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oi' a more firm contexture, and are slow growers, 

 should be grafted by approach. 



By strictly observing this rule, we shall seldom 

 miscarry, provided the operation be rightly per- 

 formed, and at a proper season, unless the weather 

 should prove very bad, as it sometimes happens, 

 whereby whole quarters of fruit-trees miscarry, and 

 it is by this method that many kinds of exotic trees 

 are not only propagated, but also rendered hardy 

 enough to endure the cold of our climate in the 

 open air ; for, being grafted upon stocks of the 

 same sort which are hardy, the grafts are rendered 

 more capable of enduring the cold, as hath been 

 experienced by most of our valuable fruits now in 

 England, which were formerly transplanted hither 

 from more southerly climates, and were at first too 

 impatient of our cold to succeed well abroad ; but 

 have been, by budding or grafting upon more 

 hardy trees, rendered capable of resisting our 

 severest cold. 



These different graftings seem to have been 

 greatly in use among the Ancients, though they 

 were certainly mistaken in the several sorts of 

 fruits which they mention as having succeeded 

 upon each other ; as the Fig upon the Mulberry, 

 the Plum upon the Chesnut, with many others of 

 the like kind : most of which have been tried by 

 Mr. Miller, and found not to succeed ; therefore, 

 what has been advanced on this head by the 

 Ancients is not founded on experience : or, at 

 least, they did not mean the same plants which at 



