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It hath been generally received j^hat a Plant watered with Warm Water,wi\\ 

 come up (boner and better, than with Cold Water, or with Showers, But 

 our Experiment of Watering Wheat with Warm Water ( as hath been faid ) fuc- 

 ceeded not •, which may be, becaufe the Triall was too late in the Year, viz. 

 in the end or October. For the Cold then coming upon the Seed, after it 

 was made more tender by the Warm Water, might check it. 



There is no doubt, but that Graftin^Soi the moft Part'jdoth meliorate the 

 Fruit, .The Caufe is manifeft For that the Nourifhment is better prepared in 

 the Stocky than in the Crude Earth : But yet note well, that there befome 

 T rees, that are faid to come up more happily from the Kernel/, than from the 

 Graft As the Peach, and Melocotonc. The Caufe I fuppofe to be, for that 

 thole Plants require a Nourifhment of great Moifture-,And though the Nou- 

 rifhment of the Stock be finer, and better prepared, yet it is not fo moiit, and 

 plentifully^ the Nouriihment of the Earth. And indeed we fee thofe Fruits 

 are very Cold Fruits in their Nature. 



It hath been received, that a Smaller Pear-, grafted upon a Stock that bear- 

 eth a Greater Pear, will become Great. But I think it is as true, as that of 

 the Prime- Fruit upon the Late Stock 5 And e controverfo h Which we rejected 

 before : For the Cions will govern. Neverthelefs it is probable enough, that 

 ifyoucangetaC/^togrowupon a Stock of another kind, that is much 

 moifter than his own, Stock,u. may make the Fruit Greater, becaufe it will 

 yeeld more plentifull Nourifhment • Though it is like it will make the Fruit 

 Bafer.But generally the Grafting is upon a drier Stock ; As the Jpple upon a 

 Crab 5 The Pear upon zThorne^Stc. Yet it is reported,that in the Low- Coun- 

 tries they will graft an Applc-Cions upon the Stock of a Colewort, and it will 

 bear a great flaggy Apple ^The Kernell of which,if it be fet, will be a Colewort, 

 and not an Apple.lt were good to trie, whether an Apple- Cions will profper, 

 if it be grafted upon a Sallow, or upon a Poplar, or upon an Alder , or upon 

 an Elm, or upon an Horfe-Plum, which are the moifteft of Trees. I have 

 heard that it hath been tried upon an Elm, and fucceded. 



It is manifeft by Experience, that Elmers Removed wax greater, becaufe 

 the Nourilhment is inoreeafily come by, in the loofe Earth. It may be, that 

 Oft Regrafting of the fame Cions, may likewife make Fruit greater 5 As if 

 you take a Cions, and graft it upon a Stock the firit year And then cut it off, 

 and graft it upon another Stock the fecond year; And fo for a third -,Or fourth 

 year •, And then let it reft, it wilf yeeld afterward, when it beareth, the grea- 

 ter Fruit. 



Of Grafting there are many Experiments worth the Noting , hut thofe we re- 

 serve to a proper Place. 



It maketh Figs better,if a Fig-Tree, when it beginneth to put forth Leavs, 

 have his- Top cut off. The Caufe is plain, for that the Sap hath the lefs to 

 feed, and the lefs way to mount : But it may be the Fig will come fome- 

 what later, as was formerly touched. The fame may be triedlikewife in o- 

 mjk Trees. 



It is reported, that Mulberries will be fairer, and the T rees more Fruitfully 

 if you bore the T runk of the T ree thorow, in feverall places, and thruft into 

 the Places bored, Wedges of feme Hot Trees, as Turpentine, Maftick-Tree, 

 Guaiacum^ Jumper, &c, The Caufe may be, for that Adventive Heat doth 

 chear up the Native Juyce of the T ree. 



It is reported , thatTwi wiil grow greater, and bear better Fruit , if 

 you put Salvor Lees of Wine,o\: Bloud to the i^r.The Caufe may be the En- 



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