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hedee. crat^sus, was thus planted and became a good fence con- 



fiderably fooner than from fowing the feed 

 The Chlnefe are fald W fir G. Staui 



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the art of ingraft 



and to prod 



to be unacquainted with 

 dwarf fruit-trees, which are 



to 



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brou-ht to table loaded with fruit at their feftivals, by furround 

 branch of a bearing fruit-tree at its bifurcation with a bag of earth 

 which is kept moift for fome months ; till the branch puts out roots 

 probably from the lips of a wound in the bark, and is at length fepa- 

 rated, and tranfplanted into a pot. Embaffy to China, Vol. II. p. 54 



8vo. ed 



d it 



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dered a dwarf by repeatedly 



the central buds, as in the management of melons, as mentioned 



in No. 2. 5. and 3. 2. of this Seaion. 



Vines poffefs fo vigorous a power of vegetation, that.the prefent 

 mod approved method of propagating them in grape-houfes confifts 



plantitig their fc 



The late Rev. Job 



Michel of Thornh 



in York(hire, the pbilofopher, who difcovered to the world the art of 

 makine artificial magnets, which had been concealed by Mr. Knight; 



Ion-- pofi[effed, and whofe lofs I have long lament 



whofe friendfhip I 



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amuf^d himfelf and family 



vacant hours in 



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hot-houfe 



The obfervations ot a man of fuch accurate and univerfal knowledg 



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y appeared 



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this fubjeft 

 Mr. Speechly's Culture of the Vine, I (hall 



ordins; and though his id 



here tranfcribe a part of one of his letters to me dated in May 



'' The way in which we raife our vines we account our own ; fo 

 I don't know, that it was pradifed by any body before we fet ' 



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It is 



w pretty g^enerally adopted however by the gar- 



deners and nurferymen in this part of the world 



Infi-ead of leaving 



the cuttings, as ufed formerly to be d 

 kward ftragglino; things, we never plant r 



three or four eyes on 



which made them aw 



than a fingle eye to each, cutting them with as long a part below 



the eye as they can admit, without encroaching too much upon th 



eye bel 



that is to fay, we leave perhaps about half an inch 



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