A treatise of fruit-trees shewing the manner of grafting, setting, pruning, and ordering of them in all respects: according to divers new and easy rules of experience; gathered in ye space of twenty yeares. Whereby the value of lands may be much improued, in a shorttime [sic], by small cost, and little labour. Also discovering some dangerous errors, both in ye theory and practise of ye art of planting fruit-trees. With the alimentall and physicall vse of fruits. Togeather with the spirituall vse of an orchard: held-forth [sic] in divers similitudes betweene naturall & spirituall fruit-trees: according to Scripture & experie[n]ce. By Ra: Austen. Practiser in ye art of planting

Title

A treatise of fruit-trees shewing the manner of grafting, setting, pruning, and ordering of them in all respects: according to divers new and easy rules of experience; gathered in ye space of twenty yeares. Whereby the value of lands may be much improued, in a shorttime [sic], by small cost, and little labour. Also discovering some dangerous errors, both in ye theory and practise of ye art of planting fruit-trees. With the alimentall and physicall vse of fruits. Togeather with the spirituall vse of an orchard: held-forth [sic] in divers similitudes betweene naturall & spirituall fruit-trees: according to Scripture & experie[n]ce. By Ra: Austen. Practiser in ye art of planting

Author

Austen, Ralph, d. 1676.

Publication

Oxford :: printed for Tho: Robinson,

1653.

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Subject terms

Fruit-culture -- Early works to 1800.

Christian life -- Early works to 1800.

Fruit trees -- England -- Early works to 1800.

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"A treatise of fruit-trees shewing the manner of grafting, setting, pruning, and ordering of them in all respects: according to divers new and easy rules of experience; gathered in ye space of twenty yeares. Whereby the value of lands may be much improued, in a shorttime [sic], by small cost, and little labour. Also discovering some dangerous errors, both in ye theory and practise of ye art of planting fruit-trees. With the alimentall and physicall vse of fruits. Togeather with the spirituall vse of an orchard: held-forth [sic] in divers similitudes betweene naturall & spirituall fruit-trees: according to Scripture & experie[n]ce. By Ra: Austen. Practiser in ye art of planting." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A75801.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• engraved title page
• To the Worshipfull SAMƲEL HARTLIB Esquire My much Honoured Friend.
• To the Reader.
• The Analysis.
• A Table shewing the Principall things Contained in the Naturall part of the ensuing Worke.
• Planting of Fruit-Trees, The best way of Improvement of Lands.
  • Objections and Discouragements Concerning Planting Answered.
  • The Prayses of the Ancients concerning the Husbandmans course of life in Planting Fruit-trees.
  • Arguments of the dignity of Fruit-trees and Art of Planting.
  • Concerning Similitudes between Materiall and Mysticall Fruits, see the Observations.
  • Diseases incident to Fruit-Trees.
  • The Alimentall and Physicall use of Fruits.
    • First concerning the use of Apples.
    • Concerning their Physicall use.
  • Errors Discovered.
    • I will now discover some Errors that I finde in the practise of this Art of Planting Fruit-trees, that they may be avoided.