THE SCOTS GARDENER 



CHAPTER V 



HOW TO PROPAGATE AND ORDER FRUIT-TREES 



THE only fruits for this countrey are aples, pears, 

 cherries, plumes, (and apricocks, and peaches at 

 south- walls) currans, goosberries, raspberries, &c. 

 Before I begin, I shall premise observations on 

 grafting, &c. a sure means to obtain fruits of the de- 

 sired species, and that in short time ; for by taking 

 the twig or bud of such a sort as is a good fruit, and 

 bears well, and graff or inoculate into a proper 

 stock, you are sure to have the same fruit, because 

 the graff domineers, albeit it may have a little smack 

 of its stock whereon it is now graffed. And you 

 may expect fruit, because it may have actually the 

 fruit-buds, as being taken from a bearing tree. But 

 if you sow the seed, they will be long ere they come 

 to bear, and at length perhaps have no fine fruit ; 

 and for the seed of graffed trees, they will not bring 

 the same fruit. Pears and aples will rather bring 

 a fruit of the nature of the stock whereupon they 

 have been graffed ; and although you should take 

 a cyon of the same, and graff in it self, that will not 

 alter the fruit, nor better the tree, except to check 

 a little its aspiring, which may as well be effected 

 by pruning. 



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