71 Natural Mag ick.

would it not bring forth any such grapes. Pliny speaks of Apple-dam^sins, and Nut*damosins; but he sheweth not the manner how tney may be produced; happily,because it was never seen nor known. But we will demonstrate the manner of it tothe whole world, by this example: this fruit is called an Almond- Peach by the latdWriters, because it bears in it self the nature, both of the Almond and the Peachcompounded together, And it is a new kind of Adultery or commixtidn, wroughtby .skill and diligence used in grassing; such a fruit as was never heard of in fonderages, partaking both of the shape, and also of the qualities of either parent: out-wardly it resembles the Peach both in shape and colour ; but inwardly it hath asweet Almond within the kernel, that both looks and tastes like an Almond ; andso is the Tree also a middle betwixt the Almond-treeandthe Peach tree, outwardlylike the Peach-tree,and inwardly like the Almondttrce.The manner of engraffing is,by clapping the bud of one upon the bud of another; either upon one of the treesthat bare one of tbehudS, or else setting them both into a third tree, as we havedone when the Trees have been old. We may also go farther, andnpon that branchwherein those two buds grow up together, we may set a third bud, and so the fruitwist be threefold. These trees we had growing in our own Orchards many yearstogether. By this telf-same means we may produce a very strange Apple; the Won-dcrfulntste whereof will ravish our lenses and our thoughts - namely

A 'Ci.p'on that hath a Limon in theinner parts :

and this, I fay, we may produce by laying the bud of a Citron upon the bud of aLimon. And the most of those kinds are to be found among the Brutii, a peopledwelling neer Naples, and the Surrentines in Campania ; and these fruits proceedfrom the tart juice that is wichin the branch. In like manner

A double Orenge may be produced ;

which kind of fruit is common with us, wherein are double ranks of kerqels instjch Xare proportion, that you would wonder and be amazed to fee.

Chap. VIT.

Of another.de vice , whereby strange fruits may be generated , and made either betteror worse.

C oncerning the praises and excellency of engrafting, we have spoken elsewheremore ar large: Here it (hall suffice onely to (hew, that by engraffing,new fruitsmay be produced, some better, and some worse then their ordinary kinds. Wewill relate some experiments of our own, and some which the Antients have foundour. And first

How to produce a Chest-nut of the best.

There is one rare example hereof nor ro be omitted. Corcllius , a Noble-man ofRome, born at the City Ateste, engraffed a Chest-nut upon a Chest-nut branch/ inthe Country of , Naples, and so.produced a Chest-nut called Corelliana, after hisname. After that, his Heir, whom he made a Freeman, grassed the fame Co-rellUna upon another Tree: the difference betwixt them both is this, that. the for-mer is a larger Chest-nm, but this lattef is a better fruir. These things have beendone by rhe Ancients: and the good that Cometh by engraffing is such, as that ifany thing be engrossed into a stock or branch of its own kind, the fruit will there-by be made better. The Cherry-tree is very kindly to be engrafted : and youlballscarce ever have a good and a sweet Cherry, unleffe it be by engraffing upon someother Tree, asPrfwpjb//«rreportetb. By the president of this example, we Jaave en-deavoured to change .

:i The Barbery-Tree into the Tret galled Tuber :

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for I rak(5 jr,that the Qxyacanthi, or the Barbery-trce, is nothing else but a bastard,

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