Or, An Appendix concerning Fruit- Trees,c^c. 1 3 



But be pleas'd to take this note alfb .' As foon as your Graff hath 

 prepar'd a jecond, or at farthefl: a third years growth, take it off 

 the Stocl{, and then grafFit upon a Stoc^^ of a more natural kind : 

 For in our own Triah we have found a graff profper the fecond 

 year exceeding well ; yet the third the whole growth at once bla- 

 fted quite to the very Stocl{_^ as if Varro's Augurs had faid the 

 word. 



To this add, the making ufe of fuch Stocks as in this Experiment 

 may contribute fome fpecial aid to feveral kinds of humane /»/&•- 

 mities : As fuppofe the Birch Tree for the Stone , the Elm for 

 Fevers^ &.c. 



Moreover, To graff rather the Wildings or Crab, then the Pe- 

 pin^ becaufe the Wilding is the more natural ^ and Nature docs 

 more delight in progrefs^ then to be Retrograde and go backwards* 

 I {houldalfoexped far more advance from sl move pungent Jap, 

 then from Injipid > as generally we fee the beft and vigorous juices 

 tofalute our Palats with a more agreeable piquancy and tartnefi 5 

 forfowe find the veWidi of the Stocking- Jpple, Golden Pepin, Pear- 

 mam, Eliot y Harvy, and all ("but RuJJetings and Greenings') to be 

 more poignant then of others. 



But we muft note from Palladius, That the Ancients had the 

 fuccefs which we all, and particularly Sir H. Plat does fo frequent- 

 ly deny, as in the particular of graffing the Apple on the Pear, ^ 

 contra. Let us hear him de Porno. 



Injita procerk pergit concrefcere rantk, 



Et fociam mutat malus arnica Pyrum : 

 Skqueferosfylvis hortatur linejuere mores, 



Et partu gaudet nobiliore fiui. 



Pallad. de Infitionib. //^. 14. 



And this will (hew us, That Virgil, and Columella, in feveral of 

 his wonderfoU Relations of thefe kinds of mixture, Cwhich but for 

 the prolixity we might now recite) did not fo far effeft Wonders as 

 to defert the truth. 



You may alfo obfervc. That as well the French Gardiner, and 

 our Modern Planters, have found more benefit from the Stock, of 

 the ^ince |hen old Palladium did, it feems, difcern. 



Cum prajiet cun&is fe fulva cydonia pomk, 



Alterius nullo creditur hojpitio. 

 Roborjf externi librum ajpernata Juperbit, 

 Scit tantum nullo crejcere pojje deem. 

 '•■- Sed propriis pandens cognata cubilia ramk, 



'- . Stat, content a Juum nobilitare bonum. 



Pallad. de Malo Cydonio. 



Laftly, We did by unexpefted chance find the facility of graf' 

 fng the very youngeft Stock/, even of one years growth, by the 

 Root : At a fecond removal of the Stocks ("being then of two years 



C growth) 



