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never ; and must make way for new, which should be 

 avoided all that can be; for life is too short and 

 uncertain, to be renewing often your plantations. The 

 walls of your garden without their furniture, look as 

 ill as those of your house ; so that you cannot dig up 

 your garden too often, nor too seldom cut them down. 

 The second is, in all trees you raise, to have some 

 regard to the stock, as well as the graft or bud ; for 

 the first will have a share in giving taste and season to 

 the fruits it produces, how little soever it is usually 

 observed by our gardeners. I have found grafts of 

 the same tree upon a Bon-cretien stock, bring 

 Chasseray pears, that lasted till March, but with a 

 rind green and rough : and others, upon a Metre-John 

 stock, with a smooth and yellow skin, which were 

 rotten in November. I am apt to think, all the differ- 

 ence between the St. Michael and the Ambrette pear 

 (which has puzzled our gardeners) is only what 

 comes from this variety of the stocks ; and by this, 

 perhaps, as well as by raising from stones and kernels, 

 most of the new fruits are produced every age. So 

 the grafting a crab upon a white-thorn brings the 

 Lazarolli, a fruit esteemed at Rome, though I do not 

 find it worth cultivating here ; and I believe the Cidrato 

 (or Hermaphrodite) came from budding a citron upon 



