IO2 Gleanings in Old Garden Literature. 



the Root requireth some Comfort from the Sunne, 

 though under the Earth, as well as the Bodie : and 

 the Lower Part of the Bodie more than the Upper, 

 as wee see in Compassing a Tree below with straw. 



" The Lownesse of the Bough, where the Fruit com- 

 meth, maketh the Fruit greater, and to ripen better; For 

 you shall ever see in Apricots, Peaches, orMelo-Cotones, 

 upon a wall, the greatest Fruits towards the Bottome. 

 And in France the Grapes that make the Wine, grow 

 upon low Vines, bound to small Stakes. And the raised 

 Vines in Arbours make but Verjuyce. It is true, that in 

 Italy, and other Countries, where they have hotter 

 Sunne, they raise them upon Elmes, and Trees ; But I 

 conceive, that if the French Manner of Planting low, 

 were brought in use there, their Wines would be 

 stronger and sweeter. But it is more chargeable in 

 respect of the props. It were good to trie whether a 

 Tree grafted somewhat neare the Ground, and the 

 lower boughes onely maintained, and the higher con- 

 tinually proined off, would not make a larger Fruit" 



These are his remarks and suggestions on 

 grafting : 



' ' There is no doubt but that Grafting (for the most 

 Part) doth meliorate the Fruit. The Cause, is manifest ; 

 For that the Nourishment is better prepared in the 

 Stocke, than in the Crude Earth: But yet note well, that 

 there bee some Trees, that are said to come up more 

 happily from the Kernell, than from the Graft ; As the 



