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you must steep this juice in water, to the thickuess of sodden wine: and this' yodmust do for eight dayes together every day once, till the vine-branch fptcut s orthagain. Co lumella faith the very fame; that the vine branch as it grows upon theVine must be cut, and the pith of it fetched out with feme fit instrument, as wellas you may, out of the top without the cleaving of the branch, but the branch be-ing whole, and still growing on the Vine, you must put into it some Beijamin orCyrenian juice steeped in water, as was (hewed before, and set it upright with aprop, that the juice may not run forth ; and this is to be done for eight dayes to-gether. So if we would procure

A Myrtle without u kernels

Theophrastus teacheth us how to do ir. If you water the Myrtle-tree with hot wa-ter, then, faith he, the fruit will be the better, and without any kernel. Someaffirm, that this experiment was found out by chance: for whereas there stoodneer to a Bath, a Myrtle-tree which no man regarded, the Commers by took offfeme of the fruit by chance, and found chem without any kernels; then they car-ried lome home, an diet them, and so this kind of fruit began first in Athens. Di-dymtts also faith, that if the Myrtle-tree be often watered with warm liquor, itwill yeeld berries without any stones or kernels within. Theophraftm fbewethyetanother way whereby this may be effected ; take, faith fie, the filth or (havings ofskins, and put them in Urine, and so lay them about the root of the Myrtle-treeat such time as the buds begin to shew themselves, and so (hall you have berriesthat have either none at all, or else very small kernels in them.Likewife the Pome-granate may be produced without any kernels within it, if you lay good store ofSwines-dung about the root of thePomegranate-tree.

Chap. XIII.

How fruit may he produced without any outward rines or ft els .

T He very fame helps and devices which we prescribed for the producing of fruitswithout their inner kernel, we may likewise use in the practice of producingNuts, & such like fruits as are wont to grow in (hells and rines, that they may grownaked as it were without any fhel at all. And first this may be effected by taking awaythe pith out of the plants that bear them so.

A T^ut -without a jhell ,

may be produced, as Damageron teacheth. If you bore a hole quite thorough theNut-tree, and put into it a stake of Elm to fill it up, you (hall thereby stop thepith from ascending into the upper parts, and so no (hells can grow because it isthe pith only that causeth them. Talladm counlelleth you to bore the hole throughthe root, and stop it up with a stake of box, or some wedge made of iron, or of cop-per. But Theophrastus(hcwcih )how to procure

Almonds and (shift-nuts with a soft shell ,

and this is by skill in dressing the Trees. If you would soften and alter the fruit, wemust apply the root with Swins-dung: for this is a very forcible worker; likewiseoften digging will cause both the plants to prosper better, and the fruit to becomebetter aho: for the kernels will be smaller, in such fruit as have any stones inan d such fruit as grow in (hells or rines, as Almonds, and Chest-nucs,will have the softer shell without, and the larger kernel within: for the grea-ter store of nourishment there is applyed to the Tree, the moider it is, andthe substance of the fruit is so much the more encreased. But Tailsam would perswade us, that if we rid away the earth from the rooter