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lar ger c\zt ftratum fuper ftratum y v'17^ after every fix inches thick- 

 nefs of Corn, zfiratum of Pebbles, placed about a yard diftance 

 from each other, then Corn again to the fame thicknefs, and fo 

 S SS to ten lains apiece : by which method, as I was told, Corn 

 had been preferved fweet and free from muft, ten years together, 

 only removing it once a year, and laying it again as before ; and 

 in the Summer time when the weather was dry, fetting open the 

 windows in the day time and (hutting them at night, 



112. To recover it from mufiinefs, to its priU'mfweetnefs, fome 

 have laid it out all night,th'm fpred on cloaths,to receive the Even- 

 ing and Morning dews, with fo good fuccefs, that being dryed a- 

 gain next day in the Sun, the ill fmell has been quite removed. 

 And thus I have done with the moft uncommon Arts] have met 

 with concerning Plants related to Husbandry, and the whole Her- 

 baceou* kind * where by the way let it be noted, as mChap. 6.^.23. 

 that thefe Arts are called uncommon, not fo much in refpecl: of 

 this, as of other Counties, where indeed they will feem fo : and 

 that I have written of them rather for the information of grangers, 

 than the Inhabitants of Oxford-Jhire, as I muft hereafter in other 

 Counties, for information of this. Wherein if through my own 

 ignorance, or frowardnefi of fome Husbandmen (I dare not fay all) 

 I have failed of that accuracy, that might otherwife have been 

 expected, I beg the Readers pardon, and promife amendment in 

 the following Counties, provided I have encouragement to go on 

 in my defign. 



113, After the Herbaceous Plants, come we next to confider 

 , the Shrubs and Subfrutices, amongft which I met with one, per- 

 haps I may fay fcarce heard of curiofity, though it have been an 

 Experiment frequently performed many years fincc, not only by 

 thofe excellent Gardeners and Botanifts, the two Bobarts, Father 

 and Son ; but as I have heard alfo by the Reverend and Ingenious 

 Robert Sharrock. LL D, and Fellow of New College, who after 

 many unfuccefsful tryals of grafting one Fruit upon another, 

 made at laft a very pleafant one, and to good advantage too, upon 

 different Vines, which in fo great meafure anfwer'd their hopes, 

 that they have now fignal proof in the Phyfick. Garden of the 

 white Frontiniac grafted upon the Par fly Vine, growing and bear- 

 ing very well ; and to this advantage, that they think the early 

 ripening ftock of the Parfly Vine, to conduce fomwhat to the 



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