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then break the pipe, and neer about the middle of the stark beneath the sprouts,there where they seem to have most grown together, cut eff the Vine, and healthat part where it is so cut, and then lay it under the ground again about three fin-gers aeep: and when that stalk shall shoot up into sprigs, take two of the best ofthem, and cherish them,and plant them in the ground, casting away all the otherbranches; and by this means you shall have such kinds of grapes as you desire. Thisvery same experiment doth Tiny set down, borrow ing it of Columell*. But Didy -mtu prescribes it on this manner. Take two Vine-branchcs of divers kinds, andcleave them in the middle j but with such heedful regard, that the cleft go as far asthe bud is, and none of the pith or juice be lost; then put them each to other,andclose them together, so that the bud of either of them meet right one with theother : and as much as possibly may be,let them touch together,whereby both thosebuds may become as onetthen binde up the branches with paper as hard togetheras you can,and cover them over with the Sea*onion,or else with some very stiff clam-my earth ; and so plant them, and water them after four or five daies, so long tillthey shoot forth into a perfect bud. If you would produce

AFigythatis ha]f white, t ad half red ;

heontintu teacbeth you to do it after this manner. Take two shoots of divers kindsof Fig-trees; but you must fee that both the (hoots be of the fame age, *nd thefame growth as neer as you can : then lay them in a trench, and dung them, and wa-ter them. And after they begin to bud, you must take the buds of each, and bindethem up together, so that they may grow up into one stalk: and about two yearsafter, take them up,and plant them into another stock, and thereby you shall havtiFigs of two colours. So then by this means

ll fruits may be made to be party-coloured ;

and that not onely of two, but of many colours, accordingly as many kinds offruits may be compounded together. And surely these experiments are very true,though they be somewhat hard to be done, and require a long times practice, as Imy sols have had experience. The like experiment to these is recorded by Palla*dim , and by other Greek Writers, who shew the way

How a V me may bring j or th clujlers of grapes that are white, but the ft ones of thegrapes black.

If white and black Vines grow neer together, you must shred the branches of eacb £ 1and presently clap them together so, that the bud of either may meet right toge-ther, and so become one: then binde them up hard in paper, and cover them withsoft and moist earth ; and so let them lie three dayes or thereabouts: after that, feethat they be well and fitly matcht together, and then let them lie till a new budcome forth of a fresh head: and by this means you shall procure in time, diverskinds of grapes , according to the divers branches you put together. I my self havemade choice of two shoots of two divers Vines growing one by another - I have^left or cut them off in that place where the buds were (booting forth, leaving thethird part of the bud upon the branch ; I fastened them together, and bound themUp into one very fast, lest when the buds should wax greater, one of them might flieoff from the other: I fitted them so well, branch with branch,and bud with bud,thatthey made but one stalk; and the very same year they brought forth grapes that hadcloven kernels or stones. This shoot so springing up, I put to another; and whenth*t was so sprung up, I put that also to another; and by this continual fitting ofdivers sprigs one to another, I produced clusters of divers-coloured and divers-na-tured graphs: for one and the fame grape was sweet and unsavoury ; and the stoneswere some long, some round, some crooked; but all of them were of divers co-lours. Pontansu hath elegantly shewed

How Citron-trees may bear divers kinds ;

uatnely, by joining two sundry boughs together, after the bark hath been pared a-

M a way,