OBSERVATIONS ON GRAFTING 1 



In the doctrine of all insitions, those are esteemed 

 most successful which are practised under these rules : 



That there be some consent or similitude of parts 

 and nature between the plants conjoined. 



That insition be made between trees not of very 

 different barks ; nor very differing fruits or forms of 

 fructification ; nor of widely different ages. 



That the scions or buds be taken from the south or 

 east part of the tree. 



That a rectitude and due position be observed; not 

 to insert the south part of the scions unto the northern 

 side of the stock, but according to the position of the 

 scions upon his first matrix. 



Now, though these rules be considerable in the usual 

 and practised course of insitions, yet were it but reason- 

 able for searching spirits to urge the operations of 

 nature by conjoining plants of very different natures in 

 parts, barks, lateness, and precocities, nor to rest in the 

 experiments of hortensial plants in whom we chiefly 



1 Probably addressed to Evelyn. 

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