Of Propagating Fruit■ trees. *j 7 
Some of late have attempted to raife Newman- 
Nurferies or Plantations, by whipping the 
Graff to a piece of a Root of a Tree of the 
fame fpecies, and fb to plant it in the 
ground, a little lower than the grafting 
place, that the Earth may cover the wound, 
that the Root may feed the Graff, as the 
Stock doth in the former ways. Thus with 
the Root of one Crab-tree cut in pieces, may 
you raife twenty or thirty Apple-trees. Ana 
thus may you unite the Graft to a Stock of 
a different kind, whereby new Fruits may 
be produced, and the old meliorated 3 the 
wound being within the ground, and not 
obvious to the ext reams of the weather. 
This only is objected, that the Tree grows 
but flowly, moft affecting expedition in 
thefe affairs. 
For it cannot be expected that a piece 
of a Root, newly planted, fhould fb rea¬ 
dily attratt lap as that which hath been 
fixed before in the ground: and if it doth 
not, how then can it afford plentifull nou- 
rifhment to a Graff, which is required in 
the uniting of the Graff to the Stock? for in 
in fouldring of wounds more radical moi- 
fture is required than in an ordinary pre¬ 
servative Circulation. And in this cafe you 
have a threefold want of lap or nourifh- 
ment. 
