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good & proper for molding. For if it is big, pass it through a
sieve, and if it is not yet fine enough, wash it, & when
the water will be a little rested, empty the one which is still
troubled in some separate vessel. The big ones will fall down
quickly to the bottom of the first vessel, but the one which
will have come from the troubled water, placed separately, having
taken residence, will be very fine. And then, if it does not have enough
bond, grind it well dry on porphyry, & you will
render it impalpable, & which will have bond just like chalk.
Then, if it seems to need it, you will reheat it, & will crush it
again & mix it with salts, or linen, or burned
felt or ashes of paper & similarly washed things.


Terre fondue of potters

Grind it in a mortarmustard
mill with some water, & and render it impalpable,
dry it & next moisten it with salt water, which gives
strength to u all sands to withstand several
casts.


Orange trees

In Italy, those who are in the colder regions, like
Lombardy, make square wooden cases, a little larger at
the bottom than at the top, and thereon affix buckles on the
sides for transporting them with straps, as one carries gout
sufferers, because the wheels with which one could make them roll spoil
the pathways of the gardens. And every two
years, they do not forget to open the sides of the
cases for paring & dexterously cutting, including the soil,
the ends of the orange tree's roots, because otherwise, as they
find the wood, they contract & fold back on themselves & dry at
the tips, & would make the tree die. But as they are pared, it
preserves for them new space cosfor expanding,
without finding resistance from the wood that inhibits them. And know
that, for this effect, it would be better to join the sides of the
cases with screws & not with nails, in
order to not shake the soil when one opens them.

