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Show POMONA: Or, An Appendix concerning Fruict- Trees, &c. Zablefo’tis now our main bufinefs to fearch after fuch as are excellent for their Liquor, either as more pleafant, more winy, or more 1. That ‘tis in vain to expect change of Apples from Graffing upon differing Stocks of Crabs or Apples. lafting, of which fort the Bosbary bare-land-Pear excels. The Redftrake, Bromebury-Crab, and that other much celebrated Wlding call'd the Oaken-piz, asthe belt for Cider 5 though for faffici- ent reafons we do yet prefer the Red-/frake, to oblige the evsulatiow of other Coxntries, ‘till they find outa Fret which thal] excell it, and which we do moft heartily with. But to purfue the diligence of the Avtients, we direct the eye toa general expedient for all kindeof varieties imaginable, and which we hold far better thanto prefent the World with a Lif of the particulars either known, or experimented: For who indeed but a Fool will dare to tell Wonders in this fevere dge, and upon an Argument whichis fo environ'd with Impofture in molt Writers old ornew ¢ Much lefs pretend to Experiments which mayfail tofucceed bydefault of anunhappy occafion, when the conclufion mutt be Penes Authorem fit fides! Andtruly men receiveno fimall difcouragement from the ugly affronts of Clowus, and lcs cultivated perfons,who laugh and {corn at every thing which is above their under{tanding: For examples 2, Invain alfo are we to look fora kind Tree from a very mtich differing Stock; as analtered Pear to grow kindly on a€rab or Ap: pxe-flock, G contra. There go about indeed fomejugglings, but wedifdain to name them. Itisone thing to find the kindeft stock for the Improvement of any Fruits asthe Crab-ffock for the delicate Apple, the Wildor Black: Cherry- Stock,for the graffs ofthe fairelt Cherries s the largeft Vine, (whole root makes beft fhift for relief) to accepr the Graff of the more delicate Viney the White Pear-Plum Stock, tor the Abricot, &c. And another thing it isto feck the Stock which begets the wonder, variety, and that fame tranfcendent and particular excellency we inquire after: For this muft beat more remote dis ftance; and we offer from the dzcients to fhew, howit may be at any diftance whatfoever: But the whole expedient feems to be hinted by Sir H. Plat,pag. 72. where he affirms, that If two Trees growtogether, that be apt to be graffed one into another, then let one branch juto another, workmanlyjoyning Sapto Sap. This our Gardi> wers call Graffing by Approach,and is explicated at large by Columella. I knew a man (writes Dr. Bealetome) and hea moft diligent Planter and Grafler, who for thirty or fourty years wade innumerable EC {ays to producefome change of an Apple by Graffing : Itfeems he was ambitious to leave bis Name onfach a Fruit, if he could have obtain- far fhort of old experience; as we find in Parag. 63. where he af= firms, We way not graff acontrary Fruit thereon. Againtt this we Crab-ftocks, or fach (at leat) as did not greatly differfrom the kinds and heever found that the Graft would predominate. And how Nurfery s as it isnot only affirm’'d, but ferioufly undertaken, and experimentally proved by the fober Columella, in feveral of his Advice, we leave to obfervation. However,let usadd, That where nothing is more facile than to raife new kinds of Apples(in infinitum) from Kernels : Yet in that phens Edition: ) Sedcum antiqni megaverint poffe omne genus furculorun: in omnem Arboreninfers, @ illam quaft finitionem, qua nos paulo ante ufi fumus, wveluti quandan legem fanxerint, eos bantam farcnlos poffe coalefcere, qui fint cortice, aclibro, & frat confinsiles counter more thantwo or three perfons that did believeit - Butin gis arboribus quibus inferuntur 5 exiftimavimus errorem hujus opini- ed its but always failds for he perpetually made kis Trials upon infinitely fuch Men having loft their ownaims, will defpife better Apple-Country (fo much addicted to Orchards) we could never en- other places we meet with manythat, on theother fide, repute Wildings,or (as they call them) Kernel-fruit, at alladventure, and withone choice, to be the very beft of Cider-fruit, and to make the moft noble Liquor, ‘So much does the common judgment dif- Butin this exprefs Rule le is too narrow for our purpofe, and urge; That any contrary Fruit may be adventured, and any Fruit uponany fruiclefs Stock growing in propinquityin the fame Treatifes ; Tura tothe eleventh Chapter of his fifth Book, (Ste- onis difcutiendum, tradenddmque pofteris rationens, qua poffit omne genusfurculi omni generé Arboris injeri. Andthe example follows ina Graffof an Oliveinto a Fig-ftock by Approach (as wecall it,) which he alfo repeats in the twenty feventh Chapter of bis Book fer in feveral Countries, though at no confiderable diftance, even in matters of vilible Fack,and epidemical experience. De Arboribus, without alrering a fyllable. on an Elz, it changes the Apple, and particularly to ared colour = I havea Direction where we may be eye-witnefles of the proof5 attempt thefe ftrange Atarriages, and did not fore the Graff with the Tree; confult 4b. 1, cap. 40. Andyet you may fee this Art af- rect Hercules’s Pillars no news to Varro 200 years older; where he goes on, [thas been {oberly affirmed, that bygraffing any White Apple up- whatever the Truth ofit be, we are not over-haftily to ebut rather to encourage the Experi- wert. To gratifie yet the Ingeniows, inftruct others, and emancipate us all from thele baflinado-Clowns, we are furnith’d with many 4r- guments and proofs to aflure a good fuccefs, at leaft for variety and change, ifnot for infinite choice : Two or three antient References being duly premis'd ; namely, Firft, But poflibly io this check at the Ancient he might aim at old Varro, whomwe find threatning nolefsthan Thunderbolts and Blafts to thofe who thould fum'd byColzmel/a for his own invention (1500 years fince) to be Eft altera fpesies exarbore in arborem inferendi muper animadverfa in arboribus propinguis, &c. Thoughhere again we may queftion our Matters nuper animaduerfa too; fince before he was bornCato relates it asufual to Graff Vinesin the manner by them preferibed, cap. 41. Tertia infitio cSt : Terebra vitem quam inferes, &c. Which by the way makes us admire howthe witty Walchins in his Difcourle ™ vilibus |