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Show Or, dn Appendix concerning Fruit-Trees, &c. POMONA: quire them 3 which has, it feems, occafion’d fome complaintfroiii them that underftand not the Reafon of the firft branch ofthis Note. Onceforall, the ftumpy Graff will be found much fupe- riourto the flender one,and make a much nobler and larger Shoot. This upon experience. : ; Graff your Cions on that fide of the Stockwhere it may receive the leaft hurt from the Sowth-weff Wind, it being the moft cem- mon, and moft violent that blows in Summers fo asthe wind may blow it tothe Stack, not fromit: And when the Zephyres of the Spring are ftirring, choofe that Seafow before all others for this work. Some there are whotalk of removing the Stock about Chriftzas, to be caftaway, have proved the beft when tri'd. Thus in honeft Barnaby Googes noble Heresbachivs you will find it comme nded to gather your Cions in the wane of the Afoon, at leaft ten days bé- fore you graffthem 3 and Conftantine gives this reafon foxit, That the Graff a little withered, and thirfty, may be the better received of the Stock: 1 know fome who keep them in Earth, from the end of Oéober, tillthe Spring, and will hardly ule them before. Thereare alfo other inducements for this practice, as Simon Harwood, pag.4.has fhew'd us3 but none beyond our own experience, who have known Grajfs gathered in December thrive and do perfectly well. The beft expedient to convey Graffs is to ftick the cat-ends in and then alfo graffit ; whichthere be that glory they can fucceffully do evenbythe fire fide, and fo not be forc'd to expect a two Clay, envelop'd witha clout to preferveit from falling off ; and to or three years rooting of the Stock; But in this Adventure ’tis advifeable to plunge the Graff three or four inches deep in the Stock. willfecure them both from the Winds, Galling, and other injuries in Tranfportation: Nay, I have known them fent many Laftly, Becirelif charts Rain get not into the clefts of your young graffed Stocks : Yet ithas been noted, That many old Trees(quite decay’d with an inward hollownefs) have bornas full burdens, and conftantly, asthe very foundeft, andthe Fruit found to be more delicate than ufually the fame kind from a perfect and more entire Stock. Except fome formercafe requires it,leave not your Graffs above four, five, or (at moft) fix inches of length abovethe Stocks for by the length it draws more feebly, and is more expos’d tothe fhocks of the Wind, or hurt by the Birds ; and you fhall frequently perceive the fummitics and tops of fuch young Grafs to be mortified and die. The Genet-moyle ig commonly propagated by cutting off the Branch little below a Burr-kaot, and fetting it without any more Ceremony; but if they be alfo graffed firft as they grow on the Tree, and when they have covered the head, cut off below the Burr, and fet, it is far better: In this feparation cut little beneath the Barr, andpeel off, or prick the Bark, almoft to the Awot < Thus alfo ifthe Branch have more k#ots than ome, you may graff, and cut off yearly, till within half a foot of the very ffem, which you maygraff likewife, and folet ftand. Now for encouragement in tran{porting Graffs at great diftance, we find that with little care (their tops uncut and unbruis‘d) they will hold good, and may fupport the tranfportation by Sea or Land from OGober or November to the very end of Afarch: See Sir H. Plat's Offers,Paragr. 75. Towhich maybeadded, Thatif the Graff receives no burt bylying inthe Stock expos'd toall rain, dews, and feverities of Winter frofts from December to Spring, (as has beenexperimentally noted); then (by a ftronger prefumption) in oyled, or rather waxen Leather, it may undoubtedly efcape. Some prefcribe, That the ezds fhall be ftuck ina Turzip : and many excellent Graffers (Gentlemen {ome of very good credit) have aflured us, That the Graffs which feemed withered, and fit to wrap the other part of the Twigsin dry Hay or ftraw-bands,which hundred Miles from beyond the Seas accommodated to an ordinary Letter, and though fomewhat fhort, and with very few Buds , yet withexcellent fuccels 5 and if this courfe were more univerfal- Jy confider’d, we might be furnifh’d with manygreat Curiofities with little difficulty or charge. CHAP. IV. Of Variety .and Improvements. F any man would have variety of unexpected and unknown | Appies and Pears, for the improvement of Cider, or Palatefrsit, there is more hope from Kernels rais‘d in the Nurfery Cas hag already been directed)than from fuch tryals of graffings as we have yet feen in prefent ufe. But if we would recover the patience, and the fedulity of the Antient (of which fome brief account will follow) or liften to fome unutual Propofals, then may we undertake for fome variety byInfitions. To delude none with Promifes, we do much rather recommend the diligence of enquiring from all Countries the beft Graffs of fuch Fruits as arealready found excellent for the purpofe we defign: As from the Targoviaws for that Pear of which Dr, Pe// gives fo good and weighty informations 5 and of which I had prefented me fome Graffs, together with a taft of the moft fuperlative Perry the World certainly produces; both which were brought near 800 Miles,without fuffering the lea{t diminution of Excellency,by my Worthy Friend Mr. Hake a Member of the R. Society, inthe year: 1666, and taftingashigh, and as rich as ever to the prefent year E am writing this Paragraph. Butas fome forts are to be enquired after for the Palate and i Table, |