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A54994	The Garden of Eden, or, An accurate description of all flowers and fruits now growing in England with particular rules how to advance their nature and growth, as well in seeds and herbs, as the secret ordering of trees and plants / by that learned and great observer, Sir Hugh Plat.	Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1611?; Bellingham, Charles.	1654 (1654)	Wing P2386; ESTC R33966	42,529	183

the heads of the main runners for then your pompions will prove but dwindlings 23. In winter time raise little hills about your Artichokes close to the leaves because they are tender and if any extream frosts should happen they might otherwise be in danger to perish 23. If you cut away the old branches of a Muskerose leaving onely the shoots of the next year to bear these shootes will bring forth musk roses the next year but after all other musk-rose trees By Mr. Hill 25. The roots of every tree and plant are most full of sap when their tops or heads are most green and flourishing and when the bark of the Tree will pill and loosen from the body then will the rind also loosen from the root and when the tops begin to wither or stand at a stay then doe the rootes likewise And therefore that common opinion that rootes are best and of most force in Winter is erroneous So as if I should gather any roots for the use of Physick or Surgery I would gather them either at their first putting forth of leaves or else between their first springing the springing up of their branches when they begin to encline towards their flowring By A. H. 26. If every evening you lay a great colewort or cabbage leaf upon the top of every Artichoke this will defend the apple from the violence of the frost By Goodman the Gardiner 27. A branch of Box or Rosemary will carry their leaves gilded a long time fair notwithstanding the violence of rain if you first moisten the leaves with the gum of Mastick first dissolved in a hard egge according to art and leafe-gold presently laid thereon Do this in a Summers day when all the dew is ascended and when the Sun being hot may presently harden the Mastick and so bind down the gold fast unto it Quaere if Myrrhe and Benjamin will not do the like dissolved as before 28. Make gum water as strong as for Inke but make it with Rose-water then wet any growing flower therewith about ten of the clock in a hot Summers day and when the Sun shineth bright bending the flower so as you may dip it all over therein and then shake the flower well or else you may wet the flower with a soft callaver pensill then strew the fine searced powder of double refined sugar upon it do this with a little box or searce whose bottom consisteth of an open lawn having also a cover on the top holding a paper under each flower to receive the sugar that falleth by and in three houres it will candy or harden upon it so you may bid your friends after dinner to a growing banquet or else you maycut off these ers so prepared and dry them after in dishes two or three dayes in the sun or by a fire or in a stove and so they will last six or eight weeks happily longer if they be kept in a place where the gum may not relent You may doe this also in Balme Sage or Borrage as they grow 29. I hold it for a most delicate and pleasing thing to have a fair Gallery great Chamber or other lodging that openeth fully upon the East or West sun to be inwardly garnished with sweet Hearbs and Flowers yea and Fruit if it were possible For the performance whereof I have thought of these courses following First you may have faire sweet marjerom basil carnation or rose-mary pots c. to stand loosely upon faire shelves which pots you may let down at your pleasure in apt frames with a pulley from your Chamber window into your Garden or you may place them upon shelves made without the room there to receive the warme sun or temperate raine at your pleasure now and then when you see cause In every window you may make square frames either of lead or of bords well pitched within fill them with some rich earth and plant such flowers or hearbs therein as you like best if hearbs you may keep them in the shape of green borders or other forms And if you plant them with Rosemary you may maintain the same running up the transumes and movels of your windowes And in the shady places of the room you may prove if such shady plants as do grow abroad out of the Sun will not also grow there as sweet Bryars Bayes Germander c. But you must often set open your Casements especially in the day time which would be also many in number because flowers delight and prosper best in the open aire You may also hang in the roof and about the sides of this room small pompions or Cowcombers pricked full of Barley first making holes for the Barley quaere what other seeds or flowers will grow in them and these will be overgrown with green spires so as the Pompion or Cowcomber will not appear And these are Italian fancies hung up in their rooms to keep the flies from their Pictures in Summer time your chimny may be trimed with a fine bank of moss which may be wrought in works being placed in earth or with Orpin or the white flower called Everlasting And at either end and in the middest place one of your flower or Rosemary pots which you may once a week or once every fortnight expose now and then to the sunne and rain if they will not grow by watering them with raiue water or else from platformes of lead over your windows raine may descend by smal pipes and so be conveyed to the roots of your hearbs or flowers that grow in your windowes These pipes would have holes in the sides for so much of them as is within the earth and also holes in the bottome to let out the water when you please in great showers And if you back the borders growing in your windowes with loose frames to take off and on within the inside of your windows the Sun will reflect very strongly from them upon your flowers and hearbs You may also plant Vines without the walls which being let in at some quarrels may run about the sides of your windows and all over the sealing of your rooms So may you do with Apricot trees or other Plum trees spreading them against the sides of your windowes I would have all the pots wherein any hearbs or flowers are planted to have large loose squares in the sides and the bottoms so made as they might be taken out at ones pleasure and fastned by little holes with wiers unto their pots thereby to give fresh earth when need is to the roots and to remove the old and spent earth and so in your windowes See more of this in Numb. 30. 30. To have Roses or Carnations growing in Winter place them in a Room that may some way be kept warm either with a dry fire or with the steam of hot water conveyed by a pipe fastened to the cover of a pot that is kept seething over

some idle fire now and then exposing them in a warm day from twelve to two in the Sun or to the rain if it happen to rain or if it rain not in convenient time set your pots having holes in the bottom in pans of rain water so moisten the roots I have known Master Jacob of the Glassehouse to have Carnations all the winter by the benefit of a room that was neare his glasse house fire and I my self by nipping off the branches of Carnations when they began first to spire so preventing the first bearing have had flowers in Lent by keeping the pots all night in a close room and exposing them to the Sun in the day time out at the windowes when the wather was temperate this may be added to the Garden mentioned Nu. 20. to grace it in winter if the roome stand conveniently for the purpose 31. You shall oftentimes preserve the life of a Carnation or Gilliflower growing in a pot that is almost dead and withered by breaking out the bottom of the pot and covering the pot in good earth also the old stalks that spring from the roots but every third or fourth year it is good to slip and new set them 32. If you make an Orchard of dwarf-Trees suffering none of them to grow above a yard high then may you strain course Canvas over your Trees in the blooming time especially in the nights and cold mornings to defend them from the frosts And this Canvas being such as Painters use may after be sold with the losse onely of a penny upon the ell You may use it onely for Apricots and such like rare fruit whose blossoms are tender or else to backward them after they be knit if you would have them to beare late when all other Trees of that kind have done bearing In this dwarf Orchard I would have the walks between the Trees either pavedwith brick or graveled and the gravel born up with bricks that the sun might make a strong reflection upon the Trees to make them bear the sooner And to bring forth the better digested fruit I would also have the plot so chosen out that all easterly and northerly winds may be avoided by some defence I would have it but a small Orchard and if it were walled in it were so much the better Help this Orchard with the best artificial earths and waters that are I think a Vineyard may thus be planted to bring forth a full rich and ripe Grape or if you could happen upon a square pit of a yard deep whose banks are sloaping whose earth have been philosophically prepared as before Num. 10. that your Trees were bound sloaping to the sides of your Orchard and backed with boards or lead for reflexion that so your trees would prosper and beare most excellent fruit And to keep your Trees low when your stock is at such height as you would have it nip off all the green bunds when they come first forth which you finde in the top of the Tree with your fingers and so as often as any appeare in the top nip them off and so they will spread but nor grow tall even as by nipping off the side buds onely you may make your Tree to grow streight and tall without spreading till you see cause And thus with your fingers onely and vvithout any toole you may keep your young Trees grovving in what form you please 33. To have early fruit you must have an especial care to plant or graffe such fruits as are the earliest of all other and then adde all artificial helps thereto 34. Two quarts of Oxebloud or Horse bloud for want thereof tempered with a hat full of Pidgeons dung or so much as will make it up into a soft paste is a most excellent substance to apply to the principal roots of any large tree fastening the same about them after the root of the Tree hath taken ayr a few dayes first by lying bare and it will recover a Tree that is almost dead and so likewise of a Vine For this will make a decaying Tree or Vine to put forth both blossoms and fruits afresh This must be done to the Tree about the midst of February but apply it to the Vine about the 3d or 4th of March This is of M. Nicholson Gardiner 35. Get a load or two of fresh Horse dung such as is not above 8. or 10. dayes old or not exceeding fourteen lay it on a heap till it have gotten a great heat then make a bed thereof an ell long and half a yard broad and eighteen inches high in some sunny place treading every Lay down very hard as you lay it then lay thereon three inches thick of fine black sifted mold prick in at every three or four inches distance a Muske mellon seed which hath first bin steeped twenty four hours in Milk prick the top of your bed full of little forks of wood appearing some four or five inches above ground upon these forks lay sticks and upon the sticks so much straw in thicknesse as may both keep out a reasonable showre of rain and also the sun likewise defend the cold some strain canvas slopewise onely over their beds let your seeds rest so untill they appeare above ground which will commonly be in six or seven dayes You must watch them carefully when they first appeare for then you must give them an howers sunne in the morning and another in the afternoon then shall you have them shoot an inch and a halfe by the next morning then strew more fine earth about each stalk of such plants as have shot highest like a little hill to keep the Sun from the stalks for if the Sun catch them they perish and therefore you shal often see the leaves fresh when the stalks wither Heighten your hills as you shall perceive the stalk to shoot higher and higher The plants must remain till they have gotten four leaves and then remove them taking up earth and dung together carefully about every root make a hole fit for every of them good ground placing them if the ground serve upon an high slope bank which lyeth aptly for the morning sun if you may let this bank be covered with field sand two inches thick all over except neare about the plants this ripeneth enlargeth the fruit greatly then cover each plant with a sugar pot gilliflower pot or such like having a hole in the bottom or else prick in two sticks acrosse archwise and upon them lay some great leaves to keep your plants from rain sun and cold After they have been planted a day or two you may give them two houres sun in the morning and two in the evening to bring them forward but till they have stood 14. dayes be sure to cover them from 12 to 4 in the afternoon every day and all night long These pots defend the cold and keep

but in any case cut not the green bark above it and then set it in the ground and it will grow to be a faire Tree in one yeare according to the length of the bough Quaere of watering the loam now and then Yet in reason me thinkes it a likelier course to clap a gilliflower pot made of purpose in two halfes with a great hole in the bottome about such an arme and after you have bound the pot well with wier then to fill it with good earth which you may better water in dry weather than you can do the lump of loam You may also use a twig no bigger than ones finger in the same manner Yet some do rather commend the binding of the loam or earthing the Tree with a pot about it without taking away any bark at all but only pricking many holes with a great aule in that part of the bark which is covered with the loam or earth You must remember to underprop the pot or else to hang it fast to the Tree Quaere if a branch must not root at a joynt 120. If you cut off the top or head of an Elme it will not leave rotting downward till it be hollow and doat within but an Oake will abide heading and not rot Also the boughs or branches of an Elme would be left a foot long next to the Trunk when you lop them This of an expert Carpenter 121. To avoid sappinesse fell both the bodies and the arms of Oaks and Elms in December after the frost hath well nipped them and so your saplings whereof rafters sparres c. are made will last as long as the heart of the Tree without having any sap By the same man 122. Take off a thin turfe of two foot round about each tree newly planted cover the same with Fearn Pease straw or such like a handfull thick water your Trees once a moneth if the weather prove dry with dung water or common water that hath stood in some open pit in the sun This keepeth the ground loose from baking whereby the Tree will prosper the better and put forth shoots of three and four foot in one year remember you do not set any Tree above one foot deep or little more give each Tree some props for the first yeare that the wind shake it not too much And yet some of good experience doe hold that it skilleth not how much a young tree be shaken so as it be not blown up by the roots and that it prospereth so much the better 123. Quinces growing a gainst a wall lying open to the sun and defended from cold windes eate most delicately This secret the Lord Darcy brought out of Italy quaere of all other Fruits 124. Set Peach stones in a dry ground where there is no water within three or four foot for this tree hath one root that will run deep into the ground and if it once getteth into the water the Tree dyeth The stone bringeth forth a kindly Peach Set Peach and Apricot stones in pots of earth within doors in February keep the earth moist by wat ring now then transplant them in March into your Orchard By S. 125. In the end of March gather the sap of the Trees within a foot of the ground but take off the first bark then slit the white bark overthwart wise even to the body of the Tree but slit onely that part of the bark which standeth South-west or between South West because little or no sap riseth from the North or North-east side After you have slit the Tree open the slit with your knife so as you may let in a leafe of a Tree first fitted to the breadth of the slit and from this the sap will drop as it doth in filtration Take away the leaf and the bark will close again earthing it with a little earth upon the slit By S. 126. Cut away all the idle shoots of the last year in your Apricot and Cherry Trees before Christmas some three weeks to make your fruit the fairer 127. If you would stay the sap of Trees from rising to make your Trees to blossom later thereby to avoid frosts in blooming time then hack crosse-wise viz. overthwart the Tree upon so much of the Tree as is within the ground even down to the root and then cover it again with earth Hack it very thick even thorough all the bark to the very Wood in the new Moone three weekes before Christmas if they be Apple trees pear trees or warden trees but for Apricots doe this rather in the full of the Moone next before Christmas but crosse hack your cherry trees and peach trees in the new moon next after Christmas and so you shall have your blossomes and by consequence your fruit come later then other mens doe because the sap cannot rise I thinke you must also hack the maine root Cuaere By S. 128. If you would make a tree in a short time to cast his leaves and thereby to bring forth young leaves which will last upon the tree fresh and green when all other Trees have lost their leaves then crosse hack the bark close to the wood about Midsomer In all the crosse hackings here mentioned let every of them be halfe an inch or thereabout distant one from another and every rank of hacks one inch above another or thereabout Also this practice to avoid the fall of the leafe must be done but every second yeare to any Tree for fear of destroying the same 129. But if in January or before the sap doe rise you hack the body long-wise and not overthwartly and that only thorough the first bark and no further this will make the bodies of your Trees to swell and burnish the better to maintain their heads or grafts 130. And if by overthwart hacking you would only kill the mosse of Trees then let your overthwart backs be thorow the bark even to the wood and this you must do between Alhallontide and S Andrews day viz. so soon as the leaves be off the Tree both to avoid mosse and to make barren Trees to bear You must make these hacks with the nether corner or point of a small hatchet so as every notch may be about half an inch long and hack the body the height of a man viz. one row of hacks two inches below one another all over the body but let there be a distance between the overthwart hacks so as they may not meet in a round ring like a circle about the tree and by this meanes the uppermost bark whereon the mosse grew will in time fall clean away and the mosse with it and the tree will gather a new bark And though the tree be thus hacked but to a mans height yet the tree will beare much better the next yeare But when your leisure serveth crosse-hack all the body in this manner even to the trunk as

his congelative part of raine water which he calleth the Vegetable salt of Nature wherein though he observed more then either Varro Columella or any of the ancient Writers in this kind did ever dream of yet doth he come many degrees short of this heavenly mystery Now to give you some taste of that fire which the Philosophers call the Stomach of the Ostrich without which the Philosophers true and perfect Aqua vitae can never be made you must understand that it is an outward fire of Nature which doth not onely keepe your Glasse and the matter therein contained in a true proportionable heat fit for workmanship without the helpe of any ordinary or material fire but it is also an efficient and principal cause by his powerful nature and pearcing quality to stir up alter and exalt that inward fire that is inclosed within the Glasse in his owne proper earth And therefore here all the usual Chymical fires with all their graduations are utterly secluded so as neither any naked fire nor the heat of filings of Iron of sand of ashes nor of Baln Mar. though kept in a most exquisite manner nor any of the fires engendered by putrefaction as of dung and such like no nor the heat of the Sun or of a Lamp or an Athanor the last refuge of our wandring and illiterate Alchymists have here any place at all So that by this fire and furnace onely a man may easily discern a mercenary workman if he deale in vegetables onely from a second Philosopher and if in any thing as no doubt in many things then here especially vulgaris oculus caligat plurimum This fire is by nature generally offered unto all and yet none but the children of Art have power to apprehend it for being coelestial it is not easily understood of an elemental braine and being too subtile for the sense of the Eye it is left onely to the search of a divine wit and there I leave it for this time The physical use of this fire is to divide a Coelum terrae and then to stellifie the same with any animall or vegetable star whereby in the end it may become a quintessence Here I had thought to have handled that crimson coloured salt of Nature so farre exceeding all other salts in a true quick and lively taste which is drawne from the Philosophers earth and worketh miraculous effects in mans body and withall to have examined that strange opinion which Doctor Quercitanus an excellent Theorist in Nature and a great Writer in these dayes doth violently maintaine in his discourse upon Salt-peter But because it is impertinent to this subject and that I have discoursed more at large thereon in my Abstract of Corn Agrip. his Booke De occult Philos. and for that Quercitanus doth shew himselfe to be a true Lover of Hermes Houshold I will not straine my wit to write against any particular person that professeth himselfe to be of that family although both he and some others as great as himselfe must give me leave whensoever I shall be forced in that Booke to handle the practical part of Nature and her processe happily to weaken some principles and positions which both he and they have already published excusing my selfe with that golden saying of Ar●isttle {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Amicus Socrates amicus Plato sed magis amica veritas But I am affraid I have been too bold with vulgar wits who take no pleasure to heare any man altius philosophari that they can well understand and therefore I have compiled this Book in plain termes of such a Garden and Orchard as will better serve for common use and fit their wits and conceits much better FINIS ●ooks printed or sold by William Leake at the signe of the Crown in Fleetstreet between the two Temple Gates A Bible of a faire large Roman letter 4o Tokt's Heraldy Man become guilty by Iohn Francis Senalt Englished by Henry Earl of Monmouth Welby's second Set of Musique 3 4 5 and 6 Paris The H●story of Vienna and Paris Callis learned Readings on the Stat. 21. H. 8. cap. 5. of Sewers Sken ' de fignificatione Verba rum Posing of the Accidence Delaman's use of the Horizontall Quadrant Corderim in English Doctor Fulkis Meteors Nyes Gunnery Fireworks Gato Major with Annotat. Mel Helliconium by Alex. Riss Lizerillo de Tormes The Ideot in four books Aula Luck or the house of Light Topicks in the Laws of Engl Perkins on the Laws of Engl Wilkinsons Office of Sheriffs Parsons Law Mirrour of Justice The Fort Royall of Holy Scripture or a new Concordance by J. H A Tragedy written by the most learned Hug Grotius Called Chris●● Patiens and Englished by George Sands Solitary devotions with man in glory by the most Reverend and holy Father Anselm Archbishop of Canterbury Ex●●citatio Scholastica Mathernaticall Recreations with the Generall Horologicall Ring and double Horizontall Dyall by William O●ghtred PLAYES Hero and Leander The Wedding The Hallander Henry the Fourth Maids Tragedy King and no King Philaster The gratefull Servant The strange Discovery The Merchant of Venice Tempering the ground Fern to enrich ground Soot to enrich ground Shavings of horn to enrich ground Onyons Bay-salt Age of seeds Hearbs with great heads Choice of seeds Dung for potheabs To kill Snailes Roots made large Chusing of a Vine cutting Vine when to plant Young Vines to proine Bayes to plant Eldern to plant Leeks to grow great Lettice to sowe Lettice seed how to gather Lettice to grow great Purslane seed to gather Wood Strawberries into Gardens Watering of strawberries Roses grassed upon what stock Pompions to grow great Artichokes from frost See this in Numb. 26. 58. Musk rose to beare late Roots in their best strength Artichocks from frost 23 38. Flowers or leaves gilded and growing Quae●● of Isinglasse dissolved Flowers candied as they grow A Garden within doors Barly growing without earth Pots for flowers of a good fashion See this also Numb. 56. Roses or Carnations in winter Reviving of Carnations Orchard of dwarf trees Uineyard to plant Trees growing either high or lowe Early fruit Old trees recovered Vines recovered Ordering of the Musk-Mellon The shortest way is to buy plants and set them Pompions and Cowcumbers multiplied Mellons to growe great Earlie strawberries Roses to bear late and from frost Early Roses and Carnations Early Roses Carots parseneps and Turneps kept long Roses and flowers backward Quaere of doing thus after the rose is new budded Roots long and great Seeds to multiply Large Carots or parsneps A new planting of carnations wall-flowers stock gilliflowers Plants to carry far Branches to root To kill Wormes Rich mold When to set or sow One plant upon another or upon a tree Colour sent or taste of a flower altered Fence of fruit trees White-thorn hedge Carnation seed to gather Coleflow re seed to gather to plant Coleflower to bear late Divers carnations in one root Stately