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A TREATISE OF 



CHAP. XVII. 



Of Stocks proper for Neflarines and 

 Peaches. 



THESE kinds of trees are originally 

 natives of a warmer climate than 

 ours ; where the juices contained in the earth 

 are by the fun s rays rendered more deli^ 

 cate : they are very delicate both in their 

 flocks and foils, efpecially the beft forts, 

 tnoft of which are firft raifed abroad. The 

 ^ocks generally ufed to propagate them 

 upon, are plums, viz. the mufcle and wheat 

 plums, on which fome kinds thrive well, 

 and others will not, particularly the choiceft 

 .forts : the beft method is to rebud them 

 upon the moll vigorous and healthy kinds, 

 which are generally fuch as have been 

 raifed from ftones in England; but few 

 of thofe are to- be compared in goodnefs 

 with thofe raifed in France, &c. though 

 if thefe foreign kinds be firft budded upon 

 the plums before mentioned, they will not 

 bear fo well, and are more fubjeft to 

 blights than thofe that are rebudded upon 



healthy 



