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affjiyed ic; and by reason of seme error and negligence, -I obtained cot my de-sire! : howbeit,many of my friends having made diligent trial hereof, found it to bea very true experiment. Likewise may

Lentiles be hastened in their growths

if they be smeared over with dry Ox-dung, a little befeise they are sown > butthey had need lie in that dung four or five daies before they be cast into thfcground. So

Melens rutty be hastened in their fruit ;

for if in the Winter-time you lay a parcel of earth in mixer, s that are made of hotdung, and in the fame earth sow Melon-feeds, the heat of the dung will cause themsoon to sprout forth: you must keep them warm with some covering, from the snow,and the cold of the night; and afterward when the Air is more calm, you mustplant them in some other place: for by this means we have hastened the fruithereof. And by this fame device qf preventing their feed-rime, we maycause

Cucumbers to hasten their fruit.

But Theophraftus fettfcth down another practice. Cucumber-roots, if they be care-fully lookc into, will live long. Therefore if a man cut off a Cucumber close by theground,after it haih brought forth fruir, and then cover the roots over with earth,the very fame roots the year following will bring forth very timely fruit, even be-fore others that were most seasonably sown. Theophrastut also sets down an-other way

Of hastening (Cucumbers ,

and that is by macerating the feed before it be sown; or else by supplying ft withcontinual moisture after it is sown. So also we may procure

Pease or Vitches to be timely ripe ;

If we sow them before their ordinary feai’on in Barley time, as Florentinm sheweth.But Theophrastru faith this may be done by macerating them in the water beforeseed-time, but especially if you macerate them shales and all: for there is but *little of it will turn to putrefaction ; and the (hale feeds thfc kernel well at the first,howsoever afterward it turn to nothing. The fame Theophrastus sheweth also

How the %jtpe-reot may be hastened ingrowth.

If the Gardner, faith he, do hide the fame in an heap of earth, it will cause ic tobring forth very timely fruit the year following. There may other fruits also betimely ripened; as

: A Qjtinee may be hastened in ripening , -

if you daily bedew them with continual moisture, as PaHadius (heweth. Andmocritut faith, you may have --

Roses growing in the moneth of January ,

if you water the ffip twice a day in the Summer-time. We may likewise pro-cure that .

gourds [had bring forth very timely t

by underpropping and holding up their young tender sprig?. In like manner wemay cause ° a

The forward Figure* to hasten her fruits

k ar *fy\ n & the body of the Tree, that the milky juice may there swellhnd lflue out of it, that when the superfluous humor is gone forth, that which is« left