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der fruit. When the tops of the Fig-tree begin to be green with leaves, yon mustcut off the tops of the boughs with an iron tool; and still as the leaves begin to budforth, you must take red chalk, and blend it with Lees of oyle and mans dung,and therewithal cover the roots of the Tree: and by this means, the Tree willbear more store ok fruit, andsocsides the fruit will be a fuller and better fruit, li-ny and Palladimiccotd the fame experiment out of the fame Author. When theFig-tree begins to Ihivv her leaves; if yon would have ityeeld you more and bet-ter fruit, you must cut off the very tops of them when the bud begins to shew itself; or, if not so, yet you must before at the least to cutoff that top which grow-eth out of the midst of the Tree. ‘Falladitu writes, that some have reported,that the

Mulberry- tree will bear more and better fruity

if you bore thorough the stock of the Tree in divers places, and into every holebeat in a wedge; into some of the holes, wedges made of the Turpencine-trce-,and into some of them, wedges made of the Mastick-tree. ‘Didymut faiththat

The TPalmy or Date-tree , and the Damofin tree will grew to be os a larger and good-lier ajfiz^ey

if you take the Lees of old Wine, and after you have strained them, water theroots therewith. And he faith, that it will cake the better effect, if you cast up-on it a little fait ever now and then. So

The Myrtle-tree will have a goodlier leafy

and also yield a better fruir, if you plant it among Roses: for the Myrtle-tree de-lightech to be consorted with the Rose, and thereby becomes more fruitful, as Z5i-djmui reporteth. So

%jte will grow tenderer , and more flourijhingy

if it be engrafted into a Fig-tree: you must only set k into the bark somewhat neerthe root, that you may cover it with the earth, and so you shall have excellent goodRue. Plmark_ in his Symponakes, commends no Rue but that only which grow*very neer the Fig-tree. Aristotle in his Problems, demanding the cause of this, aclength concludes, that there is such a sympathy and agreement betwixt the Fig-treeand the herb Rue, that Rue never grows so fast, nor flourishes so well, as when icgrows under the Fig-tree. If you would have

Artichochs grow without sharp pricklesy

Varro faith, that you must take the Artichock-feed, and rub it upon a stone, till youhave worn it blunt at the top. You may cause also

Lctticc to grow tenderer and more spreading

, as Palladipu shews, and Columella. Palladim faith, that if yourLettice be somewhathard, by reason of some fault either in the feed, or place, or season, you must pluckit cut of the earth and let it again, and thereby it will wax more tender, f'olumellashews, how you may make it spread broader. Take a little tile-sheard , and layit npon the middle of the Lett ice when it is a little grown up ; and the burden orweight of the tile-sheard will make it spread very broad. Pliny faith, that it ismeet also to besmear the roots with dung when they set them, and as they growup, to rid away their own earth from them, and r© fill up the place with muck.Florentirnts faith, when you have a Lettice growing that hath been transplanted,you must rid away the earth from the root after ic is grown to be a handful long,andthen besmear it with some fresh Oxe-dung, and then having cast in earth upon it »-gain, water it; and still as the bud or lease appears out of the earth, cut it off tillit grow up stronger, and then lay upon it a tile-sheard that hath never been season-ed with any pitch, and so you shall have your purpose. By the like device you mayprocure