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beft, if not excelling* Thefe difquifitions of the choiceft 
fruits for drink, are modern,and in my memory were 
fcarcely regarded in any part of England that I could 
hear of For the beft feafon to tranfpiant^ Dr. Lauremberg 
a perfon of much experience, and no lefs learned in ihz 
beft old /^uthors,agreech pundually in allcircumftances, 
and for the like reafons, with the fore-noted worthy 
G£ntleman,that Plants,which cannot well bear the hard- 
lliip of the Winter^lhould be tranfplanted in the Spring , 
but that fuch as are able to bear the extremity of a cold 
wii^ter^fliould be tranfplanted in Autumn^ In this only he 
differs, ih2ithti2i\X.\\,Poma^pira,cerafa vulgaria.coryli^oxyo* 
canthi,pruna^8>cc,facile frigus ferunt^ ^ Autumnotranjplan' 
iarioptimo [uccejjii [olent\ and then for the Spring he re< 
f<ers juglandes^perficay abricoca^aliquot eerafof urn genus. Lau^ 
remb.de Hortxul(XxU2% J ihinkyVfhQvehQVfrotc and pra- 
tStifedjis as cold aCountry as Englandhm the more we are 
obliged for thefe latter Experiments,and for the friendly 
and feafonable caution to decline adventures againft the 
rageof winter.Onthc fuddeu I fee nogoodreafon,why 
we Ihould expofc any Plants to the hazard of the winters 
crueltyjfince tender plants profper infallibly by a Ver- 
nal tranfplantation 3 yet I muft tellyou/tis an old Englifli 
and a WelfhProrerb concerning J^pples^Pears, and the 
HaW'thorn-quick, Oaks - Set them at Allhallontide, and 
command them to profper 0 fet after Candlemas^ and intrcat 
themto growi Mr. Reed's pleafant obfervation of thepru- 
dence and fagacity of B^^/,invites me to ask, why we have 
fo few -/Apiaries in England according to Mr. Mewe's mo» 
dell^reprefented in ^for//?4*s Common-wealth of Bees, Pag^ 
48. 6cc* which gave him the entertainment at any time 
to view their Mechanical skil, ChymiftryjInduflry^Loy^ 
alty, and Difctpline through the glafs-windows of his 
Hive, and paid him alfo wax and hony worth twenty 
nobles yearly at the leaft*/ wifli this Koyal and Loyal in^ 
