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| PEARS are grafted upon Pear Stocks, raifed from the Kernels of 
the wild Hedge-Pear, and on Quince Stocks alfo, raifed from Cuttings 
or Layers. Thofe Pears that are grafted on Pear Stocks, are beft for 
light, mellow, warm Soils ; and thofe on Quince Stocks, for wet and 
cold Lands, fome few Sorts of Pears excepted, that will thrive better on 
Quinces then on Pear Stocks : ¢ contra. 
PEARS may be grafted on a White Thorn, and Cherries on the 
Laurel, but the Fruit is nothing the better, and Spee! 2 more. for 
Cutiog ity than Ufe. 
-— APRICO TS and Plumbs are both rais’d on Plumb Stocks, the firlt 
by Inoculation, the latter by Grafting. 
PEACHES and Netiarines are propagated by Inoculation, either 
on Peach Stocks, Almond Stocks, Mufcle, White Pear-Plumb, and St. 
Fulian Stocks. Thofe on Peach and Almond Stocks, are beft for hot 
light Lands, and the Plumb Stocks for thofe that are more ftrong and 
cold. But there are many Sorts of Peaches that are very difficult to 
make take 0 on. 1 either uee or Plumb ao that. will very eafily on the 
Apricot ; an | Ornrr o..the Cu rious, That all their 
Trees, which they intend to be of the bef Kind of Peaches and Neéta- 
rines, be firft made Apricot Trees by Inoculation, and afterwards budded 
with the feveral oe of Eanes that they defie t to have plenty. of. 
 CHERRYI-S r ONE AY eae Kernels of Crabs and Pears, fhould 
be laid thin and well dry’d d, when firkt clear’d of their Pulps;, and as 
foon as the Moifture of the Winter. will permit, they fhould be fown in 
Beds of well-prepar ‘d Mould, that i is in Nature moderately light and 
moift ; being cover'd with. fine. Mould, about two Inches thick, and-a 
good. Coa of rotten Dung over that, to preferve them from the Winter’s 
Gals, during their Germination. | 
YOU muft not forget to fet a fufficient Number of Traps for the 
= each of Mice, which otherwife will deftroy the Kernels, and dif- 
"appoint you of your Hopes : A And in March, when the Frofts are over, 
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