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A54994Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552- 1611?
A54994Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552- 1611?
A28676Peradventure you may object, that the earth which you take from beneath, will be barren?
A28676You will object( I suppose) that to trench and dresse a whole Garden in this manner is to engage one into an extraordinary expence?
A28337Canst thou behold any building or artificial work so rare, But presently conclude that the band of an Artificer was there?
A28337Canst thou see the Earth so great, the Firmament so wide, The Ocean Seas how they ebb and flow by time and tide?
A28337First, I must make some queries, what is meant by a double stock, whether the double and single are two distinct kinds or no?
A28337Secondly, They say, that all things come by the course of Nature: True, But by whom had Nature its beginning?
A58064And since to any shape, with ease, they yield, What bound''s more proper to divide a field?
A58064Bigorre her metals shows?
A58064But what should I these haughty Springs repeat?
A58064But why should I repeat how many ways In the deep Caves Art with the water plays?
A58064But why should I such great examples name?
A58064But, what the Romans did, why should I tell Whose arms on trees as well as nations fell?
A58064First edition in English?
A58064From all your Garden first a place divide, There let the hopeful race be multiplied?
A58064If Burdeaux cattel breeds?
A58064In all such enterprizes ruine lurks; Who have not sunk themselves in Water- works?
A58064Or if with Orchards Normandy be crown''d?
A58064Or the immense Canale, with waves repleat?
A58064The God and youth at once appalled stood?
A58064The violated Laws, the broken faith, And Nations guilty of their Sov''rains death?
A58064Though Bearn be woody?
A58064Though Beausse her corn?
A58064Though her endeavours Aquaeducts have made, And murmuring streams on hollow bridges laid?
A58064Troys with wine o''reflows?
A58064What alterations, in the calmer air?
A58064What greater happiness can be desir''d, Then what by these diversions is acquir''d?
A58064What if Burgundian Hills with vines abound?
A58064What if illustrious Medicea calls Arcolian Springs to the Parisian walls?
A58064What need of drugs?
A58064Who could be so unkind as to perswade, I should for th''Town forsake my Countreyshade?
A58064Why or their taste should I relate, or hue, Which more illustrious by its purple grew?
A58064voice, Be understood amidst so great a noise?
A58064what use of Medicine?
A05195And if fruit- trees l ● st to this age, how many ages is it to be supposed, st ● ong and huge timber- trees will last?
A05195And what hurt, if that part of the tree, that before was sh ● dowed, be now made partaker of the heat of the Su ● n?
A05195And what other things is a vineyard, in those countries where vines doe thriue, than a large Orchard of trees bearing fruit?
A05195And where see we greater trees of bu ● ke and bough, then standing on or neere the waters side?
A05195And where, or when, did you euer see a great tree packt on a wall?
A05195And who can deny, but the principall end of an Orchard, is the honest delight of one wearied with the works of his lawfull calling?
A05195But what hath shortned them?
A05195But why do I wander out of the compasse of mine Orchard, into the Forrests and Woods?
A05195Can there be deuised any way by nature, or art, sooner or soundlier to seeke out, and take away the heart and strength of earth, then by great trees?
A05195For who is able to manure an whole Orchard plot, if it be barren?
A05195How many apples would there haue borne?
A05195If you aske me what vse shall be made of that waste ground betwixt tree and tree?
A05195If you aske why the plaines in Holderns, and such countries are destitute of woods?
A05195Let all grow, and they will bea ● e more fruit: and if ● oulop away su ● erfluous boughts, they say, what a pitty is this?
A05195Nay, who did euer know a tree so vnkindly splat, come to age?
A05195Or what difference is there in the iuice of the Grape, and our Cyder& Perry, but the goodnes of the soile& clime where they grow?
A05195See you here an whole Army of mischeifes banded in troupes against the most fruitfull trees the earth beares?
A05195The Monkish Prouerbe is tritum: Cur moritur homo, cum saluia crescit in horto?
A05195The gods of the earth, resembling the great God of heauen in authority, Maiestie, and abundance of all things, wherein is their most delight?
A05195What else are trees in comparison with the earth: but as haires to the body of a man?
A05195What is there of all these few that I haue reckoned, which doth not please the eye, the eare, the smell, and taste?
A05195What liuing body haue you greater then of trees?
A05195What more delightsome then an infinite variety of sweet smelling flowers?
A05195What shall I say?
A05195What was Paradise?
A05195but a Garden and Orchard of trees and hearbs, full of pleasure?
A05195but into their Or ● hards?
A05195whither?
A38811A Tree being 136 Inches about, and 9 Foot in length, to know how many solid Feet the Tree contains?
A38811A skillful Planter should therefore be early at this Work: Shall old Gratius give you Reason and Direction?
A38811And shall men doubt to Plant, and careful be?
A38811But here some may inquire what distances I would generally assign to Transplanted Trees?
A38811But shall I provoke you by an instance?
A38811But what if a little culture about the Roots( not dunging, which it abhors) and frequent stirring of the mould doubles its growth?
A38811But why do we thus neglect the Arbutus, and make that such a rarity, which grows so common, and so naturally in Ireland?
A38811But would you yet improve the Standard which I celebrate, to greater and more speedy exaltation?
A38811Et dabitant homines serere, atque impendere curam?
A38811FAre age quid causae est quod tu Sylvestria pangis, Inter Sylvanos, capripedesque Deos?
A38811He proceeds, What else are Trees in comparison with the Earth, but as hairs to the body of Man?
A38811If all Timber- trees were such( will some say) how should we have crooked wood for Wheels, Coorbs,& c?
A38811Now possibly I might be asked why I did not, since I kept it so close in the Vat, put it at first into the Vessel?
A38811Or as the sweet Papinius, Fame goes that thou brake forth from the hard rind, When the new earth with the first feet was sign''d?
A38811Quid Foliorum describam diversitates?
A38811Quid majora sequ ● r?
A38811The Cedar?
A38811They came afterwards indeed to be abus''d to Superstition, but what good, or indifferent thing has not been subject to perversion?
A38811Tot veneficiis placere cogitur,& miramur noxium esse Vinum?
A38811What became of Agamemnon''s Host after his Spoyl of the Woods at Aulis?
A38811What though your Ground long time must fallow ly, And Se ● dling- Oakes yield but a slow supply?
A38811What would we more?
A38811Why Fruits being cut off from the Tree, weigh heavier, than when they were growing?
A38811and are not five thousand Oaks worth the fencing, and the inspection of a Hayward?
A38811and that so dry, so feeble and wretched a branch as that which bears the Grape, should yield a Juice that Cheers both God and Man?
A38811and what is novv more easie, than Compounding for such a license?
A38811and whether it rise in like quantity upon comparing the incisures?
A38811as through a Willow, whose Body it has been observed to penetrate even to the Earth?
A38811but where shall we find the spirits among our Countrymen?
A38811curtail''d trunks?
A38811drouping boughs: and dying branches shall you see every where?
A38811for who could have spoken lesse upon so ample a Subject?
A38811the vulgar) should yield them more profit, then a like quantity of the best Wheat land of England?
A38811what dead arms?
A38811what hollownesse?
A38811what loads of Mosse?
A38811what rottennesse?
A38811wither''d tops?
A49578& c. Who is there not charmed with them, and particularly with those which ripen in the open Air?
A49578And Fifthly, Whether they should be Dung''d in all manner of Earths, whether good or bad?
A49578And consequently are not such things as as lie to the South, as liable to be kept moist, as those that lie towards the North?
A49578And did not the Old Hypothesis go altogether as far in searching out the first Workings of Providence?
A49578And first, what Trees not proper, and why?
A49578And indeed the Ground so tilled, did it not consist of true Fruit and Kitchin- Gardens?
A49578And indeed who ever saw a Prunier de Perdrigon, or a Bigarotier grow from the Stones of the Fruit?
A49578And is it not as usual for Rains to come from the South, as from the North?
A49578And now what Convincing Arguments does this Comparison bring along with it?
A49578And then Pray, what New Discoveries has this Philosophy made towards finding out of the Nature of Individual Beings?
A49578Are not all Mens Souls of the same Immaterial Substance, and equally Perfect in themselves?
A49578As for the Messira- John, whether it be White or Grey( for they are both but the same sort) who is there that knows it not?
A49578But above all, who can express the great satisfaction Gentlemen receive, who have made it their business to Graff in their Gardens?
A49578But then to balance these few good Authors, what a multitude of other Books have we to exclaim against, with which we are overwhelmed?
A49578Can any thing be more irreconcileable than these two effects of Sap so contrary one to another?
A49578Can there be seen a more excellent Fruit during the Months of September and October, and sometimes till the end of November?
A49578Does the Bulb force it back again?
A49578First, Whether Particles thus brought in, have Pores or not?
A49578First, Whether they mean all manner of Trees?
A49578Fourthly, Supposing those Pores always open, I wou''d know whether they have any thing within, or Nothing?
A49578Fourthly, Whether they have a certain Rule for the quantity of Dung that is to be allow''d to each, and for the place where it is to be laid?
A49578Have we a mind to have it upon a Wall- tree?
A49578How then is it possible to reduce to one Maxim this inconsistency of Nature in chusing such different Situations for the Production of Fruit?
A49578I would also further know, Whether one sort of Wood be more Porous than another?
A49578If the Pipes of an Organ, or any other Instrument, be not good and well made, to what purpose is it to put them into the most Skillful Musicians Hand?
A49578Is it not usual in most Places to see People continually Imploy''d in doing, undoing, and doing again?
A49578It will give Content: Or, is our Fancy to Plant it in form of a Dwarf- tree?
A49578Moreover, in what place shall that Dung be plac''d, shall it be near the Stem or Foot, or at a distance from it?
A49578Now if all Roots be equally Porous, how comes it that some Act more vigorously than others?
A49578Now who is it that can solve the Difficulty how this Transposition is brought to pass?
A49578Or does it by a sort of Leger de main in its Ascent, penetrate the sides of the Bulb?
A49578Pray, Is not Cold as apt to close, and harden, and strengthen any thing as Heat?
A49578Se ● l quid ego''hicc autem?
A49578Secondly, Whether only Fruit- Trees?
A49578Secondly, Whether the Pores are all first Form''d before the Seed is Set, or whether they are afterwards made by the Heat of the Bed?
A49578Shall feeble Fruits and Trees, Deny Obedience to his great Decrees?
A49578The Jacinth, the Tulip, the Anemone, the Ranimculus, and so many other Flowers, with what Glories do they not adorn the Gardens where they are?
A49578Thirdly, Whether, if those Fruit- Trees, they mean all of them in General, to preserve such as are Vigorous and re- establish those that are Infirm?
A49578Whence spring the Beauties that adorn your field?
A49578Whether they are all made at once, and separated afterwards, or whether the first have a Power of making others as occasion shall require?
A49578a Fig, or Mulberry- Tree from the Seed, a Bon- Chrestien, or Bergamotte from the Kernels of such Pears?
A49578— I can not know, for Instance, How, by what, where, and when are all those Pores made?