218 NATURAL HISTORY. 



and more plentiful fruit ; or else, the same years, 

 larger leaves, because of the sap stored up. 



451. It hath been generally received, that a 

 plant watered with warm water, will come up sooner 

 and better than with cold water or with showers. 

 But our experiment of watering wheat with warm 

 water, as hath been said, succeeded not ; which may 

 be, because the trial was too late in the year, viz. in 

 the end of October. For the cold then coming upon 

 the seed, after it was made more tender by the warm 

 water j might check it. 



452. There is no doubt, but that grafting, for 

 the most part, doth meliorate the fruit. The cause 

 is manifest ; for that the nourishment is better pre 

 pared in the stock than in the crude earth ; but yet 

 note well, that there be some trees that are said to 

 come up more happily from the kernel than from 

 the graft, as the peach and melocotone. The cause, 

 I suppose to be, for that those plants require a 

 nourishment of great moisture; and though the 

 nourishment of the stock be finer and better pre 

 pared, yet it is not so moist and plentiful as the 

 nourishment of the earth. And indeed we see those 

 fruits are very cold fruits in their nature. 



453. It hath been received,, that a smaller pear 

 grafted upon a stock that beareth a greater pear, 

 will become great. But I think it is as true as that 

 of the prime fruit upon the late stock ; and (( e con- 

 &quot; verso/&quot; which we rejected before ; for the cion will 

 govern. Nevertheless, it is probable enough, that 

 if you can get a cion to grow upon a stock of another 



