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they call them) Kernel-Fruit, at all adventure, and without choice*to be the very best of Cider-fruit, and to make the most noble Liquor-So much does the common Judgment differ in several Countries, thoat no considerable Distance, even in Matters of visible Fait, and Ep"domical Experience.

It has been soberly affirmed, That by graffing any White Appl e u f"pon an Elm, it changes the Apple, and particularly to a red Colour-I have a Direction where we may be Eye-witneffes of the Proof; what'ever the Truth of it be, we are not over-hastily to erect Hercules' fP"’lars, but rather to encourage the Experiment.

To gratify yet the Ingenious , instruct others, and emancipate uSfrom all these Bajiinado Clowns, we are furnistfd with many Arg li

ments and Proofs to assure a good 8needs, at least for Variety

and

Change, if not for infinite Choice: Two or three antient Referencesbeing duly premis’d; namely,

i. That’sis in vain to expect Change of Apples ham graffing up 011differing Stocks of Crabs or Apples.

i. In vain also are we to look for a kind Tree from a very mud 1differing Stock ; as an altered Rear to grow kindly on a Crab orpie-sock, & contra. There go about indeed some Jugglings, but W cdildain to name them.

It is one thing to find the kindest Stock for the Improvement ofFruit; as the Crab-Jlock for the delicate Apple; the Wild or BlffiCherry-Jlock, for the Graffs of the fairest Cherries; the largest(whole Root makes best shift for Relief) to accept the Graffi of ^more delicate Vine ; the White Rear-Rlumb Stock, for the Abr ' iC ° 'Etc. And another thing it is to seek the Stock which begets the Wo 11 'der, Variety, and that lame transcendent and particular Excellency ^enquire after: For this must he at more remote Distance; and we °“ L ,from the Ancients to shew how it may be at any Distance whatsoever'But the whole Expedient leems to be hinted at by Sir H. Flat, ^72. where he affirms, That if two Trees grow together, that bebe grassed one into another, then let one Branch into another,manly joinings Sap to Sap. This our Gardiners call graffing by **preach, and is explicated at large by Columella. r

But in this express Rule he is too narrow for our Purpose, also

short of old Experience; as we find in Raragr. 63. where he asm 111 *

We may mt graffi a contrary Fruit thereon. Against this we ur ^’

That any contrary Fruit may be adventured, and any Fruit up° n

fruitless Stock growing in Propinquity in the lame Nursery ; aS 1 j

not only affirm d, but leriousiy undertaken, and experimentally

by the sober Columella, in several of his Treatises: Turn to the 11

Chapter ol his 5th Book, (Step hens's Edition) Sed cum antiffi 1

ver int posse omne genus furculorum in omnem Arbor em insert, ^

quasi finitionem, qua nos pan lo ante uji fumus, veluti quandatn ^

fanxerint, cos tantum furculos po se coalefcere, qui sint

libro, E fruBu confaniles Us arboribus quibus mferutitur, exij * ^

vimus errorem hujus opinionis difeutiendum, tradendamque Py t r j,

rationem, qua pojjit omne genus furculi omni gencri Arboris

And the Example follows in a Graffi of an Olive into a Fig-fi° cil j

Approach, (as we call it) which he also repeats in the 2,7th Chup^ t

his Book TDe Arboribus , without altering a Syllabic. But post so 1 ; ^

this Check at the Antients he might aim at oki Varro, whom we h

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