spring vp and take root, yet you must let none but the fairest stand and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to
gra••t vpon in the place, and as for the rest, they would be pulled vp and remoued in∣to
some other place.
In what season soeuer it be that you set your stones, yet see to it, that the ground be
good, and digged verie deepe, but put much small dung amongst it, either alone, or
mingled with dust gathered out of the high waies, and see them three fingers within
the earth, and halfe a ••oot one from another, watering them three times euery mon••••••,
especially in Summer when it falleth out drie, and weed them once a moneth. Espe∣cially
see they be set in a faire soile, and open vpon the Sunne, if so be you would 〈◊〉〈◊〉
a well-••ed and pleasant-tasted fruit: for otherwise, if you set them in a shadowed place,
though it be of a good soyle, indeed the fruit may be faire to looke to, but 〈◊〉〈◊〉
ynough to eat. When the stones are set, and haue taken sooting, and are become 〈◊〉〈◊〉
what pre••ily fed, pull them vp about Aduent which you mind to transplant, and
breake off the points of their roots, and strip them of all their branches, before you
set them downe againe in their new appointed standing: and know, that a double re∣moue
doth make the wild to become free conditioned and better, bringing vnto them
great aduantage.
And as concerning particular properties belonging into euerie stone, and how it
must be set, it is to be knowne, that grosse Nuts, all manner of Peaches, wild Figge••,
Almonds, Che••nuts, small Abricots (but especially and most singularly well the bran∣ches)
becommeth free and reclaimed, being set of a stone, foreseene that they find as
good and as faire a soyle, as the trees enioy from whence the fruit of the said 〈◊〉〈◊〉
were taken.
The stone of the Peare-Plum-tree must be set in a cold place, a foot deepe in the
ground, the point downeward, euerie one a foot from another, and this in Nouem∣ber
in high places, and in Ianuarie in low places.
The stone of the Iu••ube tree must be set after the manner and fashion of the stone
of the Peare-plum-tree, but it is long and slow in growing out of the earth.
The stone of the plum-tree must be set a fat ground, a foot deepe, and that in No∣uember
and Februarie, and they are to be remoued the same time of the yea•••• making
their holes and pits neither too wide, nor too deepe.
The stones or nuts of the Pine-tree must be set in cold places, in Februarie and
March, or about the fall of the Pine-apple, or shortly after, in pits well digged and
of a good mould: the apple may not be broken by violence, or with any 〈…〉〈…〉
to get out the kernell, but you must attend till it be opened, and set vpon 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
And the Pine-nuts must be steeped three daies before you set them, and then
you must set seuen together. Some lay them in little baskets, and cut them when they
are sprung up. They need no remoue, but and if you do remoue them, you must look••
in the taking of them vp, that you hurt not the chiefe and principall roots.
Small nuts and plums of all sorts, peaches the small and great, and great abric••••••,
in whatsoeuer good ground and pleasant soyle their kernells be set, yet they grow not
altogether like vnto the fruit of their trees whereof they were gathered: and there∣fore
they delight rather to be grafted vpon their young stockes.
The stone of the Date, which bringeth forth the Date-tree, must be set the great 〈◊〉〈◊〉
downeward, two cubi•••• deepe in the earth, and in a place enriched with Goa••s 〈◊〉〈◊〉,
and the sharpe side vpward: it desireth to be watred daily, and that there should 〈◊〉〈◊〉
yeare be salt sowne about it, and withall it must be remoued.
The seeds of Limons, Citrons, Oranges, Assyrian Citrons, and such like, as 〈◊〉〈◊〉
bin said in the second Booke, must be prickt downe vpon beds well prepared & 〈◊〉〈◊〉
about the moneth of March, & the sharpest end downward, halfe a ••oot 〈◊〉〈◊〉 from
another, and a finger and a halfe deepe in the ground: they loue to be much 〈◊〉〈◊〉
after, when they are growne a foot high, remoue them to the foot of some wall, op••••
vpon the South: and in Winter, when the time is hoarie, couer and fauour th•••• in
such manner as wee haue spoken of in the second Booke. As much may be said of
Pomegranat kernels, and Bay-berries, as you may vnderstand by the second Booke.