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'POMONA:

Injita proceris pergit concrefcere ratnis,

Et fociam mutat mains arnica Pyrum :

Se que feros Jylvis hortatur linqucre mores,

Et partu gaudet nobiliore frui.

Pallad. de Insitionib. lib. xiv.

But possibly Palladiiis assum’d this Poetical Expression, uponsumption that no Man in his days durst degrade the most excclieQuince to support the Cyon of another Fruit , which then must he 0leis esteem; but we by our Luxiiry have found the succels. ,

And we have good Argument to believe, that Virgil , and Cow#la , in several of their wonderful Relations of these kinds of nfix^^( which but for the prolixity we might now recite) did not so farIVonders as to desert the Truth. ^

You may also observe, That as well the French Gardiner , andModern Planters , have found the same benefit from the Stock ol *Quince, as old Palladius did, it seems, acknowledge; yet ( ashe c0!1ceiv’d) more hospitable still with its own Kindred ; and that,

Though the Quince-Jlock admit all other Fruit,Its Cyon with no other Stock will suit:

Scorning the Bark of Foreign Trees, does knowSuch lovely Fruit on no mean Stem can grow;But the Quince-grajf to the Quince-fock isjoin’d,Contented only to improve its kind.

' Cum prafiet cunElis fe fulva cydonia pomis,Alterius nullo creditur hofpitio.

Roboris externi librum afpernata super bit,

Scit tantum nullo crefcerepojfe decus :

Sedpropriis pandens cognata cubilia ramis ,

St at, content a fuum nobilitare bonum.

Pallad. de Malo Cidonio.

Lastly, We did by unexpected chance find the facility of n

very youngest Stocks, even of one Years growth, by the Roof-second removal of the Stocks, (being then of two Years growth)observed some Roots so fast closed together into one, as not to be ^i v f ,rC ( jc,Hereupon we concluded, If Casualty, or Negligence, chance of hp ^or oppression of Neighbourhood did this, by Art it might be done & j,effectually, and possibly to some desirable purpose; lor then the . ^was more apt to receive a mastering Impression ; and any Gardenwhatsoever might by this process interchange and mingle theirBut this can extend no farther than the Stock may prevail ' vltGraff. ^And thus we have presented our diligent Ciderif with whattions and Arguments of Encouragement, grounded on frequentrience, we have receiVd from our most ingenious Correspondents , scially the Learned and truly Candid Dr. Beale, in whole Rerfon^so long entertained you : And to these we could add sundry others, ^it not now time ( whilst we dilcourfe of Possibilities ) toconclu esomething certain, and to speak of what we have. gfi

For the kinds then of Cider-Apples in being; Gloceferjbt ,sects the Broms bury-Crab ; it affords a smart, winy Liquor, a . w

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