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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	father_n	good_a	holy_a	7,427	5	4.6212	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19451	The country-mans recreation, or the art of planting, graffing, and gardening in three bookes. The first declaring divers wayes of planting, and graffing ... also how to cleanse your grafts and cions, how to helpe barren and sicke trees, how to kill wormes and vermin and to preserve and keepe fruit, how to plant and proyne your vines, and to gather and presse your grape ... how to make your cider and perry ... The second treateth of the hop-garden, with necessary instructions for the making and the maintenance thereof ... Whereunto is added, the expert gardener, containing divers necessary and rare secrets belonging to that art ...	Mascall, Leonard, d. 1589. Booke of the arte and maner, howe to plant and graffe all sortes of trees. aut; Scot, Reginald, 1538?-1599. Perfite platforme of a hoppe garden. aut	1640 (1640)	STC 5874; ESTC S108874	101,331	202

that they lye also in very dry places by night covered thinne with Wheat straw and if the time of Winter be cold and very hard then put of Hay above them in your straw and take it away when as a faire time commeth and thus ye shall keepe your fruit faire and good The dayes to Plant and Graffe ALso as some say from the first day of the new Moone unto the xiii day thereof is good for to plant or Graffe or sow and for great need some doe take unto the xvii or xviii day thereof and not after neither graffe nor sow but as is afore-mentioned a day or two dayes afore the change the best signes are Taurus Virgo and Capricorne To have greene Roses all the yeare FOr to have greene Roses ye shall as some say take your Rose buds in the Spring time and then graffe them upon the Holly-stocke and they shall be greene all the yeare To keepe Raisons or Grapes good a yeare FOr to keepe Raisons or Grapes good all a whole yeare ye shall take of fine dry Sand and then lay your Raisons or Grapes therein and it shall keepe them good a whole yeare Some keepe them in a close Glasse from the ayre To make fruit laxitive from the Tree FOr to make any fruit laxitive from the Tree what fruit soever it be make a hole in the stocke or in the maister roote of the Tree with a great Piercer slope-wise not through but unto the pith or somewhat further then fill the said hole with the juyce of Elder of Centory of Seny or of Turnith or such like laxitives then fill the said hole therewith of which of them ye will or else ye may take three of them together and fill the said hole therewith and then stop the said hole close with soft Waxe then lay it thereon and put mosse very well over all so that nothing may issue or fall out and all the fruit of the said Tree shall be from thence-forth laxitive A Note for all Grafters and Planters ALso whensoever ye shall Plant or Graffe it shall be meet and good for you to say as followeth In the name of God the Father the Sonne and the Holy Ghost Amen Increase and multiply and replenish the earth and say the Lords Prayer then say Lord God heare my prayer and let this my desire of thee be heard The holy Spirit of God which hath created all things for Man and hath given them for our comfort in thy name O LORD wee set Plant and Graffe desiring that by thy mighty power they may encrease and multiply upon the earth in bearing plenty of fruit to the profit and comfort of all the faithfull people through Christ our Lord Amen Heere followeth certaine wayes of Planting and Graffing with other necessaries heerein meete to be knowne Translated out of Dutch by L. M. To graffe one Vine on another YOu that will Graffe one Vine upon another ye shall in Ianuary cleave the head of the Vines as ye doe other stockes and then put in your Vine Graffe or Cion but first ye must pare him thin ere ye set him in the head then Clay and Mosse him as the other Chosen dayes to Graffe in and to choose your Cions ALso whensoever that ye will Graffe the best chosen time is on the last day before the Change and also in the Change and on the second day after the change 〈◊〉 if ye Graffe as some say on the third fourth and fifth day after the change it will be so many yeares ere those Trees bring forth fruit Which thing ye may beleeve if ye will but I will not For some doe hold opinion that it is good graffing from the change unto the xviii day thereof which J thinke to be good in all the increasing of the Moone but the sooner the better To gather your Cions ALso such Cions or Graffes which ye doe get on the other Trees the young Trees of three or foure yeares or five or sixe yeares are best to have Graffes Take them of no under boughes but in the top upon the East side if ye can and of the fairest and greatest Ye shall cut them two inches long of the old Wood beneath the joynt And whensoever ye will graffe cut or pare your Graffes taper-wise from the joynt two inches or more of length which ye shall set into the stocke and before ye set it in ye shall open your stocke with a wedge of Iron or hard wood faire and softly then if the sides of your clefts be ragged ye shall pare them with the point of a sharp knife on both sides within and above then set in your Graffes close on the out-sides and also above but let your stocke be as little while open as ye can and when your grafts be well set in plucke forth your wedge and if your stockes doe pinch your grafts much then ye must put in a wedge of the same wood to helpe your Graffes Then ye shall lay a thicke barke or pill over the cleft from the one Graft to the other to keepe out the clay and raine and so clay them two fingers thicke round about the cliffes and then lay on Mosse but wooll is better next to your clay or else to temper your Clay with wooll or haire for it shall make it bide closer and also stronger on the stock-head some take wooll next the clay and wrappeth it all over with linnen clouts for the wool being once moist will keep the clay so a long time And other some take Wollen clouts that have beene laid in the juyce of Worme-wood or such like bitter thing to keep creeping Worms from comming under to the Grafts If ye graffe in Winter put your clay uppermost for Summer your Mosse For in Winter the Mosse is warme and your clay will not cleave In Summer your clay is cold and your Mosse keepes him from cleaving or chapping To bind them take of Willow pills of cloven Briers of Oziers or such like To gather your Graffes of the East part of the tree is counted best if ye gather them below on the under boughes they will grow ●●●ggie and spreading abroad If ye take them in the top of the tree they will grow upright Yet some doe gather there Cions or Graffes on the sides of the trees and so graffe them againe on the like sides of the stocks the which is of some men not counted so good for fruit It is not good to graft a great stocke for they will be long ere they cover the head thereof Of Wormes in Trees or fruit IF ye have any trees eaten with Worms or doe bring Wormy fruit ye shall use to wash all his body and great branches with two parts of Gowpisse and one part of Vineger or else if ye can get no Vineger with Cowpisse alone tempered with common Ashes then wash your trees therwith before the Spring and in the Spring or in Summer Anniseeds sowne about the tree rootes