out all worms from spoyling your plants and therefore are much better then leaves Note that you must defend them in this manner in the day time until your plants have gotten leaves broad enough to cover their stalks and roots from all injury of weather and then may you leave them to the hot Sun all the day long If there be cause you must with rain water water them now and then but not wetting the leaves And if by any exceeding cold or moysture your plants doe not shoot forward sufficiently but seem to stand at a stay then take some blood and pidgeons dung tempered as before in Num. 34. apply the same to the roots of the young plant leaving some earth betwixt the roots and the same will make them to shoot out very speedily Remember to plant three plants together ther in each place being round and a little deep and of the bignesse of a round trencher Now when they have shot out all their joynts which you shall perceive when you see a knot at the very end of the shoot which is somewhat before the flowring time then some do use to cover every knot or joynt with a spade or shovel full of fine and rich earth and thereby each knot will root and put forth a new shoote quaere of the same course in Pompions or Cowcumbers by means whereof you shall have great increase of Mellons When your Mellons are as big as Tennis Balls then if you nip off at a joynt all the shoots that are beyond them the Mellons will grow exceeding great for then the sap doth not run any more at waste But some hold that you shall have greater Mellons though not so many if you suffer their shoots to run on without earthing the knots and then when when you see your Mellons of the bigness of Tennis balls as before then nip off at a joynt all the shoots that are beyond the Mellons but meddle not with the chief runner This of Mr. Nicholson Gardiner Lay your young Mellons upon Ridge-tiles to keep them frō the ground and for reflection 36. Make a high bank slopewise like a penthouse that openeth to the Sun and is by some means defended from all hurtfull winds plant your Strawberries therein and water them with the infusion of some apt dung now and then when the weather is dry 37. Bow down the branches of Roses having buds upon them into a vessel of wood pitched standing within the ground to keep them long upon the stalk or to prevent frosts if you see cause 38. Quaere What Pigeons dung and bloud applyed to the rootes of Roses or Carnations will do in the forwarding of their bearing 39. Plant Roses according to the manner set down for Strawberries before Num 36. to have them before all others 40. Make a Lay of sand and a lay of carot rootes cutting away the toppes close to the root with some of the small ends of the carots do this in October or Novemb in dry weather and about the last of December where there is no frost unpack them againe and if you will then keep them longer you must pare off the shooting at the upper end of the root and then lay them in sand This out of Gardiners Kitchin-Garden printed 1599. So of Parsneps and Turneps 41. Quaere If binding the bark somewhat hard with a packthred or rather with Brawn-bands will not keep roses and other flowers and fruits long from blowing by staying the sap from rising 42. To have rootes prosper and grow great you must trench your dung about the depth of your root which you would sow and if the root once get into the dung then it forketh and gathereth fibras whereas otherwise it will grow wholly into a long round and fair root of Mr. Andr. Hill 43. But if you desire to multiply your seed not respecting the rootes then mix your dung first well rotted with good mold and therein sow your seeds and they will encrase much so as for seeds the dung must lye in the top and for roots in the bottom By Mr. Andr. Hill 43. Gather your carot or parsnep seeds c. from the highest spiring brances and out of some friends Garden where you may be sure of the best sow these seeds about March or April and at drawing time choose the fairest roots of all other cut off their tops somewhat low and set them againe and then let them feed the next yeare then take the seedes from the highest toppes and sow them and so shall you have most faire and large roots This of Master Hunt the good horseman 44. Take off the tops as far as the green goeth viz. till you come to the wood from Carnations Gilliflowers c. slit them upward thorough the nethermost joynt thrusting between the joyns some fine searced earth made first into pap and with the same pap close the ends round about as big as a Walnut make holes in your pots and put in your tops so earthed these do seldome or never faile By Minisris Hill Also the old root is here preserved and you may carry these tops thus earthed 100 miles in a box Quaere if this secret will not also extend to stock Gilliflowers wall-Wall-flowers c. 45. Cut off a bought from any tree and two inches from the bottom take away the bark round about prick it into the ground and it will grow Quaere 46. In the end of February or March wet the ground first and about eight or nine of the clocke at night by candle-light gather up all the Wormes in dishes and so you may destroy them 47. A Rich mold for a Garden See among the Trees Numb 29. 48. Set or sow Kernells in November Nuts in February stones of fruit in March all in the increase of the Moon 49. Quaere Of graffing roses the splicing way and so of thyme rosemary hysope c. to be graffed in this manner either one upon another or graffing them upon the boughes or branches of trees if happily they will take 50. Whether the colour sent or tast may be altered in a Flower or Hearb by Art see the Title Trees and Plants numb 90. 51. Instead of privy hedges about a quarter I commend a Fence made with lath or sticks thinly placed and after graced with dwarf apple and plumme Trees spred abroad upon the stick 52. When you would have a strong and speedy White-thorne hedge about your garden set your plant high and sloping and not flat after the common manner Prick in the cuttings with the slope side downward that the rain may not get in between the Wood and the Bark Weed these hedges twice every yeare and as the sprowts doe grow of some length let them be platted or brayded upward from the ditch defend them from Cattell with a dry or dead hedge 53 Let Carnations or Gilliflowers
frosts and cold winds by streining of canvas water the pots with raine water put into other pannes wherein you may place these pots when you want raine 85. cut you Roses when they are ready to bud in an apt time of the Moon and they will begin to bud when other Roses have done bearing this is an excellent secret if frosts happen in budding time for so may you have store of Roses when others shall have few or none and may then be sold at a high rate This I proved the 18th of March 1606. being a few dayes after the change upon divers standards at Bednal-green being extreamely nipped with frosts in budding time and many of them did yeeld me great store of Roses when the rest of my Garden did in a manner fail 86. Cut your Rose-standards in the twelve dayes and not before so they will beare exceeding well Proved often by Garret the Apothecary and Pigot the Gardener 87. Towards Winter new earth your Gilliflowers Carnations and such other flowers as you would defend from the violence of Winter then whelme carnation pots that are bottomlesse upon them or having a great hole in the bottom and by this meanes neither the sharp windes nor the frost can easily pearce to their roots I hold this to be a good course for the defence of Artichokes in Winter 88. You may keep bunches of Grapes that are sound and well gathered in stone pots covering them carefully with sand TO choose ground for a Hop-Garden you must be sure it bee not a moorish or wet soyle though such perhaps may content a wild Hop but a dry ground if it be rich mellow and gentle is absolutely best Yet a light mold though never so rich is unapt for this purpose for the heaviest ground will bear the greatest weight of Hops Place your Garden so as the Sun may have free accesse to it either all day or warmest part of the day It must be guarded also from the wind either naturally defended by hills which is best or artificially by Trees but your Trees must stand aloofe lest the shadow of them reach the Hops or drop wet upon them which will destroy all About the end of March or beginning of April take your roots from some Garden where they are yearly cut and where the hills are raised high for there the roots will be greatest let each root be nine or ten inches long let there be three joynts in every root and of the last yeer's springing but be sure no wild hops cumber the ground which cannot be distinguished by the root but by the fruit or stalk Secrets in the ordering of Trees and Plants DOgs and cats applyed to the roots of trees before the sap rise have recovered many old decaying trees shred them 2. Divers waies for the enriching of a ground whereof to make an Orchard see among Flowers Numb. 1 2 3 4 5. 3. Gravelly ground is to be dunged with chalk and chalky with gravell for lack of dung T. T. 4. Strip away the leaves form the boxen slippe and winde not the stemme but set it whole without winding T. T. 5. Every slip of a bay tree will grow strip off the great leaves and set them in March when the sappe beginneth to rise 6. Every plant of an Eldern will grow T. T. 7. Sand enricheth a clay ground and clay a sandy ground 8. Every slip of the Poplar tree will grow 9. All Trees which you would have to grow thick at the top and to bush there cut or proin them in May for they spring more in June and July than all the yeare before or after 10. Plant Cherries in October November January and February T. T. 11. Plant Quince Trees in October November February and March T. T. 12. Set Hasells and Peare Trees in October November February and March T. T. 13. Set Apple cornells evermore the end that is next the root downward five fingers breadth between every cornell moysten them often with water by sprinkling and set the cornells in March T. T. 14. Set plumstones in November six or eight inches ches deep in the earth T. T. 15. Set the Pineapple cornel first steeped in water three dayes in October November February and March four inches deep 16. Set Peach-stones the sharp end downward in November four or five inches deep T. T. 17. Set springs and plants in harvest 18. If a Plant put forth many stalkes or branches from the root and you would have each branch to root then bear up the earth about them to some reasonable height either with tills or brickbats and in that earth every branch will root Quare if your branch will root at any part but in a joynt about the which also with a great aule you must pricke many holes even to the wood This is a necessary secret in all such plants as be straight and stiffe and not apt to bow or to be laid along within the earth By Mr. Pointer 19. How to recover an old decaying tree or Vine with bloud and pigeons dung see among the Flowers Numb. 34. 20. An Orchard of dwarf-trees that may be defended from all frosts see among the Flowers Numb. 32. 21. How to have early fruit see among the Flowers Numb. 33. 22. Plant Dwarse Trees and when the fruit is almost ripe bow down their branches with their fruit upon them into great earthen pots or pitched tubs either with bottomes or without bottomes the pots or tubs standing in the Earth then cover them with boards and earth from the sun and the sap of the Tree will keep them growing a long time as I suppose Prove this in greene fruit ripefruit and almost ripe fruit also in the blooming time if you fear frosts bow downe the branches with the blossoms as before to defend them in May from the injury of the weather and by this help you may happily have Fruit when others shall want 23. Put a Vine branch through a basket in December chuse such a one as is like to beare grapes fill the basket with earth and when the Grapes are ripe cut off the branch under the basket keep the basket abroad whilst the weather is warme and within doors in cold weather in a convenient place Prove this in plummes and cherries c. 24. Make divers holes with a croe of iron round about the bodies of your Trees and about Alhallontide pour Oxe bloud into the holes cover them with earth and this will make your trees to prosper well Probatum in Apricot trees By Mr. Andr. Hill If you do this at the Spring the smell of the bloud will offend you and therefore this practice is best for the Winter season 25. Plant the shoots of Sallow Willow Alder and of all swift growing trees being of seven yeares growth sloping off both the
pots for carnations As before Num. 29. Birds beasts pyramides c. to grow speedily * See after in Num. 84. Delicate frets or borders The wood may be laid in some oyle colour Earth strengthned To sow Anniseeds in England Artichocks from frosts OnioÌ„ seeds ordered Early and late Pescods Colianders to sow Sap of Briony to gather Roses to beare late Roses and carnation multiplyed Good seeds to know Seeds to sprowt speedily Single flowers doubled Tulipee double Miseltoe to finde Missel child Grapes kept long See after in Num. 82 Flowers in Trees Stock-gilliflowers to continue To remove rooted plants Roses to bear twice Hedge and Arbour when to cut Early Peascods Gilderland roses Seeds full plump Radish spinage Piony and Flowerdeluce Seeds from devouring Grapes kept long Prove this in cheries clusters of raisins figs Strawberries large After in Num. 85. Watering artificiall Arbour aloft Musk-Mellon to prosper Roses late Store of Roses Flowers from frost Artichocks from frost Grapes kept Dogs and carst to the roots Rich ground Ground enriched Box tree pranted Bayes to plant Eldern to plant Ground enriched Poplar to grow Trees to bush in the top Cherries when to plant Quinces when to plant Hasels and pear trees when to plant Apple cornels set Plum-stones set Pineapple corness set Peach stones set Springs plants set Branches to root in the ground O'd tree or vine recodered Orchard of dwarf trees Early fruit Fruit growing long Blossoms froÌ„ frests Grapes growing long upon the Vine Plums and Cherries growing long Trees to prosper Apricots to prosper Speedy woods Branches to root Trees froÌ„ Barking or canker Rich mold for Ochard or Garden Depth for trees Procining Of trees Trees baakbound helped Ill weather for Orchard works Oak when not to be felled Bignesse of crabstock Bignesse of Pear stock and white thou ne Bignesse of wild chery stocks White plumstocks When a stock is to be graffed White thorn no stock for peare or warden good for a medlar Suckers planted Nuts set 1 Close well in the bottom 2 Time of grasting 3 Instrument to graft with 4 Losengewise 5 What to do when the bud taketh 6 The lowest bud maintained 7 A cherry upon a plum tree 8 Grafting compasses 9 Galy preserved in the stock 10 Gelly in the bud preserved 11 Bud to take no ayre 12 How to slit the bark 13 What buds are best 14 How to slit the bark 1 Grasting tocl 2 Splicing way 3. Cleaving he body 4. Low grafting 5 On which side to graft 6 How to have large Cherries 7 What cions is best 8 Cions put in close 9 The cions made the stock Uponwhat stock to graft to Quinces upon a Medlar 11 Bark when to slit 12 Prepasing the cions 13 When to graft deep 14 Grasting at Christmas 15 Graft bound with mosse 16 Closing the cions 17 Peach upon a plum stock 18 One â—ree let into another 19 Length of a cions 20 Artifiâ—iall wax to close with 21 How to carry a cions far 22 Upon large fruited stocks 23 Many Apricot Trees of one 24 Observation in stock 25 Heading of stocks and grafting after 26 When to cut down a cions Upon what stock to graft 27 Stocks when to graft 28 Stockss to prosper 29 Late grafting yet with advantage 30 When to graft a stock 31 Stocks so great cherriet 32 Store of stocks 33 Ground for a Nursery A rule for transplanting of Trees 34 Stocks stopped 35 Cions to beare quickly 36 The times of severall grafting 37 Plants upon trees 38 Fruit without stones and hidden with leaves 39 Apricot grafted 40 A large Medlar 41 A pippin upon what stock Why trees transplanted doe alter Colour sent or taste altered Graft between bark and tree How to lop To have green trees in winter Orchard ground to order Vineyard to order Tree rooted higher See after in 106. Wreathed bodies of trees Fruit enlarged Barren trees to beare Transplanting old trees Old Vines recovered Bleeding of Vines stayed Early fruits Wet Orchard helped The Cions to prosper True proining Timber to grow of any fashion Apricots to beare Peare Warden Peach in what ground How to use the roots in settings Apricot in what ground Dwarf trees Gelderland Rose Dwarf trees How to lop Elms. Sappiness to avoid Young trees to grow Delicate Quinces Peach and Apricot stones to set Sap of tree to gather Fair Apricots and Cherries To stay blossoming Green trees in Autumne Quaere if the Moon be here to be respected Bodies of trees to enlarge Bark-bound To kill Mosse A Tree to root higher Sap choaked Barren trees to beare Causes of barrenness in trees App'es without wrinckles Respect between the stock and cions Cherries in clusters
but wrung out of the earth by the painful hand of experience and having also given you a touch of Nature whom no man as yet ever durst send naked into the world without her veile and expecting by your good entertainment of these some encouragement for higher and deeper discoveries hereafter I leave you to the God of Nature from whom all the true light of Nature proceedeth H. P. Knight An Alphabeticall Table to the Book A. ANnis seeds to grow in England page 78 Apple cornels to set 101 Apple agreeth not with a pear-stock 120. notè contra 121 Apples kept without wrinkles 164 Apricot multiplied 127 Apricot which is best 136 Apricots fair 157 Apricots to bear well 148 Apricot stones to set 155 Apricots in what ground 146 Apricots to prosper 105 Arbour when to cut 90 Arbour aloft 94 Artichocks from frost 39 41 79 97 B. Barking to help 159 Barking of trees 107 Barly growing without earth 47 Barrenness in trees upon what cause and how helped 163 Bayes to plant 36 100 Beasts of hearbs to grow speedily 76 Birds of hearbs to grow speedily 76 Blossoms from frost 104 to stay blossoming 157 Borders of hearbs delicate 77 Box tree to plant 100 Branches to root 70 102 105 Briony sap to gather 62 C. Candying of growing flowers 42 Canker avoided 107 Carnations growing in winter 50 96 Carnations old and revived 52 Carnations how to set 69 Carnations plants to carry far 69 Carnations seed to gather 72 Carnations of divers kinds upon one root 75 Carnation pots of a stately fashion 49 50 Carnations to multiply 83 Carnations early 65 Carots kept long 66 Carots to grow large 35 67 Carots when to sow 68 Cats at the roots of trees 99 Cherries when to plant 101 Cherries growing long upon the tree 105 Cherry stock wilde of what bignesse to graft on 110 Cherry upon a plum stock 113 Cherries fair 157 Cherry to grow large 119 Cherries in clusters 265 Chestnut tree to plant 111 Cions how to chuse 119 Cions made the stock 120 Cions how to carry far 126 Cions to prosper 146 Cions and stock sutable 164 Coleflower seed to gather and plant 73 Coleflower to bear late 74 Coliander to sow 81 Colour of a flower altred 71 138 Cowcumbers to multiply 63 Crabstock at what bignesse to be grafted 109 D. Dogs at the tree roots 99 Dung for pot-herbs 35 Dwarf-trees 150 Dwarf-trees in an orchard 52 Depth for trees 108 E. Earth barren strengthned 77 Earth see Ground Eldern to plant 36 100 Elme no stock to graft on 120 Elme to lop truly 152 Early fruit 56 64 103 145 F. Fearn to enrich ground 33 Flower de luce of seed 91 Flowers to grow gilded 41 Flowers candied as they grow 42 Flowers to keep backward 66 67 or forward 64 65 Flowers to grow upon trees 71 67 Flowers grafted one upon another 71 Flowers single made double 85 Flowers from frost 96 Fruit early See Early Frets of hearbs in a delicate manner 77 Fruit hanging long upon the tree 104 Frut without stones 136 Frut hiden with leaves 136 167 G. Garden enriched philosophically Garden ground rich 70 Garden within doors 44 Garlick to grow large 35 Grafting in the bud with all the rules 111 Grafting in the cions with all the rules 117 Grafting how often in the yeere 135 Grafting between the bark and tree 139 Grapes kept long 67 92 97 Grapes growing long upon the Vine 105 Ground to temper 33 Ground enriched with Fearn 33 Ground enriched with soot 33 Ground enriched with horn 34 Ground enriched 99 100 Gilding of leaves and flowers growing 41 H. Hasels when to plant 101 Hedge of fruit trees for a garden 72 Hedge when to cut 90 Hedge of white-thorn how to use 72 Hearbs with great heads 34 Hearbs to grow upon trees 71 Hearbs grafted one upon another 71 Hops how to order 98 Horn to enrich ground 34 I. Inoculation witb all the rules thereof 111 K. Kernels when to set 70 L. Leaves growing gilded 41 Leeks to grow great 36 Lettice to sow 37 Lettice seeds to gather 37 Lettice to grow great 37 Lopping of trees for beauty 108 139 Lopping of trees for bearing 147 M. Medlar upon a white thorne 110 Medlar stock for a Quince 137 Mellons to grow great 63 Mellons to order 57 Musk-mellon to prosper 94 Mellons to multiply 63 Misseltoe to find 86 Misselchild 86 Mosse to kill 160 Mold rich for Orchard or Garden 33 99 N. Nursery what ground it requireth 134 Nuts when to set 70 Nuts set 111 O. Oake when not to be felled 109 Oake how to lop 152 Onions and Baysalt sowed together 34 Onions how to order 79 Orchard of dwarf-trees 52 103 Orchard ground how to keep 140 Orchard wet how to help 146 Orchard barren to bear 99 P. Parsnips kept long 66 Parsnips when to sow 68 Parsnips to grow large 35 68 Peaches in what ground 149 Peach stones to plant 102 155 Peach upon a plum-stock 123 Peare in what ground 149 Peare stocks of what bignesse to be grafted on 110 Peare not to be grafted upon a white thorn ibid. Pear tree when to plant 101 Pescods early and late 80 90 Pineapple when to set 102 Pinks of Carnations and in carnation time 72 Piony of the seeds 91 Pippen upon what stocks 137 Pyramides of hearbs to grow speedily 76 Plants when to set 102 Plants rooted how to remove without harm 88 Plums growing long upon the trees 105 Plum-stocks white of what bignesse to graft on 110 Plum agreeth not with a Cherry stock 113 Plum-stones when to set 101 Pompions to grow great 38 Pompions to multiplie 63 Poplar to grow 100 Pot-hearbs what dung they require 35 Pots for Carnations of a stately fashion 49 75 Proining of trees for beauty 108 Proyning of trees for bearing 147 Purslane seed to gather 37 Q. Quinces when to plant 101 Quince grafted upon Medlar 121 Quinces to grow delicate 155 R Radish 91 Radish to grow large 35 Roots when in their best strength 40 Roots to grow long and great 67 Roots old removed 88 Roots of trees how to be ordered in setting 149 Roses grafted upon what stocks 38 Rose musk to bear late 40 Roses growing in winter 50 Roses to bear late 65 82 Roses to defend from frost 65 Roses early 65 Roses late 66 82 95 Roses to multiply 83 Rose to bear twice in one yeer 89 Rose of Gelderland how to plant 90 S. Salt sowed with Onions 34 Sap in trees checked 162 Sappinesse in wood avoided 153 Sap of hearbs how to gather 82 Sap of trees how to gather 156 Seeds how old they may be 34 Seeds how to choose 34 84 Seeds to multiply 67 Seeds to sprout speedily 84 Seeds to grow full and plump 91 Seeds kept from Fowle 91 Sent of flower altered 71. 138 Snayles to kill 35 Soot to enrich ground 33 Spring when to set 102 Stock gilliflower made double 85 Stock and cions sutable 164 Stock gilliflowers how to plant 69 Stock
proined them according to the usuall all manner in March or Aprill and also the sap will then come purling out and soone cover the Wood whereby you shall avoid those blemishes in your trees which others procure by proining them in the Winter By Master Andr. Hill 100. Quaere what hearbs flowers or branches of trees may be grafted upon the bay or holly tree or any such tree as keepeth green to Winter to make them also carry green leave in Winter 101. Pare your ground with a shod shovell so often as any grasse or weedes begin to put forth both in your nursery and orchard and so shall you both keepe the ground mellow and the raine shall have better passage unto the roots of your trees By Masters Pointer who keepeth Coines in his Orchard onely to keepe downe the grasse low because otherwise it would be very chargeable Also in Vineyards the use is to turne up the grounds with a shallow Plough as often as any grasse offereth to spring but I thinke that prevention of graffe both in Orchard and Vineyard is much better if in were not too costly 102. Upon the Epiphany by reason of a great storme an Apple Tree that had not beene very fruitfull before was almost blowne up by the roots at Hackney and after with Ropes it was drawne upright and the what mounted and the Root covered with earth and that Tree the next Sommer bare an exceeding great burden of fruit 103. When your Apple Cornells are of two yeares growth then set a long straight stick by each of them winding the young stocke about the stick by little and little as it groweth and fastning it with bands under the stick and so it will grow in a wreathed form 104. Quaere If nipping off the new and tender tops about blossoming time will not make sommer fruit trees to blossome speedily or to enlarge the fruit 105. If an old Tree that is spent and hath done bearing be underpropped so as the body sink not and that the earth be after taken away from under all the roots and instead thereof good rich mold be conveyed into the void places that so an old tree will florish againe and beare fruit See before in Numb. 103. 106. The Lord Zouch in Winter in the yeare 1597 and Master And. Hill thinketh moist weather is best that the earth cleaving to the roots may be also removed with them the earth being fast bound with Fearn branches to the roots removed diverse apple trees damson trees c. being of thirty or forty years growth at Hackney the earth was digged in a good large compasse from the roots the roots little hurt holes were prepared for each tree before hand enriched with fresh and good earth and branches and tops taken off almost close to the trunk and they were planted again in the same hower wherein they were removed and the roots placed towards the same point of the compasse as they first grew He had a few damsons the first year and all put forth leaves at Michaelmas after anno 1598. 107. Blood laid at the roots of old Vines hath been commended for an excellent substance to harten them unto Mr. Andrew Hill 108. If you cut any Vines when the sap is up presently cover the place with good store of Turpentine and it will stay bleeding Proved by Mr. Melinus Some commend the straight binding of a packthred about the bark thereof some sear with a hot iron and drop hard wax presently upon it 109. By the opinion of some men if outlandish fruit Trees be planted in England they do strive to put forth blossoms and to bring fruit at the same time with us as they did in their naturall places unlesse the extremity of cold doe nippe or hinder them And this seemeth to them to be the reason why the Black thorne at Glassenbury Abbey did use to blossome at Christmas because happily the plant was brought from such a climat as where it did blossome at the same time of the year 110. If your Trees stand in wet grounds some doe advise to lay lime on the face of the ground to help the bearing of the trees 111. If whilst you maintaine some suckers to your stock because the stock is not yet so big as your arme your Cions doth not prosper to your mind then nip off the buds that grow upon the suckers now and then in the midst till your cions thrive according to your owne desire 112. In proining of your Fruit Trees or of any other shrub or plant bearing fruit you must alwayes have respect whether it beare his Fruit upon the first second or third yeares sprowt for you must never cut away all the bearing sprowts if you meane to have any Fruit As in Pippins the third yeares sprowt doth onely beare Fruit and in some other Fruit Trees onely the second yeares sprowts in Gooseberries the last years sprouts bear most by Mr. Andr. Hill 113. When your Trees are young you may bow them to what compass you will by binding them down with packthread to any circular form or other shape that pleaseth one best And by this means your Timber will growe fit for Ships Wheels c. whereby great waste of Timber in time would be avoided 114. Mix Cow-dung and Horse-dung well rotted with fine earth and Claret wine Lees of each a like quantity baring the roots of your Trees in Jan. February and March and then apply of this mixture to the roots of your Apricot Trees and so cover them with common earth by this means such Apricot Trees as never bare before have brought forth great store of fruit Prove this in other Trees This of Mr. Andr. Hill 115. Pears Wardens and Peaches delight in Clay grounds 116. When you plant any Tree presse not down the Roots together with laying earth confusedly upon them but extend every branch by it self and cover it loosly with earth according to that form wherein it did first growe By Mr. Colborn 117. Apricots like well in sandy ground 118. Some hold opinion that if one set the slips of an Apple Tree and so of divers other Trees that these will prove Dwarfe Trees And so of the Tree that beareth a white flower as big as a Rose called the Gelderland rose 119. From May to the end of July you may take off the bark from any bough of a Tree round about the bough foure inches deep if the bough be as large as a mans wrist or else a lesse depth will serve If the bough be lesse in compasse cover the bare place and somwhat above and below with loame well tempered with Horse dung binding downe the loame with hay and brawn ban ds upon the hay and so let it rest till about Alhallontide And then within two or three dayes of the first New Moon cut off the bough in the bare place