g" ' POMONA: 



This confirm'd by Varro, lib. i.cap. 40. In quamcnnqm arborem in^ 

 feras, &c. and 'tis with reafon : However they do in Hereford^ 

 ftiire^ both in praftice, and opinion, limit this Rule ^ and to preferve 

 theguftof any delicate ^/?/>/e (as of the Tear-main^ ^ince-Appk^ 

 fitockt»»^c.') rather grafFupona Gennet Moykox Cyder Stock, fas 

 there call'dj then a Crab-fiock.j but then indeed they conclude the 

 Tree lafts not fo long > and 'tis obfery'd. That Apples are better ti- 

 ded from a clean, light land, &c. then from ftifFer clay of the more 

 pinguid andi^xurious foil. 



Thus in like manner our Mafter Varro, loco citato concerning 

 f'ears 5 Si in Pyfnm Syhaticam, &c. The Wild-flock^ does enliven 

 the dull and phlegmatic Apple , and the Stock of a Gennet-Moyte 

 fweeten and improve the Fepin, &c. or may rather feem to abate 

 at leaft fome Apple over-tart and fevere. 



Your Cr4^//<7£A. would be planted about Ofif^kr, at thirty two 

 Foot diftance, and not graffed till the third Spring after, or at leaft, 

 hot before the fecond. 



But if your defign be for Orchard only, and where they are to 

 abide , an interval of fixteen Foot ftiall fuffice , provided the 

 ground be yearly turn'd up with the Spade, and the diftance qua- 

 drupled where the F/<»«56 has priviledge^ this being the moft ex- 

 pedite for fuch as have no Nurjery ground. 



Crab-flocks are better then Sets of Apple Kernels to graff on, be- 

 caufe they impart a more juicy and tart relifli , and fo are to be 

 preferred for moft forts of :^pp/e/. 



CHAP. III. 



Of Grafts and Infitions. 



MAke choice of your Graffs from a conftant and well-bearing 

 Branch. 



And as the Stock, hatha more verdant rind, and is capable to 

 Vield more plenty of Jnice, fo let the Graff have more Eyes or 

 iudds : Ordinarily three or four Eyes are fufficient to give iflue to 

 the Sap :, but as well in Apples, and Pears, as in Vines, thofe Graffs 

 or Cions are preferr'd in which the budds are not too far afunder, 

 or diftant from the foot thereof: And fuch a number of buds 

 ufually determining the length of the Graff', there may divers Ci- 

 ons be made of one Branch, where you cannot procure plenty of 

 them for feverals. 



As to the fuccefs ofgr^ing, the main skil/ is, to joyn the inward 

 part of the Cion to the Jappy part of the Stock., clofely, but not 

 too forceably ; that being the beft and moft infallible way, by 

 .which moft of the quick and juicy parts are mutually united, efpe- 

 dalW towards the bottome* 



If the Stock, be fo big as to endanger the pinching of your Graff, 



when 



