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advireth by all means to graft good graffs upon fuch Apple-ftocks 
as are produced from theSeedjand have been deprived of theirHcar:- 
root, which is that which fliootsdireaiy downwards. ll?id. 
■ Againft Caterpillars and black Flyes^hc prefer ibes as an excellent 
remedy^to take Rue,Wormwood,and right Virginian Tobacco, of 
each a handful, and to boyle it together in two pails of water or 
fomewbat lefs,in a Kettle,for half an hour, and having ft rain d it, to 
befprinkle two or three times the Trees, when bloflbming there- 
with. Ibid. 
To keep wholc<^»/>w found for a great whilc,he advifes to ga^ 
ther them with the hand in the full Moon of OSicher in dry weather, 
and being well rubb'd and freed from all ihevchamgo or woolinefs, 
to put them in dry faw-duft or fand in a dry place, without letting 
Ihem touch one another. 
To this he fubjoyns his way of keeping f^<?mW and other fruit 
all the year long. 
Difcourfing of the ilatantu^ or Plantain-tree, he mentions one of 
recorded in Hiftory, fourfcore foocbig in compafs, wherein 
fuch a cavity was made, that hucinm Mutiawi^^ Conful of Romcy 
often dined with eighteen in company* 
Defcribing the Khamnm Catharticw recentiorum^ otherwife S^i- 
na InfettorU^ht oblSrves, that the fruit of it, before 'tis ripe^bcing 
dried a licle, and infufed in coftimon or Allum-warer, yields a yel- 
low colour 5 but being full ripe, a green. 
Treating of the Tilia or the Lime-tree ^\\^ takes notice,that where- 
as anciently they ufed the inner-bark thereof,calIed phi/jra^to write 
upoDjhimfelfhath feena whole book made of fuch bark all written 
upon,which was above looo years old, and that A^. 1662. one of 
fuch books was bought by the Count of St, Amour ^ then Governor 
of Arrod^foT the Emperors ufe,at the rate of Sooo and odd Dutch 
Gilders, which had formerly been in the Library of Card^Mazarm 
ac wherein was written that never yet publifh'd pkc€ of Mar- 
CU'S Cicero de crdimnda Kefublica^ and de Inveniendis OtAtionum Ex- 
0Ydiis 5 the which he faith is now kept amongft the Cimeiia of the 
^m^xowx^i Vienna. 
Defcribing the nature and ordering of the Cinnamm-tree^ of 
which one had been fent to the Author^ and came in a good conditi- 
on to his handsj he relates, that thofe in Ceylon are the beft fort of 
alljwhich bear a w^hite and very fragrant flower, and an oval black 
fruit, and of which the fccond bark yields the right Cinamon : To 
which he adds the great care he ufed in preferving that, which was 
fent him, by houfing it by times in a room furniffi'c with a warm 
ftove, and by keeping: it there till JM&y, and fbmetijnes 
