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CHAP. II.

Of Stocks.

r jj ^ H E forme? thus establiffi’d, after all

_ have been sufficiently wearied, we ffiall find the Wilding so be

hardiest and most proper Stock for the most delicate Fruit. This cost-confirmed by Varro, Lib. i. Cap. 40. In quamcunqne arbor em i'nfe raS ’Ac. and ’tis with Reason: However they do in Herefordjbire, b^hin Practice and Opinion, limit this Rule; and to preserve the Gustoany delicate Apple, (as of the Fear-main, Quince, Apple , Stocks*Ac. ) rather graff upon a Gennet-Moyle or Cydoddin-Stock, ( as L f {Ccalled) than a Crab-stock ; but then indeed they conclude the 1 reelasts not so long; and ’tis obscrv’d, that Apples are better tasteda clean, light Land, t$c. than from stiffer Clay, or the more pibss^and luxurious Soil; whence we may expect some Assistance fromCivility of the Stock , which is a kind of prepared Soil, or Founds'on to the Graff ; even as our very Transplantations into better Grouflis likewise a kind of Grasping. .

Thus in like manner our Master Varro, loco citato , concernsFears ; Si in Fyrim Sylvaticam, Ac. The Wild-stock does enlj^the dull and phlegmatick Apple, and the Stock of a Gennet-H°Tsweeten and improye an Apple that seems over-tart, as the TotnFj'Or some Greening, Ac. or may father seem to abate at least iofnc Mpie over-tart and severe.

Your Crab-ffock \yould be planted about Oblober , at thirty tvv fFoot Distance, and no \ grossed till the third Spring after, or at h‘ lnot before the second. ‘ ^

But if your Design be for Orchard only, and where they areabide, an Interval of sixteen Foot ffiall suffice for the ‘D'warfijb ^ inor in the Grounds where the Redjtrake, or other Fruit-trees , ar e 0small Bulk, provided the Ground be yearly turn’d up with theand the Distance quadrupled where the Flough has Privilege; this bc-ing the most expedite for such as have no Nursery Ground.

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CHAP. III.

Of Graffs and Insitions,

M Ake Choice of your Graffs from a constant and well-bea^ 0 ^Branch, or else you will have a late and flow Return. , uAnd as the Stock hath a more verdant Rind, and is capable to y*more Plenty of Juice, so let the Graff have more Eyes or Buds-' ^dinarily three or four Eyes are lufficient to give Issue to the Sap ; bu■well in Apples and Fears, as in Vines, those Graffs or Cions are P^ferr’d, in which the Buds are not too far asunder, or distant fromFoot thereof: And such a Number of Buds usually determining ,length of the Graff, there may divers Cions be made of one Brawhere you cannot procure Plenty of them for severals.

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