The or doing» f the 0 it hard. 
ding ro the fcinde : but oftentimes this kinde of propagation mifferlyn that it ienderh 
not forth rootes fufficient to caufc it to abide any long time. Let me yet before ] leauc 
this narration of Plummcs, giue youor.eadihonition more, that vporr whatfoeucr 
Plumme ftockeyou doc graft, yet vpon a Damfon ftocke that you neuer ft riuc ro graft 
for it (aboueall other forts of Plumme ftockes) will neuer giue you a tree worth your 
labour. It remaineth only of ftone fruit, that I fpeake of Cornelles, which as yet I nc- 
uer faw grafted vpon any ftocke, being asitflrould reemevtterly repugnant to the na- 
ture tnercof, to abidegrafting, but is wholly rayfedvp (as I Paid before) eytherfrotn 
the ftoncs,or from the fuckers or layers. For Peares and Apples your vfuall ftockes to 
graft on are(as I laid before, fpeaking ofthe nurfing vp of trees from the kernels)your 
Crabbe ftockes, and they bee accepted in euery Countrey of this Land as they may 
cormeniently be had, yet many doe take theftockesof better fruit, whethir they bee 
fuckers, or ftockes rayfed from the kernels (and the moft common and knowne way 
of grafting, is in the ftocke forallfortsof them, although fome doe vfe whipping 
packing cm, or inching, as euery one lift to call it : but now we doe in many places be- 
gin to dealc with Peares and Applesas with other ftone fruit, that is, graft them all in 
the bud, which is found the moft compendious and fafeft way both to pre/crue your 
ftocke from periling, and to bring them the foonerto couer the flock, as alfo to make 
thegoodherand ftraightertree, being grafted at what heightyoupleafe:) forthofe 
ftockes that are rayfed from the kernels of good fruit (which are for the moft partea- 
fily knowne from others, in that they want thofe thornes or prickles the wilde kindes 
are armed withall:) I fay for the moft part ; for I know that the kernels of fomc °ood 
fruite hath giuen ftockes with prickles on them (which, as I thinke, was becaufe that 
good fruite was taken from a wiidc ftocke that had not beene long enough grafted to 
alter his wilde nature ; for the longer a tree is grafted, the more ftrength the fruite ta- 
keth from the graft, and the leife ftill from the ftocke) being fmoother and fairer then 
the wilde kinds, muft needes maiea goodlier tree, and will not alter any whit the tafte 
ofyour fruit that is grafted thereon, but rather adde fome better rellifli thereunto ■ for 
the Crabbe ftockes yeeldinghar(hfruite,muft giue part oftheir nature to the graf ts arc 
fet thereon, and thereforethetafteorrellifti, as well as fomeother naturali properties 
of moft fruits, are fomewhat altered by the ftocke. Anotherthing I would willingly 
giue you to vnderlhnd concerning your fruits and ftockes, that whereas diuers for cu- 
riofity and to try experiments haue grafted Cherries vpon Plumme ftockes, or Plums 
on Cherry ftockes, Apples vpon Peare ftockes, and Peares vpon Apple ftockes, fome 
of thefe haue held the graft a yeare, two or three peraduenture, but I neuer knew that 
cuerthey held long, or to beare fruite, much Idle to abide or doe well : beftow not 
therefore your paines and time on fuch contrary natures, vnleffe it be for Curiofitie, as 
others haue done : Yet 1 know that they that graft peares on a white thorne ftocke 
haue had their grafts feeme to thriue well, and continue long, but I haue feldomefeene 
the fruite thereof anfwerable to the naturali wilde Peare ftocke ; yet the Medlar is 
knownetotnrhiebeft on a white thorne. And laftly, whereas diuers doe affirme that 
they may haue not only good ftockes to graft vpon, but alfo faire trees to bear ftorcof 
fruit from the kernels of Peares or Apples being prickt into the ground, and fuffered 
to grovy without remouing, and then cyther grafted or fuffered to grow into great trees 
vngrafred; and for their bearing of fruite, afligne a dozen or twenty ycares from the 
nrft fetting ofthe kernels, and abiding vngrafted, I haue not feenc or heard that expe- 
rience to hold certaine, or if it (ltould be fo, yet it is too long time loft, and too much 
fruit alfo, to watte twenty ycares for that profit may be gained in a great dcale of ieffe 
time, and with more certainty. Vnto thefe inftrudions let meeadde alfo one more, 
which is not much known and vfcd,and that is, to haue fruit within foure or fine years 
from toe firft fowing of your (tones or kernels in this manner : After your ftones or 
kernels are two or three yearcs old, takethefairefttoppe or branch, and graft it as you 
would doe any other cyon taken from abearing tree, and looke what rare fruite, cy ther 
Peareor Apple, the kernell was ofthat you fowed, or Peach or Plum &c.the ftone was 
fet, fuch fruite (hall you haue within twoorthreeyearesat the moft after the grafting, 
if it take, and the ftocke be good. And thus may you fee fruit in farre lefle time then to 
flay vntill the tree from a kernell or ftone beareth frurt of it felfe. 
