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roots of ^ oldtr trees ^ beCaufc they will be iJiore apt to take 
10 fap and nourifti the braoch grafted ioto themv 
The bcft roots of all, arc thofc that come of keroelsjwhich 
may be drawn at one5two or three years old, according to 
thtir growth. One plant muft yield fevcral R^ots actording 
■ to its bigDcfk ■ ^. ■ , ' . . 
The informer afliircs us^that 29 years fince he (owed a bed 
of apple »kerDe!s in i^^irrA, in which year he plantcdan Or- 
chard of Apple-trees and Pear-trees that coft n.^f. the trce^ 
The ipring following he pluckt up 40 of thofc fecdlings , 
growoto the thicknefsof a fair graft, he grafted them in this 
manner of tongue- grafting 5 and planted th^m again. They 
sttgrew, and four of them bore fruit to perfedion that year; 
fo that in a year and half from an apple-kernel he had ripe 
fruit* Four of thofe trees, bought at the tree, died 5 
for want of a better fupply, four of theft trees thus gra fted 
were planted in the rooms of thofe which died* Thefe four 
trees will now bear two quarters of apples upon a tree ; and 
are bigger than moft of thofe trees amongft which they ftandj 
which coft 1 2* the tree, when thefe were Kernels* He dotji 
conceive, that plumbs, cherries, apricotts , peaches, a^d all 
ibrts of fruit-trees may be thus raifcd 5 but he hath notimadp 
an Experiment any further then upon apples and pears. 
If any dcfire to be further fatisfied of the executive part 
of this , ' and the fucceft of it , they may repair to toinam 
High-Crofs four miles from £(7»^(7» in the road to JF^r^, where 
ihey thcmfclves may fee this performed > 
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^^TpHIS emineni Matbematiciatt divideth thfs Treatifeinto 
JL Five pa jtSj of which, / 
The f iril contaioetb his defcriptioa of the Peiidyuiii 
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