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A New Orchard And Garden: or, The best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich Orchard: Particularly in the North and generally for the whole kingdome of EnglandLawson, William, active 1618

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A New Orchard And Garden: or, The best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich Orchard: Particularly in the North and generally for the whole kingdome of England

Name: A New Orchard And Garden: or, The best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich Orchard: Particularly in the North and generally for the whole kingdome of England
Author: Lawson, William, active 1618

Lawson, William, active 1618

Fruit-culture -- Great Britain; Gardening -- Early works to 1800

{SN: Remedy.}
The remedy is, if you find him before he be perished, cut him close, as
in the 11. Chapter: if he be hoald, cut him close, fill his wound, tho
neuer so deepe, with morter well tempered & so close at the top his
wound with a Seare-cloth doubled and nailed on, that no aire nor raine
approach his wound. If he be not very old, and detaining, he will
recouer, and the hole being closed, his wound within shall not hurt him
for many yeeres.

{SN: Hurts on trees.}
{SN: Ants, Earewigs, Caterpillars, and such like wormes.}
Hurts on your trees are chiefly Ants, Earewigs, and Caterpillars. Of
Ants and Earewigs is said Chap. 10. Let there be no swarme of Pismires
neere your tree-root, no not in your Orchard, turne them ouer in a
frost, and powre in water, and you kill them.

For Caterpillars, the vigilant Fruterer shall soone espy their lodging
by their web, or the decay of leaues eaten around about them. And being
seene, they are easily destroyed with your hand, or rather (if your tree
may spare it) take sprig and all: for the red peckled butterfly doth
euer put them, being her sparm, among the tender spraies for better
feeding, especially in drought, and tread them vnder your feet. I like
nothing of smoke among my trees. Vnnaturall heates are nothing good for
naturall trees. This for diseases of particular trees.

{SN: Externall euils.}
Externall hurts are either things naturall or artificiall. Naturall
things, externally hurting Orchards.

  1 Beasts.  1 Deere.      2 Birds.   1 Bulfinch.
             2 Goates.                2 Thrush.
             3 Sheepe.                3 Blackbird.
             4 Hare.                  4 Crow.
             5 Cony.                  5 Pye.
             6 Cattell.
             7 Horse.                   &c.

             _The other things are_,
                 1 Winds.
                 2 Cold.
                 3 Trees.
                 4 Weeds.
                 5 Wormes.
                 6 Mowles.
                 7 Filth.
                 8 Poysonfull smoke.

             _Externall wilfull euils are these._
                 1 Walls.
                 2 Trenches.
                 3 Other works noisome done in or neere your Orchard.
                 4 Euill Neighbours.
                 5 A carelesse Master.
                 6 An vndiscreet, negligent or no keeper.

See you here an whole Army of mischeifes banded in troupes against the
most fruitfull trees the earth beares? assailing your good labours. Good
things haue most enemies.

{SN: Remedy.}
A skilfull Fructerer must put so his helping hand, and disband and put
them to flight.

{SN: Deere, &c.}
For the first ranke of beasts, besides your out strong fence, you must
haue a faire and swift Greyhound, a stone-bow, gun, and if need require,
an Apple with an hooke for a Deere, and an Hare-pipe for an Hare.

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A New Orchard And Garden: or, The best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich Orchard: Particularly in the North and generally for the whole kingdome of England

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