POMONA. 



CHAP. I. 



Of the Seminary. 



E had not the leaft intention to enlarge upod 

 this Title , after we had well reflefted on the 

 many and accurate Diredtions which are alrea- 

 dy piibliftiedj as well in our French-Gardiner^ 

 as in fundry other Treat ijes of that nature, had 

 not a moft worthy Member of the Royal Society Mr. Beale of 

 Cto whom we have infinite Obligations) fur- Yeavil in 

 nifti'd us with fome things very particular and Somerfet- 

 refftarkjihle , in order to the improvement of our Seminaries , "^^'"^• 

 Stocks^ &c. which are indeed the very Ba^s and Foundation of 

 Cider-Orchards. It is from thofe precious papers of hk^ and of 

 fome others (whofe Obfervations alfo have richly contributed to j\f^^ Buck- 

 this Enterprise) that we (hall chiefly entertain our Planter in moft land, 

 of the followin g Periods. 



Whofoever expefts from the kernel of a rich or peculiar yipple or 

 Tear to raile Fruit of the Jame kind^ is likely to find many obftru- 

 ftions and difappointments : For the Wildings (Crab or Pear^ Po- 

 mus Sylveftrk^ being at the beft the natural produdt of the found- 

 eft kernel in the firmeft land, and therefore the guft of the Fruit 

 more ftrongly auftere, fierce, and ftiarp, and alio the Fruit Icls and 

 more woody ^ and the plcafanter or plumper and larger Apple be- 

 ing the efFed of fome inteneration, which inclines to a kind of re- 

 batement of the natural ftrength of the Tree 5 the beft choice of 

 kernels for Stocks indefinitely, (and on which we may graff what 

 we pleale) ftiould be from the foundeft Wilding. For, 



A kernel taken from any graffed-Apple, as Pepin, Pear-main, &c. 

 does moft naturally propend to the wildnefs of the Stock, on which 

 'twas inferred, as being the natural mother of the kernel, which 

 is the very heart of the Apple j and alio from a more deep and fe- 

 cret Reafon, to be hereafter unfolded. 



Apples and Pears requiring rather a vulgar and ordinary Field- 

 ^ land, then a rich Garden-mould, (as has been often extrafted by 

 frequent Obfervations) it has been found that kernels fowed in a 

 very high compoji, and rank earth, have produced (/d:^j;e indeed) 

 but 7»/?jp7<5/ Fruit, haftily rotting on the Trees, before alt the parts 

 of it were mature. Vid.Aphor.^^. 



And fometimes when they feemed in outward figure to bear the 

 (hape of grafFed Apples, from whence the kernels came, yet the 

 guft did utterly deceivCjWanting that vivacity and pungent agree- 

 ablenefs. B If 



