1. If you prune your vines when the Moon is at full in Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Sagittarius, neither worms nor birds will infest your grapes.
2. Graft not Trees, the Moon waning, or not to be seen, and if you shear sheep in her increase their wool will grow again the better.
3. Fruits and Wood for use should be cut in the decrease of the Moon, but if you would have Timber to keep long, fell it towards the latter end of the winter, the Moon being under the earth, and beheld by Saturn, for that will prevent its rotting, and render it exceedingly hard and durable.
4. But fire wood and what you would have grow quickly again, cut when the Moon is above the Earth in the first quarter joined either to Venus or Jupiter.
5. Sow or Plant when the Moon is in Taurus, Virgo or Scorpio in good Aspect of Saturn, but when she is in Cancer set or sow all kinds of pulse, and in Libra or Capricorn dress your gardens and trim your small trees and shrubs.
6. Saturn in fixed signs causes scarcity of corn, dear years, and the death of many men.
7. When Trees blossom they are most apt to be affected with injuries from the Heavens, for then they are like teeming women, and when they have put out their fruits like Nurses giving suck, which can endure more than when they went with child; and therefore if Eclipses happen whilst a tree is so blooming, it most times causes a scarcity of that kind of fruit that year, and indeed the plenty of corn and fruit is not much discovered from the vernal figure or Revolution of the World, as from the temperature of the air, in moisture,
dryness, or inequality, as also from the new and full Moons, and risings of the Stars; and Eclipses, especially happening then what things respectively blossom.
8. A Malevolent Planet being Lord of the year, though fortunate, generally hurts all fruits of the earth, but those particularly signified by himself.