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Black-Cherry-Stock^ior the graffs of the faireft Cherries ; tlie largeft 

 Vifie, ("whole root makes beft (hift for relief J to accept the Graff 

 of the more delicate Vine, &c. And another thing it is to feek the 

 Stock, which begets the wonder, variety, and that fame tranfcen- 

 dent and particular excellency we inquire after .' For this muft be 

 at more remote diftance ^ and we offer from the Ancients to (hew, 

 how it may be at any diftance whatfoever : But this is falved by 

 Sir H. Pto's expedient, r^^r^'^r. 72. viz. If two Trees grorv together^ 

 that be apt to be graffed one into another^ then let one branch into 

 another, rporknianly joyning Sap to Sap. This our Gardiners call 

 Gr offing by Approach. 



But in this Rule he is too narrow for our purpofe, and far (hort 

 of old experience : As alfo in Parag. 69. where he affirms, fVe may 

 tiot graff a contrary Fruit thereon. Againft thk we urge 5 That 

 any contrary Frwif may be adventured, and any Fruit upon any 

 fruitlefs Stocky growing neer in the fame Nnrfcry, : If it be not only 

 affirm'd, but feriouOy undertaken, and experimentally proved by 

 the fober CohtnieUa, in feveral of his Treaf lies ^ Turn to the ele- 

 venth Chapter of his ffth Book, (Stephens Edition :) Sed cum Aw 

 tiqui negaverint pofje omne genus furculorum in o»inem Arborem in- 

 feri, C^ illam quail jinitionem, qua nos paulo ante hji fumus, veluti 

 quandam legem fanxerint, eos tantum Jurculos poffe coalefcere, qui 

 pnt cortice, ac hbro, C^ fruBu coftjimiles iis arhorihus quibus inje- 

 runttir, exifiimavimus errorem hujm opinionis difciitiendiim, tra- 

 dendamque pojierk rationem^ qua pojjit omne genus fur culi omni ge- 

 iteri Arboris inferi. And the example follows in a Graff' of an 

 olive into a Fig-jiockhy Approach (as we callit^J which he alfo re- 

 peates in the twenty feventh Chapter of his Book De Arboribuf^ 

 without altering a fyllablc. But poffibly in this check, at the Anci- 

 tnt he might aim at old Varro, whom we ftnde thrcatning no left 

 then thunderbolts and Blajis to thofe who fliould attempt thefe 

 ftrange Marriages, and did not fort the Graff with the Tree ^ con- 

 fult lib. I. cap. 40. Bu thus you fee this Art aflum'd by Columella 

 for his own invention f 1500 years fince) to be no news to Varro 

 200 years older 5 where he goes on, Bfi altera Jpecics ex arbore in 

 arborem inferendi nuper aftimadverfa in arboribus propinquis. Sec. 

 Though here again we may qucftion our Mafters mtper animad- 

 verfa too i fince before he was born Cato relates it as ufual to Graff 

 Vines in the manner by them prefcribed, cap. 41. Tertia infttio ejt : 

 Terebra vitem quam injeres,&cc. Which makes us admire how the 

 witty Walchius in his Difcourfe De vitrbus fru&uarifs,ip2g. 265. 

 could recount the grafing of Vines amongft the wonders of Mo- 

 dern Inventions. 



But it feems Varro and his Contemporaries did extend the pra- 

 ftice beyond Cato ^ and Columella proceeded further then Varro^ 

 even to all forts of Trees, however differing in nature, quality, 

 barke, or feafon : And then Valladius afliimes the refult, and gives 

 us the particulars of the fuccels in his Voem, De Infitionibus. And 

 to thefe four as in chief (no phantaftical or counterfeit perfons^ we 

 refer the Induftrious. 



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