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The Genet-moyle is commonly propagated by cutting off the BfAlitha little below a Burr-knot, and setting it without any more ceremony?but if they be also graff ed first as they grow on the Tree, and when theyhave covered the bead, cutoff below the Burr, and set, it is far better*In this separation cut a little beneath the Burr , and feel off, ot pWthe Bark almost to the Knot. Thus also if the Branch have moreKnots than one, you may graff, and cut off yearly, till within half 3loot of the very Stem , which you may graff like wile, and so let Waw-

Now for encouragement in transporting Graffs at great distance, w efind that with little care (their Tops uncut and unbruis’d ) they wuhold good, and may support the Transportation by Sea or Land tiffOElober or November to the very end of March: See Sir H. C P^ SOffers , Paragr. 75 1 . To which may be added, That if the Graff receivesno hurt by lying in the Stock expos’d to all Rain, Dews, and seventiesof W in t er B softs, from December to Spring, (as has been experim eI1 'tally noted5) then (by a stronger presumption) in oiled, or ratherwaxen Leather, it may undoubtedly escape. Some prescribe, That theEnds shall be stuck in a Turnip-. And many excellent Graffers (tlemen, some of very good credit) have assured us, That the Graftwhich seemed withered, and fit to be cast away, have proved the b eiwhen try’d. Thus in honest Barnaby Googes noble Heresbachius y° uwill find it commended to gather your Cions in the Wane of the M° 8n 'at least ten days before you graff them; and Constantine gives this r e3 'ion for it, That the Graff a little wither'd, and thirsty, may be m ebetter receiv'd of the Stock. I know some who keep them in Eattbfrom the end of OEtober till the Spring, and will hardly use them ^ c 'fore. There are also other Inducements for this practice, asHarwood, Page 4. has ffiew’d us; but none beyond our own Experts*who have known Graffs gather’d in December thrive and do perfect ywell.

The best Expedient to convey Graffs, is, to stick the cut ends \oCWstenvelop’d with a Clout to preserve it from falling off; and to wrap m eother part of the Twigs in dry Hay or Straw-bands, which will fe^them both from the Winds, Galling, and other Injuries in Tranfp 0 ^/tion: Nay, I have known them sent many hundred Miles from bef n £the Seas accommodated to an ordinary Letter, and though lbmcwh 3short, and with very few Buds, yet with excellent success; and if ^course were more universally consider’d, we might be furnish'd withm any great Curiosities with little difficulty or charge.

CHAP. IV.

Of Variety and Improvements,

I F any Man would have Variety of unexpected and unknown - ^and Bears, for the Improvement of Cider, os Palate-fruit, ^is more hope from Kernels raised in the Nursery ( as has already f ,edirected) than from such tryals of graffings as we have yet seen in P rsent use.

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