The history of the propagation & improvement of vegetables by the concurrence of arts and nature ... Written according to observations made from experience and practice / By Robert Sharrock.

  • Robert Sharrock
Date:
1672
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Credit: The history of the propagation & improvement of vegetables by the concurrence of arts and nature ... Written according to observations made from experience and practice / By Robert Sharrock. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( For what other end, thought I, are there 4-93 fo many coats, and. fuch cotten veltment to BD o-°, feeds, but to defend their tendernefs ? Why mi $595 Fr ch hard {tones to others,but to hinder their p Stor ~ premature {pringing, whereby the coldnefs | of winter would kill (as in Aprecots, Peaches, Neftarines, &¢..) their tender feedlings? Why is the ground in Woods covered with Mofs, but that Nature intended it.as a prefervation ro Seeds fallen upon the Turf in the violence of Winter Frofts? Why has Nature befet fhrubs with prickles, but to defend the tender buds in which the hope of future growth Is repofed from the browfing of Cattle in the Winter? and that this was the end of Provi- | dence init, may be conjectured from hence, becaute thofe fhrubs which are not allover || thorny, havea guard of Thorns dire&ly upon — the bud, and not elfewhere, as if fingularly | intended for its fecurity. So tis {een in the | Goofe-berry, Hawthorn, Barbery, Locutt, all | Rofes wildand cultivated,that are not all over | thorny, fo that the thorns are not ufelefs ex- crefcencies as fome have fuppofed,but as pro> | fitable as boughs or leaves.) | ale (Why have thofe Plants that bear no Seed | YY? withus, as Poplar and Willow, inevery bough | ofany,bignefs, a propenfity of fending forth | Roots, by the occafion of which, each branch is madean entire Tree of Plant? or if that fa- culty be wanting, why then is there fo great difpofition and forwardnefs to prone] rhem- |