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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
head_n	root_n	small_a	stalk_n	3,386	5	11.6822	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45756	Samuel Hartlib, his legacy of husbandry wherein are bequeathed to the common-wealth of England, not onely Braband and Flanders, but also many more outlandish and domestick experiments and secrets (of Gabriel Plats and others) never heretofore divulged in reference to universal husbandry : with a table shewing the general contents or sections of the several augmentations and enriching enlargements in this third edition.	Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.	1655 (1655)	Wing H991; ESTC R3211	220,608	330

Spirit as yours is till I shall by Gods assistance be able next year to produce you more abundant examples of Gods wonderful power and bounty that offers and mans ingratitude that neglects or refuses such honest means of the truest and most justly gotten humane wealth honour and happiness Your most faithfull and obli-Friend and Servant C. D. September 26. 1650. A Conjectural Essay upon the fore-going Secret of Experiment of an English Husbandry My Dear Friend BEing the other day among a knot of great Husbands and telling stories of such like Experiments and Improvements I remembred something that seemed very remarkable concerning a very fortunate attempt in Husbandry made heretofore by Sir John Culpepper who they commended at least for a man very sagacious in things of this nature He it seems sowed a round parcel of Wheat about the Month of July and turned in sheep afterwards to eat it until about All-ha●ontide keeping it very low till the cold and winter began to come And without doing any thing else to it he gained so goodly and admirable a Crop of Wheat the next year that Kent scarce ever saw the like it growing in those parts almost to a Proverb As great a Crop as Sir John Culpepper had Sir This Story gave me an occasion by my self to meditate on your Friends Mr. Dymock's great Experiment of his Pease and Barley and remembring he did nothing to the seed nor to the ground but somewhat after it was come forth of the ground I began to consider Analytically what it was possible for man to do to Plants after they were come out of the ground And I satisfied my self that a man could but either dung them water them weed them remove them succour them keep them low by eating pruning or cutting them or lastly spread their Roots by rowling them And though there be some other managements by Glasses multiplying of light c. Yet I imagined they were too subtle and costly to take place here 1. For dunging and watering them they were clearly things done to the Ground it self as well as to the Plant. 2. For weeding them though this oft proved a great improvement and bettering of Plants yet I saw not how it could make so great an increase or multiplication of the Grain as was in Mr. Dymocks Experiment 3. For removing them and taking off the suckers though this be a very necessary management in taller Plants and serves to make them much more vegete and lusty yet I saw not how this could take more place in Barley and such small grain then grafting These Considerations made me pitch upon the two last and of the two rather upon Rowling or the like Art for the spreading the Roots of it then upon the other of eating feeding or cropping it 1. First Because the former Experiment of Sir John Culpeppers seemed to me an improvement of the Plant onely by the giving it opportunity the better to fasten and spread its root Which the length of time of its being in the ground the cold of the season and trampling and lying down of the sheep seemed all to confer unto All which Rowling I thought might in some measure perhaps supply 2. It is an Observation among some bigger Plants that their Roots are answerable to their Heads intimating that a small root could not have a large and bushy head no more then a strong and fairly spread root could have a small and spindly head And truly this Rule in greater Plants seems more necessary in smaller for how should we think there should be many ears or stalks from one Grain upon a small and single root for where could there be a place for them And how should we think a Root to be strong spreading and succulent and yet not endeavour Germination in the several parts and joynts of it especially in hasty growing Annual Plants I therefore conclude such a super-fortation of ears must necessarily proceed from an improvement by the Root where nothing was done either to prepare the Ground or the Seed And that this spreading of the Root is probable to be best effected by a Rowl or some such like thing 3. I might adde to this Conjecture the common Experiment of Camomil and some other low creeping Plants being rowled in dry weather As also an Experiment that I once heard of a Gardiner who raised a great Estate by his Husbandry of Turnips which was by keeping them low for a certain time by which they grew the sooner big and sweeter The like is used in some Countries to Potatoes To all which I might adde the plain defect of this Rowling in Husbandry to any sort of Grain which also may give the greater occasion of finding a remarkable benefit and improvement upon the use of it However Sir Being so much satisfied as I was of the thing I could not but give you this my Essay upon it and Conjecture the rather because in the more dry or stiff Grounds as also in seasons indifferent for moysture and drinesse If this have not been yet tryed Me thinks it were sit to be used To your inquiry after which I shall therefore leave it and shall be SIR Your very true Friend B. W. An Extract of a Letter from Amsterdam dated the 28. of November 1650. with another Experiment of a French Husbandry SIR I Am much obliged unto you for sending me the Discourse of the Braband Husbandry which I have perused Not long ago was told of certain men which would fain have morgaged some thousand Acres of Heathy Grounds which lay here and there as Commons But the late Prince of Orange by the advice of his Councel durst not entertain any such Propositions the lands belonging to the Commonalty On the other hand the undertakers would not be contented with lesse for imparting of their Secret It appears unto me by all circumstances that it was the same designe of Husbandry with yours the parties if I remember well being English men From Paris I am advertised for certain of one who did last year 1649. ferment one Grain of Wheat which this year hath produced him 114 Ears within them 6000 Grains which is more then 80 Ears and 600 Grains of your English friends This year 1650. he hath a great many fermented and sown An Answer to the foregoing Extract of a Letter from Amsterdam SIR I Have received from you a Relation of a very great and wonderful production or increase which your Friend at Amsterdam relates to be done in France I am far from lessening the admirable greatnesse of that persons skil and success Only since I find my self taken notice of by the same party and the Experiment I made the last year of Barley weighed in the scales with this and found too light I shall take leave to say that besides all difference that is or may conceived to be betwixt the soyles that of France hath a manifest advantage in the Elevation and powerful Operation of the Sun That