a 2 8 VireHlions for Raifing Chap. 7 . 



Sect. VII. 

 Of Raifmg Trees by Cuttings and Sets. 



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HE firft of thcfe Methods rir^f/feems 

 to hint at, when he fays. 



Nil Radicis egent alise fummumque Putator, 

 Haud dubitat terra refdrens mandare cacumen. 



Virg. Georg, 2. 



Others no Roots require ^ the LaVrer cuts 

 Young Slipy and in the Soilfecurely puts. 



Dryden. 



And the fecond, by 



Quin & caudicibus feftis mirabile didu, 

 Truditur e ficco radix Oleagina Ligno. 



Firg»Georg. 7. 



Evn Stumps ofOlives^bare of Leaves, and dead. 

 Revive, and oft redeem th.eir wither d Head. 



Dryden. 



Tho' thefe two Methods of Raifing Trees, 

 may, in all probability, belong to the Raifing 

 Willows^ yet Virgil feems to have his Eye 

 particnlarly on the dry Boughs and Stumps of 

 Olives^ which he had obferv'd to grow again 



. after 



