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Show [ z.o2 T Or prints with graceful fieps the 1nargin green, And brighter glories gild the inchanted fcene. 2. " Where cruder juices fwell the leafy vein, 495 Stint the young germ, the tender bloifom fiain; On each lopp' d fuoot a fofl:er [cion bind, Pith prefs' d to pith, and rind applied to rind, So fhall the trunk with loftier creft afcend, And wide in air its happier anns ex.tend ; N urfe the new buds, admire the leaves unknown, And blufhing bend with fruitage not its own .. 500 Nurfo the new huds. I. sot. Mr. Fairchild budded a paffion-tree, whofe leaves · were (potted with yellow, into one which bears long fruit. The buds did not take, neverthelefs in a fortnight yellow fpots began to ihew themfdves about three feet above the inoculation, and in a 010rt time afterwards yellow fpots appeared on a ihoot which came out of the ground from another part of the plant. Bradley, Vol. I l. p. 129· Thefe faCls are the more curious Gnce from experiments of ingrafting red currants on black (lb. Vol. 11.) the fruit does not acquire any change of flavour, and by mauy other experiments neither colour nor any other change is produced in the fruit ingrafted on other {l:ocks. There is an apple defcribed in Bradley's work which is faid to have one fide of it a [\\'cet fruit which boils foft, and the other Gde a four fruit which boils hard, which Mr. Bradley fo long ago as the year 1721 ing~nioufly afcribes to the farina of one of thefe apples impregnating the other, which would fecm the more probable if we confider that each divi!ion of an apple is a feparate womb, and may therefore have a feparate impregnation like puppies of different kinds in one litter. The fame is faid to ha-ve occurred in oranges and lemons, and grapes of different celoms. [ 203 ] '' Thus when in holy triumP h' A aron trod A_nd o:ffer' d on the lhrine his myll:ic rod; ' Full: a new bark its filken tiifue weaves, New buds emerging widen into leaves • Fair fruits protrude' en ari cent fl owers ex, pand And blufh and tremble round the II' V.1 ng wand' . XIII. I. N s YLPHs ! on each Oak-bud wou. nd the wormy galls, '\Vith pigmy {i pears, or crulh the venom' d b 11 • F . h a s' sro ng t the green Locufl: fir om h'I s Ir oamy bed Unweave the Caterpillar's gluey thread; ' Chafe the fierce Earwig, fcare the bloated Toad ..1. \rreil: the Snail upon h.IS n.1 my road; , Ann wi~h l11arp thorns the Sweet-brier's tender wood And dafh the Cynips from her damafk bud . Steep in ambro:lial dews the W oodb1' ne ' s b e 1,1 s And drive the Niaht-moth from h h , ' 0 er oney d cells. D d ~ 516 |
