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the poor shall have somewhat in time of want to relieve 

 their necessitie, and God shall reward your good minde 

 and diligence." The same author gives us a peculiar use 

 of the apple which may be interesting to some who never 

 before associated pomaium with the products of the or- 

 chard. He recommends apples as a cosmetic. " There is 

 made an ointment with the pulp of apples, and swine's 

 grease and rose water, which is used to beautify the face 

 and to take away the roughness of the skin ; it is called 

 in shops pomatum, of the apples whereof it is made." * 

 When speaking of the importance of grafting to increase 

 the number of trees of any good variety, Virgil advises to 



** Graft the tender shoot, 

 Thy children's children shall enjoy the fruit." 



So high an estimate did Pliny have of this fruit, that he 

 asserted that " there are apples that have ennobled the 

 countries from whence they came, and many apples have 

 immortalized their first founders and inventors. Our best 

 apples will immortalize their first grafters foreV'er ; such 

 as took their names from Manlius, Ccstius, Matins, and 

 Claudius." — Of the Quince apple, he says, that came of a 

 quince being grafted upon the apple stock, which " smell 

 like the quince, and were called Appiana, after Appius, 

 who was the first that practiced this mode of grafting. 

 Some are so red that they resemble blood, wliich is caused 

 by their being grafted upon the mulberry stock. Of all 

 the apples, the one which took its n.ame from Petisius, 

 was the most excellent for eating, both on account of its 



* Our lexicographers give it a similar origin, but refer it to the shape in whicli 

 it was put up. Others derive it from poma, Spanish, a box of perfume. 



