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If the ksrneU of natural Apples (or of ungraffed Trees) ftiould 

 produce the iame, or fome other variety of Apples, (as fdmctimcs 

 It fucceeds) yet would this care be feldom oper£ pretium^ jthd at 

 beft but a work of Chance, the difappointment falling out fo often 

 through the ficklenefs of thtSotl : Or admit that the moft proper 

 and conftant, yet would the very dews and rain, by various and 

 mutable Seafons, and even by the Air it lelf, (which operates be- 

 yond vulgar perception, in the very changes as well of the mouldy 

 as of the feeds and fruit) create almoft infinite alterations ; And 

 the choice having been in all places (apparently for fome thoufands 

 of years) by propagating the moft delicate of Fruits by the Graffs, 

 'tis almoft a defperate task to attempt the raifing of the like, or 

 better Fruit from the rudiments of the Kernel. 



Yet fince our defign of relieving the want of JVine, by a Succe- 

 daneum of Cider, (as lately improv'd) is a kind of Modern Inven- 

 tion, We may encourage and commend their patience and dili- 

 gence who endeavour to raife feveral kinds of Wildings for the 

 tryal of that excellent Liquor , efpecially fince by late experience 

 we have found, that Wildings are the more proper Cider-Fruits 5 

 fome of them growing more fpeedily , bearing fooner, more con- 

 ftantly, and in greater abundance in leaner Land, much fuller of 

 juice, and that more mafculine, and of a more Winy vigour. 



Thus the famous Red-jirake of Hereford-Jhire is a pure Wilding, 

 and within the memory of fome now living firnamed the Scuda- 

 tnores Crab,and then not much known fave in the Neighbourhood,S(.c. 

 Yet now it would be difficult to (hew that Red-Jirake which grew 

 from a l^rnel in that whole Traif, all being fince become graffed 

 Treeis. Thus 'tis alfo believed, That the Blonisbery Crab (which 

 carries the fame in fome parts of Glocefier-fbire) and many of the 

 White Mujis, and Green Mujls, are originally Savages 5 as now in 

 Somerfct-Jhire they have a generous Cider made of promifcuous 

 kp'nels, or ungraffed Trees, which fills their confidence that no 

 other Cider does exceed it ; and 'tis bdeed ftrong, and fufficiently 

 heady. 



Nor dare we pofitively deny, but that even the beft of our Ta- 

 ble-jruit came alfo originally from the kernel : For though it be 

 truly noted by my L. B«ftf», Thai ^Ae Fruit does generally obey the 

 Graff, and yields very little to the Stock , yet fome little it does. 



The famous Eezy de Hery,^n excellent Musky Pear, was brought 

 into the be{\. Orchards o£ France (rom zForeJi in Bretainy, where it 

 grew wild, and was but of late taken notice of. 



But now to the deep Reajbn we lately threatned : We have by 

 an Experiment found fome neer affinity between the Kernel of the 

 Apple and the heart or interiour of the Stock.: For Ifaw ffays M' 

 Beale) an old rotten Kernel-Tree bearing a delicate Summer-fruit, 

 yielding iJore of fmooth Cider, ('/»• call'd ?Ae French-Kernel-Tree, 

 and if alfo a Dwarf, as is the Red-ftrake j ) and examining divers 

 ¥L.Qxx\c\s,many years fuccejfively, of thathollovp and decayed Tree, I 

 found them always very fmaU of growth, and empty, meer sh^ns of 

 Kernels, not unlikf to the emafcuUted Scrotum of an Eunuch , ano- 

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