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A26231 A dialogue (or familiar discourse) and conference betweene the husbandman and fruit-trees in his nurseries, orchards, and gardens wherein are discovered many usefull and profitable observations and experriments [sic] in nature, in the ordering fruit-trees for temporall profitt ... / by Ra. Austen ... Austen, Ralph, d. 1676. 1676 (1676) Wing A4233; ESTC R5888 40,239 128

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We grow in a goo●… and fresh soyle and are large in bulk an● substance as other Trees and we bea●… Fruits according to our Natures but w● were never ingrafted as some other Tree● are which grow by us so that we growing still upon our own naturall wild stocke and Roote we bring forth Fruit accordingly And so are like to do untill we have an alteration by ingrafting No workes pleasing to God without sincerity HVSBANDMAN Herein yee beare the likenesse and resemblance of hypocrites in the Visible Church who live amongst true beleevers and make a faire shew with an outward forme and Profession of Religion in all externall Duties but because they are not sincere and upright have not the truth of grace nor were ever really ingrafted into Christ but grow still upon the old stocke of corrupt Nature thence it is that their Fruits are nought and unpleasant to God the Husbandman tho●gh they are never so faire and beautifull on the outside yet wanting a good Tast that is they have no good Ends in any thing they do they make not the glory of God the chiefe and maine End of that they do for all men by Nature make themselves their End and not the glory of God and therefore they are not accepted of God such had need to consider their state whilst it is called to day and see that they rest not on this side an interest in Christ Section 12. Mulberry-trees called Sapientissima Arborum HVSBANDMAN Here are a certaine Number of Mulberri-trees in a row by themselves which are a kind of Trees in great esteeme among men in severall respects your Leaves are the best foode for Silke-wormes And your Fruits are exceeding good to make Syrups for divers uses which Apothecaries and others do make yearely And yee are called by some auncient Authors who write of Fruit-trees Sapientissima Arborum How come yee to be wiser then other Trees How are any Trees said to be wise what say yee of your selves FRVIT-TREES We owne no such Epithite as wise we are no wiser then other Trees but some men are pleased so to say of us because we keepe in and shew not our Buds nor spring till late in the yeare about the beginning of May when all the cold frosty weather is gone and past But this is according to the course of Nature the Law of our Creation which we and all other Trees do constantly observe And in this is seehe the wisdome of our Creator who doth all things wisely and hath made us so to do Mulberry-trees bud late because of a tender Nature For we are of a more weake and tender Nature then many other Fruit-trees are which bud and spring it may be 6 weeks or two Months before us as Cherrytrees Plumtrees and other Trees do But if we should dare to peepe out and appeare so soone we should not be able to beare it HVSBANDMAN It is very certaine that there are diversities of Natures and properties among Fruit-trees as all other Creatures and therefore they must be planted and ordered accordingly some are so tender that they will not thrive nor beare Fruits but against a wall and that upon the South-Sun too and carefully and tenderly ordered others will grow and beare well in the open Fields notwithstanding all cold frosts storms and winds that they meete with some Christians are more valiant for Christ then others But this may be transferred to a higher use And gives us to understand That this is even so among spirituall Fruit-trees Professing Christians some are more hardy Souldiers and more valiant then others And can stand out against and encounter with more and greater difficulties then others though true beleevers can do some have a great and strong faith Mat. 15.28 O Woman great is thy faith others have but a weake faith O yee of little faith Mat. 6 30. Some have great measures of the Spirit of God light wisdome and knowledge others are but Babes and Children in understanding and grace some Christians have much love to Christ and zeale for him as having the manifestations of his love more cleare and evident to them then some others have some others Love but little and all is weake in them and so they can do but little nor suffer for Christ the moving Cause being but weake in them the Effects are Answerable Section 13. Fruits ripen successively upon the same Tree others altogether HVSBANDMAN I observe That some kinds of these Fruit-trees do bring forth their ripe fruits gradually and successively upon the same Tree some of the Fruits are ripe and ready to be gathered severall weekes before the rest as amongst Aprecotts Peaches Cherrys and Plums and such like Sommer Fruits we find some Fruits ripe whilst others on the same Tree and same Bough are yet hard and greene But some other kinds of Trees bring forth their Fruits ripe and ready together all at one time upon the same Tree as Pippins Peremains and all Winter Fruits What is the Reason of this variation in the ripening of the Fruits of Trees The Wisdome and bounty of God in ripening of Fruits FRVITTREES Thou maist herein see and observe the Wisdome bounty and goodnesse of our Creator For if we that are Cherrytrees Plumtrees and such like sommer Fruits should bring forth our Fruits all at once there would be a glutt of Fruits And we should do more hurt then good amongst People for we are no lasting Fruits we cannot keepe as thou knowest but should in a few daies rott upon thy hand Therefore God gives our Fruits to thee successively some one day and some another as thou and others may make use of them for health and Profitt And as for hard Winter Fruits they are ripe all of them together on the same Trees that so they 〈…〉 gathered altogether and laid up in ●…ore for use all the yeare long And is th●… not the like Wisdome bounty and goodnesse from God shewed to all people in this as in the former though each of them in different respects as hath been said Section 14. HVSBANDMAN Here are a sort of Trees that do not thrive nor prosper as other Trees do what 's the reason seeing yee are as well planted and preserved as other Trees which grow neere unto you FRVIT-TREES South Country trees p●…per not in England We are forreners this is not our Native Country we were brought from beyond the Seas from a warme Clymate where we had a strong heate and influence of the Sun but we are here in a cold Country and it agrees not with us we shall never grow nor prosper nor bring forth Fruits to please thee or for thy Profit Plant Fruit-trees fitt for the Countrey HVSBANDMAN I beleeve what ye say to be true Many Gentlemen of great estates to please their minds have sent for and bought many rare Plants and Trees from forraine parts out of the South-Countries of France Spaine Italie and other Southerne Clymates and