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not, that mendeth the fruit, or doubleth the flowers, 

 &c. but it hath not the power to make a new kind. 

 For the cion ever over-ruleth the stock. 



477. It hath been set down by one of the an 

 cients, that if you take two twigs of several fruit- 

 trees, and flat them on the sides, and then bind 

 them close together and set them in the ground, 

 they will come up in one stock ; but yet they will 

 put forth their several fruits without any commix 

 ture in the fruit. Wherein note by the way, that 

 unity of continuance is easier to procure than unity 

 of species. It is reported also, that vines of red and 

 white grapes being set in the ground, and the 

 upper parts being flatted and bound close toge 

 ther, will put forth grapes of several colours upon 

 the same branch; and grape-stones of several co 

 lours within the same grape : but the more after a 

 year or two, the unity, as it seemeth, growing more 

 perfect. And this will likewise help, if from the 

 first uniting they be often watered, for all moisture 

 helpeth to union. And it is prescribed also to bind 

 the bud as soon as it cometh forth, as well as the 

 stock, at the least for a time. 



478. They report, that divers seeds put into a 

 clout, and laid in earth well dunged, will put up 

 plants contiguous ; which, afterwards being bound 

 in, their shoots will incorporate. The like is said 

 of kernels put into a bottle with a narrow mouth 

 filled with earth. 



479. It is reported, that young trees of several 

 kinds set contiguous without any binding, and very 



