New Principles of Gardening. 
This done, the Cions may defcend downright 
Into the Cleft ; and with the Stock unite. 
Though others im the Rind, betwixt each Bud, 
Make an Incifion, and the Graft include 5 
Which, by Degrees, zs afterwards inclin’d 
Tincorporate it felf with the moift Rind. 
Some like a flender Pipe the Bark divide, 
Or like a Scutcheon, fut it down the Side, 
Or the hard Trunk, which a fbarp Anger cleaves, 
Into its folid Part the Graft recetves: 
Mean while, with Care, the Branches which are joined, 
You with a feven-fold Cord muft firong bind, 
And all the Chinks with Loam and Bafs defend ; 
For if the cruel Air fhould once defcend 
Into the Cleft, it would impede thew fuice, 
And to the Plant its Noursbment ref ufe. 
But if thefe Dangers i has ouce endured, 
When the adopted Branch 1s well fecured. 
By their Conjun&tion, Trees there Nature loofe ; 
That which was wild before, more civil grows. 
Unmindful of their Mother, they forfake 
The Tafie, which they from her at firft did take. 
From yellow Quinces and Cornelians 7z/é 
Fruits, which are differenc’d by various Dies 5 
The Pear thus mends ; the Slow affords good Plums 5 
vide the ie Cherry better now ed bo 
rom diffrent Boughs diftin uile’d Species [oo0t 3 
But now I tell how soi muft orn ete iE 
What Branches with each other you may oitt, 
What Sorts will beft in Amity combine. — 
All Kind of Pears the Quinces entertaim,— 
And then receiv’d with their own Tincture flain. 
The hoary Pears their Tajie to Apples give, : 
They with the Shrubby Willow tao will live. 
The Fig. would love the Mulberry, #f that 
Its blacker Hue would fomewhat moderate. 
Cherries with Laurels d/ufbes will compound 5 
Apples with Apples do their Tafle confound. 
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