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Peach and Melocotone. The Cause I suppose to bee, 

 for that those Plants require a Nourishment of great 

 Moisture ; And though the Nourishment of the Stocke 

 be finer, and better prepared, yet it is not so moist, 

 and plentifull, as the Nourishment of the Earth. And 

 indeed we see those Fruits are very Cold Fruits in their 

 Nature. 



" It hath beene received, that a Smaller Peare, grafted 

 upon a Stocke that beareth a greater Peare, will become 

 Great. But I thinke it is as true, as that of the Prime- 

 Fruit upon the Late Stocke; Kn&econtroverso; which we 

 rejected before : for the dons will governe. Neverthe- 

 lesse it is probable enough, that if you can get a dons 

 to grow upon a Stocke of another kinde, that is much 

 moyster than his own Stocke, it may make the Fruit 

 Greater, because it will yeeld more plentifull Nourish- 

 ment ; Though it is like it will make the Fruit Baser. 

 But generally the Grafting is upon a drier Stock; As the 

 Apple upon a Crab; the Peare upon a Tkorne; &c. Yet 

 it is reported, that in the Low-Countries they will graft 

 an Apple-Cions upon the Stock of a Colewort, and it will 

 beare a great flaggy Apple; The Kernell of which, if it 

 be set, will bee a Coltxvort, and not an Apple. It were 

 good to trie, whether an Apple-Cions will prosper, if it 

 be grafted upon a Sallow, or upon a Poplar, or upon an 

 Alder, or upon an Elme, .or upon an Horse- Plumme, 

 which are the moystest of Trees. I have heard that it 

 hath been tried upon an Elme, and succeeded. 



" It is manifest by Experience, that Flowers Removed 

 wax greater, because the Nourishment is more easily 



