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FRUIT-FARMING

LONDON: PRINTED BY

SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET

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'We have also large and various orchards and gardens, wherein we do not so much respect beauty as variety of ground and soil, proper for divers trees and herbs: and some very spacious where trees and berries are set, whereof we make divers kinds of drinks besides the vineyards. In these we practise likewise all conclusions of grafting and inoculating, as well of wild trees as of fruit trees.'— BACON'S New Atlantis.'

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'Good fruit and good plenty doth well in the loft;

Then make thee an orchard, and cherish it oft.'

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THOMAS TUSSER's Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.'

'Some, and not a few, even of the best have accounted it a chief part of earthly happiness to have fair and pleasant orchards, as in Hesperia and Thessaly. Now, all with one consent agree that it is the chief part of husbandry, (as Tully' De Senectute') and husbandry maintains the world.'-GERVASE MARKHAM'S The Way to Get Wealth.'

'I say that it is a great deficiency in England that we have no more orchards planted, and there is a great deficiency in the ordering of orchards in that they are not well pruned . . . . neither will ill husbands bestow dunging, digging, or any cost on orchards, which, if they did, might pay half their rents.'—HARTLIB's Legacy of Husbandry!'

'Wassail the trees that they may bear
You many a plum and many a pear,
For more or less fruits they will bring
As you do give them wassailing.'

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HERRICK'S Hesperides.'

'Next let the planter with discretion meet,
The force and genius of each soil explore;
To what adapted, what it shows averse.
Without this necessary care in vain
He hopes an apple vintage, and invokes
Pomona's aid in vain.'

PHILIPS Cider.

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