ux Natural Magick.

Pomegranates hxng long upon their "frees ;

Some h* e wreathed and platted about the fruit the smaller boughs that grow hardby , that the rain may not come forcibly upon it to break it or chop it, for if it beonce bruised, or that it do but gape and have any chops in it, it will soon perish: andwhen they have so done, they tye them fast to the stronger boughs, that they maynot be shaken ; and then they bind the Tree about with a kind of broom withes,that the Daw;, or Crows, or ot her birds may not come at the fruit to gnaw it.Some do frame earthen cafes fit for the fruit, and cover the fame with strawiemor*ter, and let the fruit hang still upon the Tree in them. Others do wrap up everyone of the Pomegranates in hay or holm, and then daube it thick over withmor-ter which hath chopt straw in ir, and so fasten them to the stronger boughes, thatthe winde may not shake them. But all these practises must be used when the wea-ther is fair, and there is neither rain nor dew stirring, as CelumeUt teachetb. But^<»«auseth this means to make them stay long on their Tree. He takes the blos-soms of the Tree when they begin to wither, and wraps in them every Pomegra-nate by it self, and then binds them about with bonds ; thereby preventing theirputrefaction, and their chawns and chops which otherwise would be in them. O-tbers put them in earthen pots every one by it self, and cover them well, and fettlethem fast, that they may not be broken by knocking against the stock or arms ofthe Tree, nor by hitting one against the other: for by this means yon shall havethem alwayes better grown then by any other. Varro faith, that if you take Pome-granates before they be ripe, as they stick upon their stalks, and put them into abottomless pot, and cover them, boughs and all, in the ground, so that no windemay come at them, you shall not only finde them whole when you take them out,but they will be greater also then if they had hung still upon the Tree. Palla-dim shews,

Citrons may be preserved upon the free ;

even by (hutting them up in certain earthen vessels fir for such a purpose; for so youmay keep them upon their Tree almost all the year long. If you would have

Grapes hang Upon the Vtne^ frejh and good) e'VenttU the Spring of thejear tBerititu prescribes you this course. You must dig a pit in a very shadowy place neerto the Vines, about a yard deep, and fill it up with sand , and set up some propsin it: then you must loosen the joints of the Vine-branches, and winde them in to-gether with the clusters of grapes to be tied to the props, and then cover them,that NO water may come at them. You must take heed also that the grapes do nottouch the ground. A thing which I have oft-times put in practise, but it sell notout to my expectation: for still the grapes were half rotten, and iheir colour quitefaded. (folumella faith, There is no surer way then to prepare certain earthen vesselswhich may hold each of them a cluster of grapes, so that they may have scope e-nou:h ; and they must have every one four handles, whereby they may be tied tothe Vine, ayd their lids or coverings must be so framed that the middle maybe theplace of closing, where both sides of the cover may fall close rogether when the clu-sters are in, and so meeting may hide the grapes. But you must fee that both thevessels themselves, and also their coverings be well pitched both within and with-out ; for the pitch will do good service herein. When you have thus covered andssuc up your grapes , then you must lay good florets morter with straw chopt in icupon the vessels. But in any cafe, look that the grapes be so placed in the vessels,that they touch no part thereof. Tarentinus gives this counsel. The clusters thatfirst grow, you must pluck tff, and then others will come up in their steads, if youlook carefully to the Vine: now these later clusters will be very backward and longere they be ripe: take some earthen vessels, and let them be somewhat open be-low put into them your later dusters, and let the upper part of them be very closecovered, and then bind your vessels fast unto the Vine, that so the wind may notshake them. Paiaditu faith ; If you be desirous co keep grapes upon the Vine till