On, An Appendix concerning Fruit-Trees,, (fife.

threatning no less than Thunderbolts and Blasts to thole who shouldattempt thelc strange Marriages, and did not lort the Graff with theTree ■ consult lib. j. cap. 40. And yet you may fee this Art assumed byC olumella for his own Invention ( 1500 Years since) to be no news toV *rro loo Years older; where he goes on, Est alter a species ex arboreUl arbor em infer en di nuper animadverfa in arboribus propinquis, &c.'Though here again we may question our Masters nuper animadverfa too;Tmc.c beiore he was born Cato relates it as usual to graff Vines in themanner by them preicrib’d, cap. 41. Tertia insitio est: Terebra viter/tquani in fir es, &c. Which by the way makes us admire how the wittyWalchius in his Discourse T>e visions fruftuariis, Page 265. couldrc yount the graffug os Vines amongst the Wonders of Modern Inven-tions,

$ut it seems Varro and his Contemporaries did extend the Practicebeyond Cato ; and Columella proceeded further than Varro , even to allforts of Trees, however differing in Nature, Quality, Bark, or Season:And then Palladins assumes the result, and gives us the particulars ofthe succels in his ‘Poem, Tie Insttionibus. And to these four as in chief(no fantastical ox counterfeit perlons) we refer the Industrious.

But be pleas’d to take this note allo: As soon as your Graff hathattained to a second , or at farthest a third Years growth, take it off theStock, and then graff it upon a Stock of a more natural kind: For inour own Tryals we have found a Graff prosper the second Year excee-ding well; yet the third the whole Growth at once blasted quite to thevery Stock, as if Varro 's Augurs had said the word.

To this add, the making use of such Stocks as in this Experimenttnay contribute some special aid to several kinds of human Infirmities :As, suppose the Birch Tree for the Stone, the Elm for Fevers, Stc.For ’tis evident, that by such In fit ions, the Branch may convert theSap of the Root even of another species into its own nature, and alterall its properties ; though in some they domineer, as the Branch of theApple in Rhamnus, or Mezerea, acquires a Purgative quality. Andby these means why may not the Fruit by effectual Marriages be ren-dred Cordial, Astringent, Purgative, Sudorific, Soporiferous, andeven Deleterious and Mortal? But this we only hint.

Moreover, To graff rather the Wilding , or Crab, than the Pippin ,because the Wilding is the more natural; and Nature does more delightm Progress, than to be Retrograde and go backwards.

I should also expect far more advance from a more pungent Sap, thanfrom instpid ; as generally we lee the best and vigorous Juices to saluteo.ur Palats with a more agreeable Piquancy and Tartness; for so we findthe relish of the Stocking-Apple, Golden Pippin, Pearmain, Eliot,Uarvy, and all ( both Rujfettings and Greenings ) be more poignantthan of others.

And here we note from Palladius, That the Antients had the succcistvhieh we all, and particularly Sir II. Platt, does lo frequently deny,as in the particular of graffing the Apple on the Pear, C contra. LetUs hear him de Pomo :

The Graffed-Crab its bulhy Head does rear,

Much meliorating the inserted Pear :

Its self to leave its Wildnefs does invite,

1 And in a Nobler Ijfue to delight.

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