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If the Kernels os natural Assies ( or of nngraffed Trees) shouldproduce the same, or some other variety of Apples, (as sometimes stsucceeds) yet wduld this Care be seldom opera pretium, and at bebut a Work of Chance, the Disappointment falling out ib often throng 1the Sicklinels of the Soil: Or admit that the most proper and coU'stant, yet would the very Hews and Rain , by various and nuitaD rSeasons, and even by the Air it self, ( which operates beyond v^lga*Perception, in the very Changes as well of the Moitld, as of the heeand Fruit ) create almost infinite Alterations: And the Choice havingbeen in all places (apparently for some thousands of Years) by P r °pagating the most delicate of Fruits by the Graff's, ’tis almost a dc 'perate Task to attempt the raising of the like, or better Fruit from nRudiments of the Kernel. . __

Yet since our Design of relieving the want of Wine, by a Succeaneum of Cider, ( as lately improv’d ) is a kind of Modern Invent 101 *’we may encourage and commend their Patience and Diligence, who en'deavour to raise several kinds of Wildings for the trial of that execs'lent Liquor; especially since by late Experience we have found, tb-stWildings are the more proper Cider-Fruits ; some of them growingmore speedily, bearing sooner, more constantly, and in greater abun"dance in leaner Land, much fuller of ‘Juice, and that more masculineand of a more winy Vigor.

Thus the famous Red-strake of Herefordjhire is a pureand within the Memory of some now living, sirmamed the Sc®^mores-Crab, and then not much known, save in the Neighbourh°° *&c. Yet. now it would be difficult to shew that Red-strake wins)grew from a Kernel in that whole TraSl, all being since become gfff.ed Trees. Thus ’tis also believ’d, That the Bromesbury Crab (whk 1carries the Fame in some Parts of Gloucestershire) and many of mwhite Musts, and green Musts , are originally Savages ; as now lfiSomersetshire they have a generous Cider , made of prom if 1101Kernels, or ungraffed Trees , which fills their Confidence thatother Cider docs exceed it; and ’tis indeed strong, and of a gcnc)' oirSVigor*

Nor dare we positively deny, but that even the best of ourFruit came also originally from the Kernel: For it is truly noted bVmy Lord Bacon, That the Fruit does generally obey the Graff, atlyields very little to the Stock; yet some little it does.

The famous Bezy d'Hery, an excellent Musky Bear, was broog 1 ^into the best Orchards of France from a Forest in Bret any, whci' egrew wild, and was but of late taken ISsotice of.

But now to the deep Reason we lately threatned : We have by ‘ lf *Experiment sound some near Affinity between the Kernel of the ApPand the Heart or Interior of the Stock: For I saw, (lays Dr. Beds'an old rotten Kernel-Tree bearing a delicate Summer-fruit, P lC }d n s.store os smooth Cyder, ( ’tis call'd the French-Kernel-Tree, and is a Ja Dwarf as is the Red-strake ;) and examining divers Kernels,

Tears successively, os that hollow and decay'd Tree, I found them aways very small os Growth, and empty me er Skins of Kernels, 11 ,unlike to the emasculated Scrotum os an Eunuch; another young e1Tree issuing from the sounder part os a Root of the same old sec*had full and entire Kernels*

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