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kind, that is much moistcr than its own stock, it may 

 make the fruit greater, because it will yield more 

 plentiful nourishment, though it is like it will make 

 the fruit baser. But generally the grafting is upon 

 a drier stock, as the apple upon a crab, the pear 

 upon a thorn, &c. Yet it is reported, that in the 

 Low Countries they will graft an apple cion upon 

 the stock of a colewort, and it will bear a great 

 flaggy apple, the kernel of which, if it be set, will be 

 a colewort, and not an apple. It were good to try 

 whether an apple cion will prosper, if it be grafted 

 upon a sallow, or upon a poplar, or upon an alder, 

 or upon an elm, or upon an horse-plum, which are 

 the moistest of trees. I have heard that it hath 

 been tried upon an elm, and succeeded. 



454. It is manifest by experience, that flowers 

 removed wax greater, because the nourishment is 

 more easily come by in the loose earth. It may be, 

 that oft regrafting of the same cion may likewise 

 make fruit greater ; as if you take a cion and graft 

 it upon a stock the first year, and then cut it off and 

 graft it upon another stock the second year, and so 

 for a third or fourth year, and then let it rest, 

 it will yield afterward, when it beareth, the greater 

 fruit. 



Of grafting there are many experiments worth 

 the noting, but those we reserve to a proper place. 



455. It maketh figs better, if a fig-tree, when it 

 beginneth to put forth leaves, have his top cut off. 

 The cause is plain, for that the sap hath the less to 

 feed, and the less way to mount : but it may be the 



