Of the TroduBion of neve ^Plants* 6$

stand fitly in the midst betwixt them both; but you must do it ctiifity/'lestyou perish the wood. Then cleave them thorough the middle a little wry, thatthey maybe let one into another, and yet the cleft not seen, but covered with thebud. -Then take off a bud from one of those Tree?, with the bark round aboutthe bud, and set it into the midst os the boughs which we spake of before ; andso engraffe them together into the other Tree, having first: cut out a round fit placefor.them therein. They must be engrafted in that part of the Tree, which ismost neat and frcsh-coloured; the sprigs that grow about that place must be cutoff,lest they withdraw the nourishment from thegtaffe, which requires it all for it self.And when you have so done binds it about gently, that you hurt it not; and coverit with somewhat, lest the rainfall down upon it; but especially take heed to thecleft, and the place where you pilled off the bark, that you plaistcr it up well withmorter. Thus if you do , the graffs will very kindly prosper, and the bud growforth into a fruit that is compounded of both kind?, and it shall carry the hue bothof thePeach-apple and iheNut-peacb by equal proportion, such as was never seenbefore. By this means also we may procure the bringing forth

Of a figge halfe white and half blacky

for is we take the buds of each of them, paring them off together with the barkroundabout them, and then cut them in the middle, and put the half of one, andthe half of the other together, and so emplaister them into the Tree, as Wespake before, the fruit thereof will be a Figge half white and half black.So also

Pomegranates may he brought forth , which will be sweet on the one std'e, and fowre■ on the other ;

If you take either the shoots or the buds of each of them, and after you have divi-ded them in the midst, put the half of each together, as before was spoken. Butthis may be done best upon the shoots or sprigs ; for the bud can h’rdiy be paredoff, nor well divided, because the bark is so weak, and so thin, and slender, thatlcwill not endure to be much or long handled- Likewise

Orenges compounded of divers kjnds, and such as are half Li mans ; as also Limsns halfsweet , and half fowre , may be produced,

if we mix them after the same manner as we spake before; for these are very fit tobe graffed by emplastering ; and these kinds of compound Orenges and Liytons arevery commonly to be seen in many Orchards in Naples. In like manner we maymingle and compound

A Peaeh of the white and the red Peach,

if we put those two kinds together, by such emplastering: for there are of thiscompound fruit to be sold in Naples at this day. Likewise we may procure

A grape that hath a kernel or stone half blacks and diverfly colottred,

0c must deal by the shoots of Vines, as we (hewed before was to be done by thebods of other Trees; cleave them in the middle, and binds two shoots or moreof divers forts of Vines handsomely together,that they may grow up in one,and graffthem into a fruitful Vine of seme other kind. And the same which we have shewedconcerning ft aits, may be as well practised also upon flowers. As for example ;If we would produce

Roses that ate half white and half red ;

we must take the sprigs of a white Rose, and of ared,ardparecff the buds of eachof, them; and havirgeut them asunder in the middle, pot the halfs of each together,as We spake before,and erguffe them artificially into the bark,and then have a dili-gent care still to-cbciish them jibe compound bud wil in due season bring forth Rosestvnich will be White of the one fide, and red Of the ether.' But if jo* Would

id make