caterpillars which doe in December Ianuary and February Some were wont to break them off and tread them with their feet but therewith they be not wholly killed The fire consumeth all things and therefore it is best to burne them Against the Pismires or Ants when they will hurt the young trees CVT the leaves off which are eaten or poisoned of the Ants or Pismires and where there is any thinge made uncleane in the top of the tree of those little worms that rub inpieces with your hands that it may not stain the other leaves and that the young sprouts may grow up without any hinderance How to keep the Pismires from the trees FIrst make a juice of an herbe called Portabaca and mix it with vineger and sprinkle the stump therwith or anoint the stumpe with wine dregs Some take a little weak pitch but very thin that it may not hurt the tree Another Instruction Take a little bundle of cotton wooll flax or towe and lay it about the stump and tie likewise a bundle above about the stump and draw it out a little and the Pismires can do no hurt or put about the stump bird-lime In what time of the harvest the fruit must be gathered THe Fruits are not altogether at one time gathered for they are not ripe all at once as some pears which shew the ripenesse by the colour those should be gathered in Summer and if you let them stand too long they will not last Peares which are ripe in harvest those may be gathered in October when the weather is cleare and dry in harvest in the increase of the Moon Fruits may be gathered A short Instruction very profitable and necessary for all those that delight in Gardening to know the times and seasons when it is good to sow and replant all manner of seeds CAbbages must be sowne in February March or April at the waning of the Moon and replanted also in the decrease thereof Cabbage Lettuce in February March or