" The engrafted Apple, blending kindly growth, 

 Transforms the kindred Pear-tree, nothing loth; 

 Leaves barren habits in the native wood, 

 And joys to yield a fruitage apt for food ; 

 Makes smooth the spiny Plums and prickly Thorns, 

 And with gay foliage novel boughs adorns." 



PALLADIUS : De Insitione, 78-82. 



"The Mountain Ash in white Pear-flowers arrayed." 



VIRGIL : Georg. ii. 69. 



