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away, and rastning each to other with a kind of giue, that they may grOw up oneas fait as the other ; and when they are engraffe j mto one stock, they must be verycarefully covered and looked unto, and so one and the fame branch will bring forthfruit of slivers kinds. So you may procure

An Orenge-tree to bring forth an Apple half sweet and. half[oven*

And this kind of commixtion was invented by chance ; for there were grassed twoboughs of Orenge trees, one brought forth a sweet, and the other a sharp fruit.When occalion served to transplant and remove the Tree, it was cut off in themiddle, according as Husband-men are wont to do when they plant such Trees af-ter they are grown old; and by great chance, it was cutcff there where the twoboughs had been before engrafted: and so when the stock budded afresh, therearose one bud out of the stiarp and sweet branches both together as they were leftin the stock; and this one bud brought forth Apples or fruit of both relishes;Wherefore no question but such a thing may be effected by art, as well asit was by chance, if any man have a minde to produce such kind of fruits;

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Of a third waj^ whereby divers kinds of fruit s may be compounded together.

*X7E will also set down a third way, whereby we may mingle and.compoundv " divers kinds of fruits together. A way which hath been delivered untous by the Ancients, though for my own part I think it to be not oneiy a veryhard, but even aa impossible matter. Notwithstanding, .because grave An-cient Writers have set it down, I cannot scorn here to rehearse it: andthough I have put it in practice, but to no purpose, for it hath not so fallenout as they write, yet I will not discourage any man that hath i tflinj tomake trial hereof; for it may be that fortune, will second their endeavoursbetter then ssie did mine. The way is this; to gather many feeds of sundryTrees and fruits, and wrapping them up together, .so to sow them : and whebthey are grown up into stalks, to bind aU the stalks togetbec, that tbeyttnaynot flie asunder, but rather grow up all into one Tree ; and this Tree willbring forth divers kinds of fruits,.yea and ontand Phe fame fruit will be min-gled and compounded of many. It should seem that the Authors of this experi-ment, learned it first out of, Theofhr*jh*s, who writes^ that,' If you sow twodivers seeds nter together within a hands breadth , and then sow two dtfotrdivers feeds a little above them, the roots which- wilt,comedos allthese: seeddwill lovingly embrace and winde about each other, and sot grow up intO -dhestalk or ifock, and be incorporated one imo another. Buc special cart muftis ftzdhow the leeds be placed; for they must be set with she lirvle-dnd upwafefc, ■'be-'cause the bud co r,ech not out of the low and hollow parts, butscuc of the highest.And there ate four seeds required, because so many will easily a mt fitly- csofe torsesth:f. A matter, which if it vvere true, it might be a very ready fteans wbiclstwdnlcr

produce exceeding many, and wonderful experiments By sod* ktmeans ,if l

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Berries that are party-coloured maf fe produced. • :■' ‘ -moil Ho

If you take a great many berries, white, and black, and red, one amongst artbthtfr^and low chem in the earth together •; and when they are lbotoup , bind , rfll r, PhWe )stalks into one, they will grow together , and yeeld party coloured berries. -Timswrites, that this way was devised from the birds; Nature, faith he,hath taughtto graffe with a seed: for hungry birds have devoured: feeds, and having moist else?and warmed them in their heljies, a little after have disoged in the .forky twifiesbfTrees, and together with their dung excluded the feed whole which erst they hadswallowed: and sometimes it brings forth there where they dung it, and sometimesthe wind carries it away into some chinks of the barks of Tree$, and there it bringsforth. This is the reason why many times we fee a Cherry-tree growing in a Wil-lows