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of full dp," and fometimes upon hard fcurvy Plumsi 

 mort ufe the White-Pear-Plums for that purpofel 

 I find not but fome other are as good ( viz) the Pri- 

 mordian,Mufcle, Violet. And it is true, that all rofes 

 cement and continue well upon bryers, as on the 

 fweet-bryer , dogrofe , I have Cherryes that grow 

 upon Plum-flocks which is Su Hugh Plates experi- 

 ment from Mr.H/7/. p.i 1 3. and Currans upon Goofe- 

 berries : what duration they may be of I expeil to 

 learn. I am not convinced by experience than 

 Pears upon White-thorn are vvorfe in their fruit 

 but if fo I (hall preferre Apple-kernel Is before Crabs 

 jforaNurfery.Ihave tatted very excellent Katherine 

 Pears without ftone or hardneffe , that came from a 

 Thonvftock:nor were they fmalleror harder (which 

 lAt.Tavemer afferts) then ordinary fruic upon the 

 proper (tock , however I advife that fuch as 

 {hall for want of Pear ,ufe Thorn-Rocks , that they 

 graft .very low, for otherwife the 1 horn not growing 

 proportionally to the graft , will caufe the graft to 

 decay, being never able to grow thereon, unto the 

 bignefs ufuall in Pear trees. 



There are almoft infinite ftoryes of ftrange conjun-' 

 cYions which urge earneftly for credit , fome of incifi- 

 ons made upon animall bodyes : The Lord oiPierefch 

 had a prefent made him of a Plum-tree branch which 

 bore bloffomes and leaves, which fprang from a thorn 

 that grew in the breaft of a Shepheard,this Shepheard 

 having got this Thorn by falling upon a plumtree. 

 Raw filk has grown on the eye brow of a Lady, menti- 

 oned by ^orellm, obferv. 10 cent. 1. being drawn 

 through the flefh to ftitch up the lips of a wound 

 there, and the growth was fo coniiderable that it re- 

 £ \ quired 



