POMONA 
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Cquaints you with the fineft Garden-fruits, Vines 
& Berries,our Englifh Nurceries do afford;as al- 
fo with fome Flower-bearing Trees, Shrubs and 
Greens, more familliar than thofe you find in 
the firft book; with the order that is to be ufed 
in theirPropagation, Planting andImprovement, 
Good Gardens are tq be furnithed with rare 
Fruits, as well as fine Flowers, and although moft perfons of ability 
ac the firft plane their walls with Trees bought out of the Nurceries 
about Loudon, yet it will be neceffary for fuch (as well as others) to 
have a Quarter in the Nurcery, fet with choice Stocks of every kind, 
for the raifing of young Trees, that if any of the firft provifion either 
die, or fail to bear fuch Fruits as are defired, their places, out of their 
own ftore,may be fupplied with better ; befides, it is no {mall farisf,- 
tion to a Planter, to be affured what Fruits his Trees will bear : 
therefore before I proceed to the particulars, to prevent repetition, 
the following Rules neceffarily require to be inferted, and firft, 
For the raifing of Stocks for Garden- Fruits, the which are to be 
of four different kinds, as 4pples, Quinces, Plums,and Cherries 5 for 
Apples that you ma have dwarf-trees fit for Walls, the ftocks you 
‘mutt provide are thofe of the Paradife Apple, either raifed fromthe 
Kernels, or from Layers, the branches being as apt to roor as thofe 
of Codlings, in which you may graft what other good Apples you 
defire; but in refpeét thefe ftocks (of their own nature) grow Slowly, 
I have found out another expedient to help them forward, that is, 
by grafting the Cyenof the Paradife Appleina Crab, or other Apple- 
ock, clofe to the ground, withone gratt, and when that is grown to 
the bignefs of a finger, graft-thereon about eight inches higher, the 
~ fruit defired, which wil ftop che es growth of the tree, almoft 
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