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Of the ‘Production of new Plants.

Artichockes grow continually,we may learn to do it out of CaJfianus,yiho following the Authority of Varro, faith,that Artichocks always bring forth fruit about the fame season that they are set in,andtherefore it is easie to have them all the year long. The ordinary fealon of plantingArtichocks is in November & September,and commonly they bear fruit in July andAugust: but they will bring forth also in March and April, if they be planted ac-cordingly ; for by that time they will have as perfect a foul, as at any time else. Ifyou practise it three years together, to plant them in the moneths of November,December, January, February, and March, you shall have Artichockes of thackind, as will bring forth fresh fruit almost all the year long. Likewise, if you desireto have

Sperage alwayes growing sr ejhy

and fit to be eaten, you must take this course: as soon as you have gathered the fruit,you must dig round about the roots as they lie in their own place under the earth,and by this means they willihoot up into new stalks. In like manner, if you de-sire to have

Roses growing all the year long-,

you must plant them in every moneth some, and by dunging them, and taking goodheed unto them , you shall have fresh Roses continually. By the like practice, youmay also have

Lillies all the year long •

for if you take the roots or cloves of Lillies,and set them in the ground, some four-teen, some twelve, some eight fingers deep, you shall by this means have Lillies allthe year long, and so many several flowers of them as you have planted severalroots. And as this may be done by Lillies, so Anatolim thinks the fame pra-ctice will take like effect in all other flowers. Thcophrasttu faith , that wemay have

Violets alwayesgrowingy

if we set them in well-fenced places, and such as lie open to the force of the Sun •for commonly fruits and flowers will grow there, when they will grow no whereelse: but they must be very carefully lookt unto, and then they will come on thebetter. The best way is, to set them in earthen vessels, and keep them from vehe-ment cold and heat, bringing them forth still when the Air is calm and temperate,and applying them with moisture, and muck, and careful! dressing. So we may pro-cure also thac

The Herhe Oenanthejkall flourish all the ye&r ;

fotTheofhrastus writes,that if we deal thereby, as in the procuring of Violets, weshall have flowers upon ic continually.

Chap. X.

How to produce fruits that (hall be later and backward.

have already shewed how to produce forward fruits thac will be very timelyripe; now it remaineth that we set down inch cunning sleights and devices, asf w‘ y wemav P rocure fruit to grow very later, not to be ripe before the lowestof Winter. And this we may learn to effect by contrary causes to the former; andwhereas we were to heat that which we would have to be timely ripe, we must hereuse coolers to make things ripen slowly ; and whereas before we were toengraffemer fruits into forward Trees, here we must engraffe forward fruits into laterrees, Likewise we must sow or plant late, that we may receive later fruit: for as

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