Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1718 edition. Excerpt: ... to issue either from the Surface or Bowels of the Earth, adequate to the meanest artificial Fire, and that consequently 'tis not subterraneous Fires that are any-ways concerned in Vegetation or the Growth of Plants5 but that the Sun is the Principle, and therefore, by way of Analogy, calFd the Father, and the Earth the Mother, while the Rain and Air are necessary Co-eflicients in this surprizing Work. TheVsesof And from this plain Essay, may be gatherthu Ejsay. ecj fa Ximes and Seasons when Nature wants our Assistance; for 'tis in Gardening, doubtless, as in any other cafe where Persons never execute a Precept willingly, without they know the Reason why, and the immediate Danger, that attpnd the Neglect. To apply it particularly to this: The J Gardener that does not know that if he r encr# covers not the Foot of his new-planted Tree very deep, in March, or in the Extremity of Winter, he endangers the Loss of it by the piercing Winds, is doubtless not very soli citous about the doing it, let his Commands be what they will. And indeed, this is what is not much consider'd or known amongst too many, to the great Disadvantage of all newplanted Plantations-And with this I (hall conclude what I had to fay as to the Progress of Roots in the Ground, and the Ascension of Sap in the Growth, Procerity, and Fertility of Trees, What becomes of this Sap in the Winter, Concerning and how the Tree is dispos'd for its next J Year's Work, shall next be enquir'd into. 'intothe It has been the common, and, withoutKootu doubt, the erroneous Opinion of the ancient, as well as some modern Philosophers, That at the Termination of the Year, the Sap descends into the Roots, and there lies dormant all the Winter, 'till the Heat of the Spring draws it up again v..