fe and Leafe.
And note, where you take any thing away, the sap the next Summer will be
putting: be sure therefore when he puts a bud in any place where you
would not haue him, rub it off with your finger.

{SN: Dressing betime.}
And here you must remember the common homely Prouerbe:

_Soone crookes the Tree,
That good Camrell must be._

{SN: Faults of euill drest trees, and the remedy.}
Beginne betime with trees, and do what you list: but if you let them
grow great and stubborne, you must do as the trees list. They will not
bend but breake, nor bee wound without danger. A small branch will
become a bough, and a bough an arme in bignesse. Then if you cut him,
his wound will fester, and hardly, without good skill, recouer:
therefore, _Obsta principys_. Of such wounds, and lesser, of any bough
cut off a handfull or more from the body, comes hollownesse, and
vntimely death. And therefore when you cut, strik close, and cleane, and
vpward, and leaue no bunch.

{SN: The forme altered.}
This forme in some cases sometimes may be altered: If your tree, or
trees, stand neere your Walkes, if it please your fancy more, let him
not breake, till his boale be aboue you head: so may you walke vnder
your trees at your pleasure. Or if you set your fruit-trees for your
shades in your Groues, then I expect not the forme of the tree, but the
comelinesse of the walke.

{SN: Dressing of old trees.}
All this hitherto spoken of dressing, must be vnderstood of young
plants, to be formed: it is meete somewhat be sayd for the instruction
of them that haue olde trees already formed, or rather deformed: for,
_Malum non vitatur nisi cognitum_. The faults therefore of the
disordered tree, I find to be fiue:

{SN: Faults are fiue, and their remedies.}
1. An vnprofitable boale.
2. Water-boughes.
3. Fretters.
4. Suckers: And,
5. One principall top.

{SN: 1. Long boale.}
{SN: No remedy.}
A long boale asketh much feeding, and the more he hath the more he
desires, and gets (as a drunken man drinke, or a couetuous man wealth)
and the lesse remaines for the fruit, he puts his boughes into the aire,
and makes them, the fruit, and it selfe more dangered with windes: for
this I know no remedy, after that the tree is come to growth, once
euill, neuer good.

{SN: 2. Water boughs.}
Water boughes, or vndergrowth, are such boughes as grow low vnder others
and are by them ouergrowne, ouershadowed, dropped on, and pinde for want
of p