quired frequent cutting ;and there msaSpiniard late- 

 ly had a bramble that grew outoif his belly. The 

 improvement that from thefe and the like Uoryes, 

 the Author in the cited place propofes, is, That with 

 thebliftering plainer the bod yes of divers beafts be 

 excoriated and planted anew with Hike, woole, or the 

 like , where it may likely grow to the great advan- 

 tage of the owners. When this has well fu cceeded, 

 I \hx\\ propofe another raritie from rjae firft ttory(viz) 

 That fuch who live aboutGbflenbury plant upon them 

 (lives fome of that famed thorn that beares leaves on 

 Chrifknas day ; for if the button moulds, according to 

 the ftory, made from the wood, kept their time of 

 blowing upon the doublet , through the filke of the 

 button, doubtlefle the plant grafted upon the flefh 

 miy grow through the very doublet too. Or in the 

 mean time I (hall wage on the fuccefle of my improv- 

 ment,afmuch as the obfei vator ftull doe on his. 



N. »j. Rules for Grafting. 



The time of grafting, poltibly is any time of the 

 v. inter;I have feen Applet grafted in November^ at 

 Chrifima^ and yet thiive very well;but the belt time 

 isjthat which immediately precedes the fpringiif pofTi- 

 ble let the Cyons be gathered before the trees fliooc 

 their buds though fome will grow now and then , not- 

 withstanding they be. fprouted, ' I is no matter though 

 the (locks are budded; I have at Eafler grafted above 

 an hundred Apples and Pears ? ithout any fail. 



T he bell way to keep grafts a long time, efpeciatfy 



in pretty hot fpring leather , is to wrap them all m 



wet inoiTe , or cover them with earth. 



U\tt is made with ho.fe-dung & iliflr clay welt mix^d 



to-ether ; Mr. Aufiln ,\d vifes , that in ik>ulder-gpfc- 



