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Show POMONA. CHAP. I. Of the Seminary. E had notthe leaft intention to enla rge upon this 7#tle, after we had well reflecte many and accurate Directions whic d on the h are alrea- dy publifhed, as well in our French-Gardi ner, as in fundry other Treatifes of that nature, had p, Beale not a moft worthy Afember of the Royal Society (to whom we Yeavil in? have infinite Obligations) furnifhed us with fome things very Somerfetparticular and remarkable, in order to the impr ovement of our Sew ® minaries , Stocks, &c. which are indeed the very Bafi sand Foxndation ofCider-Orchards. tis from thofe precious papers of his, andof fome ethers (whofe Obfervations alfo have richly contributed to this Enterprize) that we fhall chiefly entertaih our Planter in moft of the following Periods. Whofoeverexpects from the kernel of arich or peculiar Apple or Pear toraife Fruit of thefame kind, is like ly to find many obftruCions and difappointments : For the Wilding, mus Sylvefiris, being at the beft the natural pro(Crabor Pear) Podué of eft kernelin the firmeft land, and therefore the guft the foundof the Fruit moreftrongly auftere, fierce, and fharp,and alfo the Fruit lef and more woody5 and the pleafanter or plum per and larger Apple bee ing the effect of fome inteneration, whic hinclines toa kind of rebatement of the naturalftrength of the Trees the belt choice of kernels for Stocks indefinitely, (and on whic h we may graff what we pleafe) fhould be from the foundeft Wilding. For, A kernel taken from any graffed- Apple, as Pepi n, Pear-main, &e. does moft naturally propend tothe wildaefs of the Stock on which ‘twas inferted, asbeing thenatural mother of the kermel, which isth e very heart of the Apple; andalfofrom a mor e deep and feApples and Pears requiring rather a vulgar and ordi nary Fieldland, thana rich Garden-mould, (as has been often feen to fucceed cret Reafon, to be hereaftér unfolded, by frequent Obfervations) it hasbeen found that kern els fowed in a very high compoff, andrank earth, have produced (/arge inde ed) buténfipid Fruit, haftily rotting onthe Trees, before all the part s of it were mature. Vid. Aphor. 33. And fometimes when they feemed in outwardfig ure to bear the thape of graffed Apples, from whence the kernels came , yet the guit did utterly deceive,wanting that vivacity and pungent agreeablenefs, if |