A Designe for plentie, by an universall planting of fruit-trees: tendred by some wel-wishers to the publick.
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A Designe for plentie, by an universall planting of fruit-trees: tendred by some wel-wishers to the publick.
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London, :: Printed for Richard Wodenothe in Leaden-hall street, over against Leaden-hall.,
[1652?]
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Fruit trees -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Food supply -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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"A Designe for plentie, by an universall planting of fruit-trees: tendred by some wel-wishers to the publick." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A87187.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 17, 2024.
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Instructions concerning this Designe.
Although planting doth chiefly depend upon the blessing and providence of God, (without which no benefit can be expected) yet God who ordaineth the end, appointeth also the means conducible thereunto; not that men should rest in the means appointed, but that they waiting upon God in the use of meanes should expect his blessing thereupon of his grace and mercy: according to the saying,
Rest not in meanes, use meanes Gods gifts to gain;God gives the end, and meanes his ends t'attain.
Therefore we have thought good to set down for the help of such as are unskilfull in the noble Art of Planting, such necessary Instructions and Directions touching this Designe, as by experience have been found usefull and commodious for our Countrey of England, letting go those unprofitable conclusions wherewith many have filled their books of this Art of Planting, taken for the most part out of the writings
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and experiments of other Nations, as Italy, France and Spain, &c. which being of far different Climates from our Nation, however they may be usefull and effectuall unto others, are indeed altogether uselesse and in-effectuall unto us in England: for,
Each land the like alike will never yield,Clime alters much in Garden, Orchard, field,Leave France to French, and Spain to Spanish Sun;What England may is best to think upon.