io '• rOMOSA: 



will hold good , and may fupport the tranfportation by Sea or 

 Land from oHohcr or November to the very end of Aiarch : see 

 Sir H. Flat's Offers^ Paragr. 75. To which may be added, That if 

 the Graff receives no hurt by lying in the Stock, cxpos'd to all rain, 

 dews, and feverities of Winter , frofts from December to Spring, 

 (as has been experimentally noted) ^ then ("by a ftronger prefum- 

 ption) in oyled, or rather waxen Leather, it may undoubtedly 

 efcape. Some prefcribe, That the ends (hall be ftuck in a Turnip : 

 And many excellent Grajfers (Gentlemen fome of very good cre- 

 • dit) have allured us, That the Graffs which fecmed withered, and 

 fit to be caft away,have proved the beft when tri'd. Thus in honeft 

 Barnaby Googes noble Heresbachius you will finde it commended 

 to gather your Cions in the vpane of the Moon, at leaft ten days be- 

 fore you graff them ; and Conjiantine gives this reafon for it, That 

 the Graff a little withered , and thirfty , may be the better 

 received of the Stockj: There are alfo other inducements for this 

 praftice, as Simon Harwood, pag. 4. has (hew'd us ^ but none be- 

 yond our own experience, who. have known Graffs gathered in 

 December thrive and do perfeftly well. 



CHAP. IV. 



Of Variety and Improvements. 



TF any man would have variety of unexpefted and unknown 

 Apples and Fears, for the improvement of Cider, or Falate- 

 fruit, thore is more hope from Kernels rais*d in the Nnrfery (as has 

 already been directed) then from fuch tryals oigraffings as we have 

 yet feen in prelent ufe. 



Bur if we would recover the patience, andthefedulity of the 

 Antient (of which fome brief account will follow) or liften to 

 fome unufual Propofals, then may we undertake for fome variety 

 by Injttions. 



To delude none with promifes, we do much rather recommend 

 the diligence of inquiring from all Countries the beft Graff's of 

 fuch Fruits as are already found excellent for the purpofe we de- 

 fign : As from the Turgovians for that Pear of which Mr. Pe^ gives 

 fo good and weighty informations. 



But as fome forts are to be inquired after for the Falate and the 

 Table, fo 'tis now. our main bufinefs to fearch after fuch as are excel- 

 lent for their Liquor, either as more pleafant, more winy, or more 

 lafting ; of which fort the Bosbury bare-land-Pear excels. The 

 Red-jlrake, Bromebury-Crab, and that other much celebrated Wild- 

 ing ciW'd the Oaken-pin, as the beft for Cz^/er 5 though for fuffici- 

 ent reafons none of them comparable to the Red-Jirake. 



But to purfue the diligence of the Antients, we diredt the eye 

 • to a general expedient for all kinde of varieties imaginable, and 



which 



