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All thefe Sorts are very tender 

 Plants therefore will not thrive in 

 the open Air in England ; but they 

 are frequently fown in curious Gar- 

 dens for Variety : the two firft Sorts 

 will produce ripe Seeds in England, 

 if their Seeds are fown early in the 

 Spring, upon a good Hot-bed; and 

 when the Plants are come up, they 

 may be planted into feparatePots, and 

 plunged into an Hot-bed of Tanners 

 Bark, to bring them forward ; and 

 when they are grown too tall to re- 

 main under the Frames, removed 

 into the Tan-bed in the Stove, and 

 ftrifted into larger Pots, when their 

 Roots have filled the other: with 

 this Management, I have had their 

 Flowers appear in July ; and to- 

 ward the End of September the Seeds 

 have been perfectly ripe, and the 

 Pods as large as thofe produced in 

 the Eafi and Wejl-Indies i but if the 

 Plants are not brought forward early 

 in the Spring, it will be late in the 

 Summer before the Flowers will ap- 

 pear ; and there will be no Hopes 

 of the Pods coming to Perfection. 



The Shrub Cotton will rife from 

 the Seeds very eafily, if they are 

 fown upon a good Hot-bed ; and 

 when they are fown early in the 

 Spring, and brought forward in the 

 fame manner as hath been directed 

 for the former Sorts, the Plants will 

 grow to be five or fix Feet high the 

 fame Summer : but it is difficult to 

 preferve the Plants thro* the Winter, 

 unlefs they are hardened gradually 

 in Auguft during the Continuance of 

 the warm Weather ; for when they 

 are forced on at that time 5 they will 

 be fo tender, as to render them in- 

 capable of refilling the leaft Injury, 

 The Plants of this Sort • muft be 

 placed in the Bark-ftove in Autumn, 

 and kept in the firft Oafs of Feat ; 

 otherwife they will not live through 

 the Winter in England. 

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GRAFTING is the taking a 

 Shoot from one Tree, and inferring 

 it into another ; in fuch a manner, 

 as that both may unite clolely, and 

 become one Tree. This is called by 

 the antient Writers in Hufbandry 

 and Gardening, Incifion, to diftin- 

 guifh it from Inoculating or Bud- 

 ding ; which they call infer ere Ocu~ 

 los. , 



The Ufe of Grafting is to propa- 

 gate any curious Sorts of Fruits, fo 

 as to be certain of the Kinds ; which 

 cannot be done by any other Me- 

 thod ; for as all the good Fruits 

 have been accidentally obtained from 

 Seeds, the Seeds of thefe, when fown, 

 will many of them degenerate, and 

 produce fuch Fruit as are not worth 

 cultivating ; but when Shoots are 

 taken from fuch Trees as do pro- 

 duce good Fruit, thefe will never 

 alter from their Kind, whatever be 

 the Stock or Tree on which they are 

 grafted ; for though the Grafts re- 

 ceive the Nourifhment from the 

 Stocks, yet they are never altered 

 by them, but continue to produce 

 the fame Kind of Fruit, as the Tree 

 from which they were taken : the 

 only Alteration is, that when the 

 Stocks on which they are grafted do 

 not grow fo fait, and afford a fuffi- 

 cient Supply of Nourilhment to the 

 Grafts, they will not make near fo 

 great Progrefs, as they otherwife 

 would do ; nor will the Fruit they 

 produce be fo fair, and fometimes 

 not fo well flavoured. 



Thefe Shoots are termed Cions or 

 Graffs : in the Choice of thefe the 

 following Directions fhould be care- 

 fully obferved. jit, That they are. 

 Shoots of the former Year ; for 

 when they are older, they never fuc- 

 ceed well. 2dly, Always to take 

 them from healthy, fruitful Trees ; 

 for if the Trees are fickly from 

 whence they are taken, the Grafts 

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