Of the ProduBion of new Plants.

the cunning sleight whereby our ordinary Clove-gillislowers were first produced;for qucstionleste Gilliflowers do grow everywhere of themselves without any suchpleaiant smell ; and besides, they are of a smaller assize, and of their own kindesomewhat wilde. But it should teem, that Gardeners did by their industry andtrimming, bestow the smell of Cloves upon them, by steeping their feeds in Clove-wacer, or by suppling them with the oyle of Cloves,or else by sticking Cloves inthe roots of them, and to planting them. We may adde to these sleights anotherdevice,

How to make Garltck^grow that (hall mt smell ranks/ and unsavourily.

Sotion hath taught us the way. If, faith he, you do set Garlick, and pluck it up again*both, when the Moon is underneath the earth, it will not have any bad favour. AndJheophrasttu hath taught as a means

How we may procure Tspfes to yield a more odoriferous swell,namely, if you take Garlick, and plant it neer your Rose?.

Chap. XVII.

How to procurefruits to be sweeter and pleasant er for tasks.

THere are some trees, which cannot away with any scar, but if you cur their-stocknever so little, or make any other scar in them, presently the Air and the excrin-secal heat get in, and so the Trees perish; for the corruption will fall downward tothe root, and so make the Trees presently to wither and fade away. Now there areother Trees, which will abide not only a scar, but also to have their stock deft,and to be bored into; yea, and by this means too, they will bear fruit more plen-tifully; as doth the?cmegranate-tree,the Almond-tree, and the Apple-tree; ofall which there is very great use. The reason hereof is this: Their nature andkinde is, to receive so much nourishment as is sufficient for them, and to void awayhurtful and superfluous humours: for as those living creatures which sweat most, orhave some other issue in their bodies, are most healthful and wont to live longest;so when these Trees have a cut cr a scar in them whereby they sweat out, as it were,their hurtful and superfluous moisture, they do more easily digest that moisture whichis left behind within them - and the better that the moisture is digested, the sweeterand pleasamer is their juice. And besides, they will live, if the parts have anycontinuation at all, though it be never so little, only if they may but hang together:and therefore they will easily defend themselves from any harm that may happenunto them by the cutting or mangling of any of their parts. We will shew howto procure fruits that shall be sweter in taste then ordinarily their kind is wont toafford, first by engraffing, secondly by boring or cutting, and last of all by othermeans. And first, by engraffing we may procure

Cherries that (hall have in them the reh(h of Bayes,

Tor as we have shewed before,engraffing may amend those defects that are in plantsand endue them with better qualities: so that if you have any fruit that is loath-some, because it is too sweet, do but engraffe it into a bitter Tree, and there willbe such a medley , that your fruit shall have a very savoury relish. Pliny faith, thatif you engraffe a Cherry Upon a Bay-trce, you shall have Cherries thence growing,that will have the smatch of the Bay. Palladium faith the same, engr:ffe a Cherryupon a Bay.tree,and the fruit that grows thence, will have the relish of the Bay.Inmy time, there have been seen certain Cherries in Naples, which they calledBay-cherries, somewhat bitter, but yet pleasant withal; a most excellent kinde offruit, far better then any other cherries, of a very large assize, full of juice, of a verysanguine colour, that have a bitter-sweet taste, so that they are neither loathsomefor their overmuch sweetneffe, nor yet to be refused for their overmuch bicterncirSo likewise may be procured

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