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% E had not the least Intention to enlarge upon this Title,jjp after we had well reflected on the many and accurate Di-et rections which are already published , as well in our& French Gardiner, as in sundry other Treatises of that Dr. Reale asL Nature, had not a most worthy Member of the Royal Yeavil >n . So ~* Society (to whom we have infinite Obligations) f uv- . mersetslure *

nilhed us with some Things very particular and remarkable , in order

to the Improvement of our Seminaries, Stocks, &tc. which are induedthe very and Foundation of Cider-Orchards. It is from those

precious Tapers of his, and of some others ( whose Observations alsohave richly contributed to this Enter prize ) that we shall chiefly en-tertain our Tlanter in most of the following Periods.

Whosoever expects from the Kernel of a rich or peculiar Apple orTear to raise Fruit of the fame Kind, is likely to find many Obstru-ctions and Disappointments: For the Wilding, ( Crab or Tear ) To-mus Sylvejlris, being at the best the natural Product of the soundestKernel in the firmest Land, and therefore the Gust of the Fruit morestrongly austere, fierce and sharp, and also the Fruit less and moreWoody; and the plealantcr or plumper and larger Apple being the ef-fect of some Inteneration, which inclines to a kind of Rebatement ofthe natural Strength of the Tree ; the best Choice of Kernels for Stocksindefinitely, ( and on which we may graff what we please ) should befrom the soundest Wilding. For,

A Kernel taken from any (^raffled-Apple as Tippin, Tear-main ,$tc. does most naturally propeiid to the wildness of the Stock on whichstwas inserted, as being the natural Mother of the Kernel, which isthe very Heart of the Apple ; and also from a more deep and secretKeafon, to be hereafter unfolded.

Apples and Tears requiring rather a vulgar and ordinary Fieldland,than a rich Garden-mould, (as has been often leen to succeed by fre-quent Observations) it has been found that Kernels sowed in a veryhigh Compos, and rank Earth, have produced ( large indeed, but )injipid Fruit hastily rotting on the Trees, before all the Parts of itWere mature,' and disposing to Cankers. Vid. Aphor. 33.

And sometimes when they seemed in outward Figure to bear theShape of grassed Apples, from whence the Kernels came, yet the Gustdso utterly deceive, wanting that Viyacity and pungent Agreeableness.

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