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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26235	A treatise of fruit trees shewing the manner of planting, grafting, pruning, and ordering of them in all respects according to rules of experience gathered in the space of thirty seven years : whereunto is annexed observations upon Sr. Fran. Bacons Natural history, as it concerns fruit-trees, fruits and flowers : also, directions for planting of wood for building, fuel, and other uses, whereby the value of lands may be much improved in a short time with small cost and little labour / by Ra. Austen.	Austen, Ralph, d. 1676.	1665 (1665)	Wing A4240; ESTC R29129	167,009	399

see by experience they will grow and thrive upon almost any Land but a loose warm soyle is accounted best if it be shelving upon the Sun upon such a ground they will thrive much faster and the profits will be greater than on cold clay moist ground Howsoever plant any ground that may be planted the profits will be great and many to the present Age and to Posterity And now I return again into the Orchard and Garden and shall also speak somewhat further concerning Vine-yards which some are very confident may be made here in England with very good success and advantage IT is Recorded that many Vineyards have been formerly in England and that Tithes have been paid in some part of Gloucester-shire of Wine made of the Vineyards there See Mr. Hartlibs Legacy of Husbandry pag. 23 and 24. And that a Gentleman in the Wild of Kent maketh six or eight Hogsheds yearly of his own Vines that he hath one old Vine upon the sides and tiles of his House that yieldeth nigh an Hogshed of Wine in a year p. 26. Camdens Testimony of Vineyards in England Camden in his Britannia pag. 357. says That William of Malmesbery writes That there is no Country in all England so thick set with Vineyards as Gloucester-shire nor so plentiful in increase the Wines thereof made affect not their mouths that drink them with any unpleasant tartness as being little inferiour in sweetness and odor to the French Wines And Mr. Camden adds That this is the Reason why many places in that Countrey and elsewhere in England are called Vineyards And that it may seem to be the sloathfulness of the People rather then any indisposition of the Aire that this Nation yieldeth not Wine at this day Mr. Parkinsons Iudgement of Vineyards in England Howsoever Mr. Parkinson in his Paradisus Terrestris pag. 553. tells us he thinks it would be a fruitless labour to strive in these dayes to make a good Vineyard in England for that years are not now so hot as formerly And he brings experience into witness the thing That divers both Nobles and Gentlemen of late times have endeavoured to plant Vineyards and brought over Frenchmen to do it but could never make any Wine that was worth the drinking being so small and heartless that they soon gave over their practise And also One says in Camdens Brit. pag. 269. That we have had Vines in Britan since Probus the Emperours time rather for shade than fruit Now men have heard the Judgement of Writers and what is Recorded concerning Vineyards in England they may do as they see cause A Vineyard must have all advantages with us It is very probable that if some special Vines that ripens their Fruits early as some do with us were planted with all the advantages that may be as upon the side of an hill upon the South-East Sun upon on a hot sandy soyle the Vines kept short and low within a yard of the ground and the ground kept bare without weeds or grass it 's likely I say thus planted and ordered they would afford good Wines even with us in England Or if Vines some early kinds be planted upon the South-sides of houses or Morning Sun and spread upon the Tiles no doubt the Grapes will make good Wine but I verily believe that Vines upon level ground without the advantages before mentioned will not bring forth Grapes to perfection it 's likely such would make very good Vineger or Verjuice better then that of Crabs An experienced way for good Wines But seeing we have such a known Experienced way to make good wine in England of Pearmains Pippins Moyles Redstreaks and other Fruits we need care the less for Wine of Grapes the best that is said of the Wine that hath been made in England of Grapes is That is hath been little inferior in sweetness and odor to the French Wines but the commendation of Wine made of the best Apples is far higher viz. That it hath been esteemed by good pallates not inferior to the best Wine of Grapes ●all things considered yea hath been preferred before it See pag. 145. Hereafter follow divers Experiments and Observations promiscuously without dependance one upon another IT is good to Plant some Aprecot-trees Peach-trees Fig-trees and other kinds of Trees which we use to Plant against a wall upon Standards to grow somewhat low as Dwarf-trees if it may be upon the side of a South-hill Experience shews the Fruit will come to ripeness but be somewhat later and smaller however this saves abundance of labour and time and some cost in pruning and nailing the branches to the wall yearly The Fig-tree bears an excellent cordial fruit it doth sensibly refresh the Spirits after eating but eat moderately lest they make the blood to abound overmuch If the ground be kept bare with diging or paring often the fruit will be the fairer and sooner ripe the reflection of the Sun from the bare earth will be almost as strong as from a wall especially if beaten down hard after digging Moist waterish grounds are bad for Fruit-trees they chill the Roots and cause Moss upon the Trees and make the Fruits more cold and on a worse taste then the same kinds on drier grounds but if Trees must be planted on such grounds lay them as dry as may be by ditches and trenches in several places It will advantage Trees in bearing old Trees especially to put Pigeons dung Lees of Wine with some Ashes Brimstone or the like to kill worms about the Roots or to put some blood or pieces of flesh to their Roots also state Urin mixed is very good for them but yet beware of using too great a quantity of these hot things at one time some Trees have been quite spoiled with blood and such like in not observing therein a meet quantity and season Wine and hot waters refresh our bodies used moderately but otherwise are hurtful a man may be killed with Cordials if immoderately taken so of all other Creatures Also to water Trees in blossoming and knitting time makes them hold their fruit better If Trees thrive not nor bear well one cause among many others and not so much observed may be for that some hurtful creatures may breed and lie about their Roots as Pismires Toads Efts and such like One digging about the Roots of a Tree that did not thrive well found a very great multitude of Efts a great neast of them lying at the Roots which undoubtedly was the cause of the poorness of the Tree so of other such like creatures therefore once in 3 or 4 years it 's good to dig and turn up the earth about the Roots especially of old Trees and withal to put in some dung throughly rotten or fresh earth Fruit-trees planted in the fields make Grass to spring earlier in the year by reason they cause warmth and in a hot sommer they shade the grass when it is burnt up in some