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especially the least sort of Pears called Myrapia, or Musk-pears, we may effect it byengrafting them into a Quince-tree , bccaule the Quince-tree, of all other, bearsthe greatest froit: and thereby the least Pears that are may be so augmented, thatthey will become a very goodly fruit; experience whereof,we have in many placesin our Country. So we may cause

The tJWcdlar-tree to bear huge Medlars,

greater then any man would imagine, if weengraff it into the Quinde-tree : thisproof whereof both I have made my self, and seen it tried by many'others, and thA*oftener we so engraff it j the greater Medlars we shall procure. LikcWiseThe [mall Apiricockmaj be made greater ,

whereas they are the smallest kinde of Peaches that are. I have oftentimes engraf-fed it upon that kinde of Damosin-trce which bears a Plum like a Goats stone bothin shape and greatness, (it may be it is our Scag-treey and by thikmdans I procuredgreat Apticocks : but if you ingraft it into any other Damosin-trce, it will ye eldbac a bastsrd-fruit: tor the Apncock doth not endure kindly, to be engrafted intoany other trees besides. In our Naples and Sur rent me orchards, there is excellentfruit of this kinde; and I never saw any elsewhere. We may alsoaugment thefruit of the Myrtle-tree .

The Pomegfanate-tree and the Myrtle-tree are each delighted with others compa-ny, as Didymus writeth in his Georgicks j where he faith plainly, that the Pomegra-nate-tree being engrafted into the Myrtle-tree , and likewise the Myrtle-tree intothePomcoranate-trce, do each of them bring forth a greater fruit. But I am per-swaded that the Myrtle-tree brings forth greater frnit in proportion to her bodywhen it is engrafted upon the Pomcgranate-tree, because the kinde of this is greaterthen the kinde of that, then the Pomegranate-tree doth when h is engrafted uponthe Myrtle-tree. By such a kinde of means we may also procure

Mulberries greater then ordinary

if we engraft a Mulberry into a Fig-tree: for so Palladitu hath written, That if theMulberry be engrafted into a Fig-tree,the Fig-tree will cause ir to change his colour,and will fill up the fruit thereof with a fat juyee, so that they shall be greater Mul-berries then ordinarily their kinde is wont to yeeld. A third means whereby Ap-ples or foch-like fruit may be augmented, is, by plucking off some of the fruit hereand there,and leaving some few upon the trees: for so shall the juyee of the tree be-stow it self more liberally upon the fruit that is left,and make it greater: as a motherdoth more bountifully feed one childe with her milk , then she can feed twain.Wherefore if we woul d procure

Qtrous greater then their kinde,

Fkrentinui counselleth us, that when the fruit beginneth to weigh down the boughs,we should pluck off here and there some, and leave but a few behinde ; so shallthey that are left be thicker and bigger every way. Pornanm also faith the same. If,faith he, yon would have great Citrons, bfe enough to sill your hand, you must shakeeft a great many from all the boughs, onely leaving some few , (but you must leavebotb the greatest, and those also that grow in the chiefest and likeliest parts of thetree:) for. faith he, the heir which is left, will make himself merry and fat with hisbrothereriiilk, and thrive much the better, Pallodius shews

flow to makg Apples greater then ordinary ,

and it is by this fame means. For when they hang thick upon the boughs, you mustgather away the worst, that so the nourishing juyee may be converted to the best,and the fairest may thereby be the better augmented- There is yet another meanswhereby we may cause fruit to be the greater ; and this by dtesting and trimming,when we dig about them^md water them, and lay muck about them. And first, bythis means

Citrons may be made greater :

for, as Palladitu faith , they are much holpen and delighted with continual diggingabout them, And

1 Qutncfpears may be augmented,

as the same Author sheweth, by watering them continually. And

‘Peaches may be augmented much, if