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A75801	A treatise of fruit-trees shewing the manner of grafting, setting, pruning, and ordering of them in all respects: according to divers new and easy rules of experience; gathered in ye space of twenty yeares. Whereby the value of lands may be much improued, in a shorttime [sic], by small cost, and little labour. Also discovering some dangerous errors, both in ye theory and practise of ye art of planting fruit-trees. With the alimentall and physicall vse of fruits. Togeather with the spirituall vse of an orchard: held-forth [sic] in divers similitudes betweene naturall & spirituall fruit-trees: according to Scripture & experie[n]ce. By Ra: Austen. Practiser in ye art of planting	Austen, Ralph, d. 1676.; Goddard, John, fl. 1645-1671,	1653 (1653)	Wing A4238; Thomason E701_5; Thomason E701_6; ESTC R12161	90,355	121

Clarret wine p. 55. The dryest Plumms as the Mussle Damazeene c. are the best p. 56. The white Peare-Plum stock a speciall kind to graft or Inoculate upon p. 56. Mix not Plums with Cherries in grafting they hold not long p. 56. Aprecot-Trees are propagated by the bud only not by grafting p. 56. Inoculate buds from the best bearing Trees and upon stocks full of Sap. p. 57. Nutmeg peach one of the best especially in respect of bearing p. 57. The great Blew Figg comes to perfect ripenes with us if set against a South wall p. 57. Vineyards formerly in England p. 58. The Parsley Vine and White Mukadine beare store of good fruits with us p. 58. Portingall Quince the best kind p. 59. Black Mulberry Trees beare abundanly p. 59. Chuse the fairest Walnuts of thinnest shells and good bearers to set p. 59. Graft old Trees if bad bearers or bad fruits p 59 Arbors of Fruit-trees better then of Privet c. p. 60. Begin to Transplant betime divers advantages by it p. 60. Breake off the leaves of Plants when taken up p. 61. Cut the ends of all the Roots smooth before setting p. 61. Set not below the soyle yet deeper on dry ground then on moist p. 51. In setting Trees observe a fit distance see the advantages thereby p. 52. Put some good mould next the Roots of Plants in setting 63. Ordering Plants the first yeare of setting is of speciall concernment p. 63. Suffer not the maine branches of wal-trees to rise upwards but spread them on the sides of the wall p. 64. Wall-trees must be Pruned and Ordered both in Summer and in Winter p. 94. Error in pruning Waltrees Cutting off too many shoots 65. Prune oldtrees about October or November p. 65. Bare old trees at the roots about October and lay some good soyles to them p. 66. Piggions dung Henns dung Blood of Cattle or the like is speciall good to cause Trees to beare well p. 66. Mowing of Orchards is exceeding hurtfull to fruit-trees but suffering Cattell to lye among them is very profitable p. 66. Mosse on Fruit-trees caused by coldnesse and barrennesse of the ground p. 67. Cut off the Branches of Trees Barkbound p. 67. Cut out the Canker of Fruit-trees p. 68. Destroy Catterpillers in breeding p. 68. Preserue the Fruits from Ants Erewiggs Snayles Wasps Birds and winds as much as may be 69. Cyder made of Fruits newly gathered and also when they are mellow how to make it p. 70. Preserve Cyder from Ayre p. 70. Cyder boyled with Spices is very Cordiall p. 70. Colour Cyder with the Juyce of Mulberries great bearing Cherry c. p. 70. Cyder in Bottles sunck into a well will keep good many years p. 71. How to keepe Apples p. 71. Apples helpe concoction p. 71. They are profitable in hot diseases and against melancholy the plurisie c. p. 72. Apples are singular good to cure the Strangury and other diseases proceeding of the difficulty of making water see how ordered p. 72. Peares are more nourishing then Apples p. 72. A wine of peares not inferior to French wines p. 72. Cyder and Perry Cordiall Liquors profitable for health and long life p. 73. Quinces Cordiall fruits and of manifold uses p. 73. How to keepe Quinces a yeare or two p. 73. Cherries breed good bloud in the body The sharp are best p. 73. A pleasant refreshing wine made of Cherries more fit for Summer then hot wines p. 74. Cherries boyld in brothes and drinks good for hot and feuerish bodies p. 74. Kernels of Cherry stones breake the bladder-stone p. 74. Cherries strengthen and stir up appetite to meat p. 74. Plummes cast out chollericke humors and are good in hot diseases p. 74. The infusion of dryed Aprecots is profitable in sharp feavors p. 75. Peaches coole and keepe the belly soluble eat them as all other fruits moderatly and drinke a Cup of wine after p. 75. Wine of Mulberies a small Quantity of Juyce will colour White-wine Cyder Perry c and makes a pleasant sawce p. 74. Juyce of Mulberies good against a sore mouth or throat they styre up a languishing appetite p. 76. Figgs nourish much and breed store of bloud are accompted restorative they help an old Cough boyled with Isop many other purposes p. 76. Medlers fortify digestion stay vomiting and loosnesse of the belly kernells with parslely roots c. mightly drive out stones and gravell from the kidnyes p. 77. Walnuts help digestion with other things they resist poyson greene Walnuts distilled preserve against the Pestilence p. 77. Errors discovered concerning the Art of Planting first in the writings of some secondly in the practice of others see the particulars p. 79 80 81 82. c. Planting of Fruit-Trees The best way of Improvement of Lands THE Profits of Orchards and Gardens are very well known to many in this Nation so that the things I hold forth to men are not doubtfull and questionable whether advantages will arise or noe when they have bestowed their time and labours about them but Profits are as certaine by the blessing of God if men labour in them as a harvest of Corne in Autumme when the husbandman hath plowed and sowed in the spring or other season Worcestershire Herefordshire Gloustershire Kent and many other parts in this Nation can sufficiently evidence the Profits of Orchards and fruit-trees in the fieilds and hedges And those good Common-wealths-men who have written of the Improvement of lands have all agreed that this is the highest way of improvement of any other Mr Blith in his Book intituled The Improver improved a work doubtlesse of singular use hath asserted That Planting Fruit-trees at such a distance as they cannot reach when they have attained largest growth they doe advantage the Land even in respect of Grasse although the common prejudice against Fruit-trees in feilds is that they spoyle Grasse as that some Land not being worth above 10s or 13s 4d. an Acre the Grasse by planting Fruit trees regularly upon it was afterwards worth 30s or 40s or 50s an Acre And the Fruits upon the Trees may yeild some 3l some 5l Or some 6 or 8l an Acre See Pag. 262. of his Book And that in Kent Essex Surrey Middlesex and those parts some Land that was not worth above 6 or 8s the Acre was by Nurseries of young Trees planting and ordering of them in certaine years brought to be worth 20l an Acre and some 40 or more And further he affirmeth that some Orchards in those parts are worth to grase Forty or fifty shillings or 3l an Acre and are so let to Tenants And the fruits of those Trees seldome yeild so little as Double or treble the worth of the Grasse many times five or six fold or more see Pag. 263. of his Book It may perhaps be objected That Fruit-trees so planted make grasse under and about them sower that it is not so pleasant and good for Cattle as some other where no Trees are It

Profits Pleasures A Treatise of FRVIT-TREES Shewing the manner of Grafting Setting Pruning and Ordering of them in all respects According to divers new and easy Rules of experience gathered in the space of Twenty yeares Whereby the value of Lands may be much improued in a short time by small cost and little labour Also discovering some dangerous Errors both in the Theory and Practise of the Art of Planting Fruit-trees With the Alimentall and Physicall vse of fruits Togeather with The Spirituall vse of an Orchard Held forth in divers Similitudes betweene Naturall Spirituall Fruit-trees according to Scripture Experiēce By RA AUSTEN Practiser in the Art of Planting A Garden inclosed is my sister my Spouse Thy Plants are an Orchard of Pomegranats with pleasant fruits Cant 4 12 13 I Goddard sculp Oxford printed for Tho Robinson 1653. To the Worshipfull SAMVEL HARTLIB Esquire My much Honoured Friend I Am not unmindfull worthy Sir under what engagement you stand upon mine accompt to the Publique In the late Treatise of improvement of Lands by our deceased friend Mr Blith which you were pleased so freely to undertake for mee And which was renewed againe in the Designe for Plenty According to my duty therefore I have endeavoured to answer your and others expectation in this my ensuing Discourse of Fruit-trees It is agreed on all hands That this worke of Planting Fruit-trees through the blessing of God is of vast Profit where it is diligently and skilfully undertaken Mr Blith in his Book discovers the great Improvement of Lands some to a Five fold some to a Tenne and some to a Twenty fold value And the highest way there mentioned is by Planting Fruit trees As may be seene at large Pag. 262 263. c. of his Worke. And in your Legacy of Husbandry it is accompted a great deficiency in England that we have no more Fruit-trees Planted which would be a chiefe meanes to enrich this Common-wealth in many respects And in particular with such a Commodity as that we should not need to bestow our monies for French Wines or the like having Liquors Cyder Perry Cherry-wines c. as good or better made of our own fruits As it is there observed If men would Plant Fruit-trees not only in Gardens but also in many of their Fields and Hedges This course after some years might save the expence of many Thousand Quarters of Mault yearely in the Nation And many Thousand Loades of Wood and other Fuell in making Mault and as much it may be in Brewing Beere And many thousand Acres sowed yearely with Barly might be sowed with Bread-corne or turned into Pasture-grounds by reason of the abundance of those most healthfull Liquors Cyder and Perry that might be yearely made Besides great store of Wood would be got for Fuell by the Prunings of the Fruit-trees and Old Trees past bearing with spetiall Wood for Joyners and many other purposes This likewise might be one chiefe way among others for imploying and setting on worke very many Poore People The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousnesse Prov. 21.5 in Inclosing and preparing Grounds for Planting and many other Workes according to the late consultations of the Parliament whereby they might maintaine themselves and profit others in stead of burthening of them Yea hereby would accrue to the Poore and the whole Nation many great advantages in severall respects First a Freedome and deliverance of multitudes from Idlenesse Beggery Shame and consequently Theft Murther and at last the Gallowes Secondly Positive advantages Meate Drinke Clothing Riches and Profits to themselves and others If the higher powers whom God hath set up to designe and labour for the welfare and prosperity of his People would please to make a Law there being Lawes of a thousand times lesse consequence for the Inclosure and Plantation of some of the Wast and Common Grounds Whereof there are many Thousand Acres in this Nation such as are most fit for Improvement according as is largely and with wisdome and judgement set forth in the late Treatise entituled Bread for the Poore And in another Treatise entituled A Designe for Plenty there would by the blessing of God on our Labours be Bread indeed for the Poore and Wine too Yea Riches and Lands of Inheritance to those who are not now worth a Groat For in divisions and inclosures of Wast and Common Grounds by Persons appoynted for that purpose why should not the Poore have their share and proportion as well as their rich Neighbours and that to them and their heires for ever yea let the Poore be first provided for Are not these the times of the Gospell prophesied of Esay 49.19 20. When the Wast and desolate places shall be inhabited The people of God being multiplied as in these our daies they are more then in former times they now say to Authority as vers 20. The place is too straite for us give place to us that we may dwell Many of the Wast and Common Grounds being inclosed might be improved unto farre greater advantages then now they are both as to the Lords of the Wasts and others claiming interest in them for the encrease of Cattell both in Number and greatnesse our breed of Horses might then be fit for Warre whereas now the Commons starve and spoyle them as to such service And all sorts of Corne Fruits of Trees Timber Fuell Hempe Flaxe and many other Profits might be multiplied whereby the Nation would abound with all outward necessaries for it selfe and the overplus to transport to other parts for the enriching strengthning of this Nation still more and more in stead of sending out our Monies and Commodities for supplies from them And hereby this Nation might become able under the hand of God to support it selfe and helpe to uphold others also who are friends to us and be a terror to all those that contend with us An eminent person once said of this Nation that it is a very Garden of delights and a Well that cannot be exhausted What then would it be did it abound with goodly Fruit-trees and other Profits where now are barren Wasts Might it not then be called another Canaan flowing with Milke and hony of which it is recorded that there were Fruit-trees in abundance Nehem. 9.25 The more obstructions we have from Forraine parts the more need we have to labour diligently for all necessary and usefull things within our own Nation that we may be able to subsist without the help of others so that this work of Planting Fruit-trees for improvement of Lands is fit to be carried on as well if not much rather in these times of Warre as in times of Peace Upon all which Accompts it is my humble desire That you Sir who have laboured and done so much already for the Publique would still be pleased to be assistant and instrumentall for the promoting and setting on foot the Work of Planting Fruit-trees in this Nation more then in former