"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 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 of 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 whilst things respectively blossom."
