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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	fruit_n	good_a	tree_n	4,708	5	8.6623	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45749	Cornu copia, a miscellanium of lucriferous and most fructiferous experiments, observations and discoveries immethodically distributed to be really demonstrated and communicated in all sincerity.	Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.	1652 (1652)	Wing H982; ESTC R9875	12,391	18

ground not hinted before Item A ground in Kent of 30 Acres did lately produce in one yeare 1000lib benefit without tillage To make Grapes grow upon Oaks more plentifully as pleasantly and as full of juice as any other Grapes whatsoever Item To make Grapes ripe as soon as Cheries Item Perfect directions for a vineyard there having been many planted here in England till most abusively put down for the benefit of Custome the increase of a vineyard being by computation four tuns per Acre an old vine lately in Kent producing neer a hogshead of pure wine Item There is a Root ordinarily to be had that wil grow as plentifully as Carrets that hath been formerly sold for 1. s. the pound and wil now sell for at least 7d the pound not instanced before being a staple commodity Item Seven severall sorts of seeds that will yeeld either of them constantly above 20lib an Acre per annum not hinted before Item another seed that will afford 20lib and upwards an Acre per annum nothing thereunto belonging being edible or appliable for health Item 50lib an Acre offered this year in Glocester-shiere and so for many Acres these nine being neither of the five sorts following viz. Oade Osiars Rape seed Fennel seed or Safforn Divers excellent and new discovered experiments to avoid the smuttinesse of Corn and Mildewes Out of Land worne out of heart and naturally poor to have a crop of Oats and a full crop of excellent fruitfull Hay after it the same year and to advantage the ground for crops of grasse afterwards exceedingly Item To inrich Meadows in a very high nature without Muck or any course of watering and to make them yeild five times more Grasse then formerly Item To make rushie ground to bear very good grasse and to destroy rushes fearn c. Item Another way to make an acre of meadow every year as good as two acres only by casting a seed amongst it which may be ordinarily provided for other meadows Item A seed that afforded being sowen in York shire out of two pecks and halfe as much as was sold for neer 40lib which may be performed elsewhere Item By laying out 5. s. per acre to reap it in the pounds Item When lands are tilled till they will bear no corn and mowed till they yeeld no grasse to restore them both to good heart and strength and to far greater fruitfulnesse then ever they yeelded before without laying so much as a load of muck thereon or without any considerable charge or trouble And by a way likewise newly experimented to make a barren field quite out of heart or being the last year of a lease to yeeld an extraordinary good crop of corn without muck and with no charge and but little trouble Item A late experiment no way repugnant to the dictates of common reason to cause lands by Gods permission they being capable of improvement to return 20. haply 100 for one either in wheat or barly and to make it most apparent by luculent demonstrations that there hath and may be made a greater return by far of either Item After a man hath tilled and sowed a parcell of ground at the full hight and charge according to his uttermost skill and experience in husbandry to undertake to dispose of the one halfe part of the same parcell so that with the blessing of God it may happily quadruple the benefit of the other part and to make the same advantage of any other field of corne and much more if I may have the totall dispose thereof Item Directions concerning the great variety of compost for the severall conditions and capacities of grounds with divers new discoveries relating thereunto The true understanding and practice thereof will under God inrich any industrious man whatsoever Item A cleer demonstration by wayes consonant to reason and not formerly known or thought on to make exceeding rich muck in abundance 1000 loads and upwards if you please for all sorts of grounds according to the capacities they lie under severall wayes with little charge wherewith any man may be sufficiently furnished and so good that the world cannot afford better without the use of sheep Item A very late but a most certain and infallible experiment to be confirmed by principles of sound reason visible to any dubious and unbeleeving mind whatsoever to draw forth the earth to her uttermost fruitfulnesse and to moisten fatten and fertilize sandy dry and hilly grounds and to water them sufficiently in times of drought and to make them capable of vast advantages both for grasse and corn and to continue them in the highest condition without carrying a load of muck thereunto which way may be enjoyed in a plentifull manner the charge not considerable this will likewise produce much fertility to all manner of quicksets all sorts of plants all kind of trees and to gardens likewise being seasonably applyed which may be made out cleer easie and no wayes obstructive to ordinary apprehensions And these two last may be performed accordingly throughout England Item To make the tenth part of seed corn to serve with far greater advantage then with the usuall proportion Item A late rare invention to make five loads of dung more effectuall then twenty loads of the usual compost and one acre of ground generally to extend as far and to be as beneficial for corn as three acres and to last so constantly Item Whereas there hath been a very great destruction of beans and pease these late years by worms and other creeping things men being ignorant of any remedy therefore to discover a rationall and an experimented easie way generally to destroy them both in corn-fields gardens and at the roots of trees and very much to advantage and fertilize the grounds and trees thereby To make grounds free from rotting of cattel and to prescribe remedies to cure the rot if not too far gone and to prevent the same Item An excellent experiment to make trees bear much and exceeding good fruit That I know where there is now to be had 500. acres of ground intire at 8. s. the acre within 15. miles of London whereby there may be justifiably raised 8000 lib. per annum and so proportionably with lesse parcells which may be performed in other places accordingly Item To make cattel swine and poultry fat with water only mingled with earth Item Severall excellent experiments to help maturation Item A sort of ducks to be now had that will lay two eggs a day constantly Item A sort of Rabbets to be now had not mingled which have been in request formerly but such as their skins are now are worth 2. s. and 3. s. the skin which begin neerly to come in estimation equall to beaver And another breed thereof that are as big again as the ordinary Rabbets Item Directions how a cart may be made to draw with one horse as much as five horses this King James beheld with his ful approbation and for the

of excellent cream such and so good that the like was never heard of this exceeds all other food for cheese and when all the cream is taken off the milk will be as good again as any other in that kind this seed will cost nothing and will sow it selfe after the first year and will afford in seed above 1000 for one Item Another seed that when grounds are laid down and quite out of heart the grasse thereon will maintain the greatest sheep very lusty and fit for slaughter and yet there hardly appeares any thing they can eat This seed being provided and sowen upon meadowes and pasture would mightily advantage the grasse to very great perfection with the application of the way for growthsomenesse but newly devised Item Another seed to be had the grasse thereof causeth cattle to give milk in abundance you may sow your dry heathy and barren grounds therewith and such land as you intend to let lie being out of heart and not in a place convenient for muck and sowing but once with this seed it will last good seven years without any further trouble The ordinary burthen is a load and a halfe per acre and after seven years you may break it up and sow it with corne without manuring till it be out of heart and then sow it with the same seed as formerly for it doth very much fatten the ground and inrich it and will thrive extraordinary well upon dry land where nothing else will grow and when the grasse and plants are destroyed with the parching heat of the Sunne this flourisheth very much and after seven years if not with corn you may sow the land againe with the same seed and all with little charge The truth is it will last 10 or 15 years Sir Richard Weston saith it will be cut seven or eight times in a Summer but then the rich and fat grounds are best and those that are high and dry Another seed to be sown without manuring upon good land but somewhat loose and light not very dry nor over moist one bushel to six corn will serve it s to be cut twice a year and affords excellent winter pasture till March and it is exceeding good for all kind of cattel as wel young as old and exceedingly fatneth all sorts of cattel and lean beasts especially and horses will grow fat therewith in eight or ten days and to milch kine it procureth exceeding great store of milk after once sowen it wil last neer fifteen years and the hay will continue good three years To discover a grasse growing here in England in its naturall soile that being orderly husbanded will transcend glover grasse Saint Foine Lucerne or any other outlandish grasses whatsoever Item A root ordinarily to be had which will increase wonderfully with little charge or trouble it will feed all kind of cattel horses and swine especially very fat as those formerly without either grasse or corn and will feed poultrey likewise as before it will make very good bread cakes paste pies and both crust without and food with in and will hardly be destroyed once planted but will constantly increase of themselves they will likewise grow being cut in flices and so put into the earth Item A seed which may likewise be disposed of without ploughing upon very poor ground deemed uncapable of any fertility at all which will advantage the ground very much and afford at least 30l an acre per annum or perform what was profess'd before for all sorts of cattel poultrey c. Item Another seed the fruit thereof upon the same sort of ground though very mean will feed all kind of cattel especially milch kine increasing their milk exceedingly as before and will afford two crops a year Item Another seed that being tilled but once will last without any further labour trouble or charge four years and will mightily inrich improve and fatten the ground for goodly corn four years after without manuring and is excellent for horses hunting-dogs poultry and swine and may be very well rated at a 100lib per annum and upwards the benefit and great increase thereof truly considered Item Another great experiment in ordinary grounds without muck which by a new invention five acres thereof have this last year afforded above 200lib benefit in one acre rent and all charges defraied and being still ordered according to directions will continue no lesse advantagious and inrich the ground very much Item Trees to be had here in England but in one place which being rightly planted though in ordinary grounds one tree will in a short time afford out of the Root thirty plants and every one of those thirty will in a short time afford thirty more and these trees are at their full growth in twenty years and after seven years every tree improveth yearly worth 1. s. a tree untill its time be up For pleasantnesse and use this tree hardly hath its paralell they need be planted but ten foot distant and they much advantage the grasse besides there is another seed to be sown amongst them that will in some places farre exceed the benefit of the grass the trees being very tall and strait usefull for timber carts traies boles c. being very white and tough By 30lib deposited in a way concerning these trees may be returned at 20 years end 10000lib benefit Item To raise wood more in twenty years by new ways lately discovered then in forty years naturally Item Experienced ways lately in practice by divers Gent ' and a long time continued by some of them to preserve and feed horses for labour and travell in the best condition without Hay or Corn several ways and neither of them instanced before There is a Knight in the country that hath advanced his estate above 1000 lib. per annum by planting of one ordinary commodity in the countrey on the coursest sort of ground which may be performed in some places by others A Gent ' by planting an Acre and half of ground received lately neer 200lib profit in one year without tillage these two not hinted before and to be peracted by others and the last with an additional benefit Item By two sorts of Creatures ordinarily to be had may be gained de claro above 500lib per annum and by another there hath been and may be got above 500lib per annum and either of them with very little trouble and the charges of all three not considerable and all to be acted within doors A Gent ' in Northfolk made lately 10000lib of a piece of ground not forty yards square and yet neither Minerall nor Mettall and as beneficial places may be discovered elsewhere in England To advance Ground from 5. s. an Acre to 50lib an Acre per annum by ways apparantly maintaineable and not by tillage Item After seven years to make 20lib an Acre per annum constantly without tillage as the other with very little charge and with the ordinary sort of