THE CULTURE OF PLANTS 



Pears will prosper well enough, where the soil 

 is mixt with gravel ; but both aples and pears are 

 better relished in warme grounds that are not over 

 moist, than in cold and wet. Yet there are some 

 grounds that have sweet moisture, others sour, 

 which last is very bad, and therefore must be helped 

 by draining, and application of proper medicines. 



Cherries, plums, apricocks, peaches, affect a light 

 sharp soil, thoroughly prepared and mixed with 

 rotted manures. As to their propagation : 



By grafting are raised aples, pears, cherries, 

 plumes, quince, medlar, walnut, chesnut, filbeard, 

 service, &c. 



Byinoculation or budding are apricocks, peaches, 

 nectarines, almonds, goosberries, currans, aples, 

 pears, plumes, walnuts, &c. 



By suckers, are currans, goosberries, barberries, 

 rasberries, quince, vine, fig, mulberrie ; it is the 

 white mulberrie that feeds the silk-worme; but 

 that's to little purpose here. 



By layers and circumposition are all sorts raised. 



By cuttings, are currans, goosberries, vine, quince, 

 aples, especially these with burrie-knots. 



By nuts and stones, are walnuts, chesnuts, fil- 

 beards, almonds, peach, plum, cherrie. 



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