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being grafted on a Mulbery, being a red colour d 

 Pear, fuch I fuppofe we call the Bloody P^ar, and 

 that a Peach being Inoculated on it, it fends forth a 

 bloody Peach, are his affertions, which conjunctions 

 I fee will not with us take, but if they would, 1 could 

 promife my felf no greater alteration of colour 

 thereby, then I finde in the Flowers of Rofes, which 

 I have tryed in very many different forts, and expe- 

 rienc'd to follow the Cyon without any participation 

 of colour from the ftock. 



I having heard the fame relation made of chang- 

 ing the colours of Tulips, by Artificial grafting the 

 13ulbs of the white and red, and other colours, by 

 proportionable indentments in each Bulb, tryed it 

 this year in divers Roots, and made the Infitions, and 

 put together the parts as artificially as I could, ac- 

 cording to the rules here given; but the event is,thac 

 the Bulbs come not up at all, but die upon the opera- 

 tion. ~ 



Num. & The maner «f growing by Grafts, 



'Tis prov'd by experience, that there is every year 

 a new coat of Wood made to every thriving Tree, 

 by apportion of fap hardned into a thin Eoard (as I 

 may call it) infomuch that I have known divers 

 Woodmen, that would boldly affert the determinate 

 number of years, that any Oke, or other Wood, has 

 thrived in, by the number of thofe feveral diftircl: 

 Rings of Wood that are to be counted from the mid- 

 dle or center of the Tree, to theoutfide of it, it 

 being credited, and that I think with rcafon, that e- 

 very one of thefe Rings arofe from the appofed and 

 hardned fap of every feveral year. 



Now in grafting upon a fi^im flock, it comes to 



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