5 a Of Propagating Fruit-trees. 
diffolves the bonds of that Spirit of the 
World that flowes into all Vegetables, and 
from them into Animals, to the maintain¬ 
ing of that Univerfal Harmony that is in 
the precedes of Nature. 
Maurer of Several ways, in feveralages, have been 
Crafting. fo unc ] ou t for the grafting of one Species 
ofTreesinto another, for its melioration; 
no Hiftory mentioning its firft difcovery, 
although it has been long pradtifed. 
Virgil. Et fepc alterius ramos in/pune videntus 
Vertere in alterius , mutatamq^ injitamala. 
And o ft without impairing we may fee 
The Bought of one graff'd in another Tree. 
The mod: common, and, as may be fup- 
pofed, the moft antient way,is the grafting 
in the Stock; and that is, either by clea¬ 
ving the Stock, or grafting in the Rind, or 
by Whip-grafting. 
i„ t h e Grafting in the Cleft, is to cut off the 
cle ft. Stock at a fmooth place at the height you 
intend; and if the Stock be finall, from 
one to three inches diameter, then cleave 
it, that the flit may be on the fmootheft fide 
of the Stockland fit your Graff, fhouldering 
it at a Jojnt or Bud, joyning the infide of 
the Rinas exactly. The 
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