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intend the exaltation or variety of their fruit and 

 flowers, but in all sorts of shrubs and trees applicable 

 unto physic or mechanical uses, whereby we might 

 alter their tempers, moderate or promote their virtues, 

 exchange their softness, hardness, and colour, and so 

 render them considerable beyond their known and trite 

 employments. 



To which intent curiosity may take some rule or 

 hint from these or the like following, according to the 

 various ways of propagation : 



Colutea upon anagris arbor judae upon anagris 

 cassia poetica upon cytisus cytisus upon periclymenum 

 rectum woodbine upon jasmine cystus upon rosemary 

 rosemary upon ivy sage or rosemary upon cystus 

 myrtle upon gall or rhus myrtifolia whortle-berry 

 upon gall, heath, or myrtle coccygeia upon alaternus 

 mezereon upon an almond gooseberry and currants 

 upon mezereon, barberry, or blackthorn barberry upon 

 a currant tree bramble upon gooseberry or raspberry 

 yellow rose upon sweetbrier phyllerea upon broom 

 broom upon furze anonis lutea upon furze holly upon 

 box bay upon holly holly upon pyracantha a fig 

 upon chesnut a fig upon mulberry peach upon 

 mulberry mulberry upon buckthorn walnut upon 

 chesnut savin upon juniper vine upon oleaster, rose- 



