Of the TroduBion of nevs> Plants,

or a wild Tuber: and therefore if a man follow that example of Cort!litu t and en-grafts the Oxyacantha oftentimes into the own branch or liock , it will be muchbettered, and become thcTuber-tree: as also on the other side,the Tuber-tree, ifit be net dressed and looked unto, doth degenerate into the Barbery tree. I myself have engrafted it three or four times into the branches of its own kind, in myown Orchard ; and if I live so long, I will dill engrafts it so, till it do bring forthTubers > for I find that it brings forth already, both greater and sweeter berries.Now we will speak of such fruits, as are engrafted not into their own branches,butinto branches of another kind, which contain in them both the fashion and theproperties of either kind: and we will teach the manner how to compounds newkind of fruit lately devised, namely

A Feach-nut , mixed of a Nut and a Peach.

There is a kind of Peach called a Peach-nur, which the Ancients never knew of*but hath lately been produced by pains taken in grassing, as I my self have seen.It bears the name and the form also of both the parents whereof it is generated,having a green colour like a Nut, and hath no moffic down on the out-side, but ve-ry smooth all over; the taste of it is stiarp and somewhat bitter; ic is long ere it beripe, and is of a hard substance like a Peach. That part of it which lies against theSun is reddish; it smells very well; it hath within, a rough stone, and hard like aPcach-stone ; it hath a pleasant relish ; but the apple will not last so long as the Nut,or kernel within. Which kind of fruit cannot be supposed to have been othervyifebrought forth then by divers engrafsings of the Peach into the Nut-tree, one yearafter another. We may also better the fruits by engraffing them into better Trees.P iophanes produced

Citro/f apples compounded of an Apple and a Citron.for he engrafted an Apple into the Litron-tree, and that oftentimes; but it wither-ed as soon as ever it did (hoot forth: howbeit, at length it took fast hold, and be-came a Citton-apple-trce. Anatolius and Dwphanes made a compound fruit called

Melimela , of an Apple and a Quince mixt together ;for if weengraffean Apple into a Quince*tree, the Tree will yield a very goodlyapple, which the Athenians call Melimelnm, but we call it a St. Johns Apple. c Plmywrites, that an ordinary Quince, and a Quincc-pear being compounded,

Produce a fruit called Milviana.

The Quince, faith he, being engrafted into a Quince-pear, yieldeth a kind of fruitcalled Milvianum, which alone of all other Quinces is to be eaten raw. Now as wehave shewed how to make fruits better by engraffing, both for shew and for pro-perties, we will declare also,how by engraffing

Fruits may he made worse.

We will shew it first by a Pear. MarcusVarro faith, that if you engraffe a very goodPear into a wilde Pear-tree, it will not taste so well as that which is engafted intoan Orchard Pear-tree. If you engraft; a Peach into a Damohn-tree, the fruit of icwill be much less: if into a bitter Almond-tree, the fruit will have a bitter relish.Likewise if you grrfte a Chest-nut into a Willow, and be somewhat a latter fruit,the taste of it will be more bitter. And so if you graffe an apple into a Damosin-tree, the fruit which it yields, will neither be so great, nor yet so good,as it is in theown kind.

Chap. VIII.

How to procure ripefrnis and flowers before their ordinary season.

A Rt being as it were Natures Ape* even in her imitation of Nature, effectethgreater matters then Nature doth. Hence it is that a Magician being fur-mlhtd with Art, as it were another Nature, searching throughly into those

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