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may have great variety of new fruits, and 

 flowers yet unknown. Grafting does it not :" 

 adds this great man ; " that mendeth the fruit, 

 or doubleth the flowers, &c. ; but it hath not 

 the power to make a new kind, for the scion 

 ever overrule th the stock/' 



Bradley, whose works were published in 

 1718, about a century after those of Lord 

 Bacon, is the first author who wrote on 

 this subject as being accomplished ; but 

 the exact method was not then clearly un- 

 derstood, as he only describes it by bringing 

 the branches of different trees together when 

 in blossom ; but, on this hint, the gardeners 

 in Holland and the Netherlands practised 

 before it was much attended to in this coun- 

 try, where the discovery was made and pub- 

 lished ; but, to do them justice, they have the 

 honour to acknowledge they owe the art to 

 the English. 



It now appears to have reached its 

 highest perfection ; and I shall proceed to 

 relate the manner in which Mr. Knight 

 has so successfully produced new varieties 

 of apples and other fruits ; and although he 

 has most clearly explained himself, yet I 

 have thought it advisable to elucidate it 

 more plainly by plates from drawings, which 

 I have made from the blossoms for the ex- 







