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Of Propagating Fruit-trees. 
C H A P. IV. 
Of the be& and ntoji expeditious ways 
of Propagating tfe federal Jorts of 
Fruit-trees for the faicl nfes. 
SECT. r. 
Of Propagating the Apple-tree. 
T Here is no Fruit-tree in this whole Ifle 
of Great Britain , that is fo univerlal 
as the Apple-tree 5 there being but few pla¬ 
ces, and but little land, wherein it de- 
lighteth not; hardly any place fo cold or 
moift, hot or dry, but it will thrive and 
bear Fruit. Neither is there any Fruit- 
tree more eafily Propagated, nor any that 
bears fo great a burthen of Fruit, as this' 
doth : Therefore is the planting and in- 
creafing of them more to be encouraged 
and promoted than of any other, confider- 
ing alfo the excellency of the Liquor ex- 
traded from its Fruit. For the Propaga¬ 
ting whereof, the firft thing to be confi- 
dered 
