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Curiofities touching Plants. 
Curiofity to have feveral Fruits upon one Tree; and thie more, 5 Os 
| therefore, I doubt, whether you can have Apples, or Pears, or Orenges, 
| upon the fame Stock, uponwhich you graft Plumbs. 
~ Te is aCuriofity to have Fruits of divers Shapes andFigures. Th’s is| 502. 
eafily performed by Moulding them,when the Fruit is young, with Moulds 
fof Earth or Wood. So you may have Cucumbers, &c. as long as a 
Cane, orasround asa Sphere, or formed like a Crofs. You may have 
jalfo Apples in the form of Pears or Lemmons. Youmay have alfo Fruit 
| in more accurateFigures; aswe faid of Men, Beatts, or Birds, according 
} as you make the Moulds, wherein you muft underftand, that you’ make 
: the Mould big enough to contain the whole Fruit, when itis grown to the 
‘greateft ; for elfe you will choak the{preding of the Féuit , which other- 
} wife would{preditfelf, and fillthe Concave, and fo be turned into the fhape 
+ fired ; as itis‘in Mould-orksof Liquidthings. Some doubtmay be an 
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