Or, An Appendix concerning Fruit- Trees, &c. li 



which we hold far better then to prefent the World with a Liji of 

 the particulars either known, or experimented : For who indeed 

 but a Fool will dare to tell Wonders in this fevere Age^ and upon 

 an Argument which isfo cnviron'd with Iwpojiure in moft Writers, 

 old or new ! Much lefs pretend to Experiments which may fail to 

 lucceed by default of a happy Agent, when the conclujion muft be# 

 Tenes Anthorem jit fides ! 



And truly men receive no fmall difcouragement from the ugly 

 affronts oi Clowns, and lefs cultivated perfons, who laugh and fcorn 

 at every thing which is above their underftanding : For example j 

 J kpevp a man Cwrites Mr. Beak to mej md he a. moji diligent Plan- 

 ter and GrafFer, vpho for thirty or fourty years made innumerable 

 Effays to produce feme change of an Apple by grafEng •• It feems he . 

 was ambitious to leave his Name onfuch a Fruit , //he could have 

 obtain d itj but always fail'd'^ for he perpetually made his Trials 

 «po« Crab-ftocks, orfuch (at leaji) as did not greatly differ from the 

 kind ; and he ever found that the Graff would predominate- And 

 how infinitely fuch Men having loft their own aims, will defpifc 

 better Advice, we leave to obfervation. 



However, let us add. That where nothing is more facile then 

 to raife new kinds o£ Apples (in infinitum") from Kernels : Yet in that 

 Apple-Country (Co much addided to Orchards') we could never en- 

 counter more then two or three perfons that did believe it : But in 

 other places we meet with many that, on the other fide, repute 

 Wildings, or (as they call them) Kernel fruit, at all adventure, and 

 without choice, to be the very befl of Cider-fiuit , and to make 

 the mofl noble Liquor. So much does the common judgment dif- 

 fer in feveral Countries, though at no confiderable diflanc^, even 

 in matters of vifible Fai^, and epidemical experience. 



It was our excellent Friend Mr. Euckjand who fent us word of 

 one in Somerjet-pire, who by graffing any White Apple upon an Elm 

 changes the Apple, and particularly to a red colour : He direfts us 

 where we may be eye-witneffcs of the proof, and alfo to a Clergy- 

 man hard by, who loft his labour in the fame Attempt, by the pe- 

 rifhing of the Graff's ^ fo as by his Advice we are not over-haftily 

 to ereft Hercules's Pillars ^ and renders his Rcafons, encouraging 

 our Experiments. 



To gratifie yet the Ingenious, inftrud others, and emancipate 

 us all from thefc bafiinado-Clowns, we are furnifh'd with many Ar- 

 guments and proofs to affiire a good fuccefs, at leaft for variety 

 and change, if not for infinite choice : Two or three antient Refe- 

 rences being duly praemis'd > namely, Firft, 



1. That 'tis in vain to expeft change of Apples from graffing 

 upon diftering Stocks of Crabs^ or Apples. 



2. In vain alfo are we to look for a kind Tree from a very much 

 differing Stock.:) as an altered Pear to grow kindly on a Crab or Ap- 

 ple-Jtock., d^ contra. There go about indeed fbme_/K^5//»^j", but 

 wedifdain to name them. 



It is one thing tofinde the kindeft Stock^Cox the Improvement 

 bf any Fruit , as the Crab-Jiock, for the delicate Apple, the Wild or 



Black: 



