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7heCraffe and the fiockjo clofe more eafly together j
fork is very helpful to glewor faftcn the skins of both the barks one into tbeo- fcher : and if the barks be of a divers nature, yet by this lome they may be fo bound into one, that they will eafily grow together. Andfurelyit is commodious in ma- ny refpe&s. Firft, becaufe, as in mans body, the flefh being wounded or pierced into, is foon clo fed up again with ftiffe and clammy plaiflers applyed thereunto; fo the bark or the boughs of Trees being cut or rent, will clofe together again very fpeedily , by the applying of this morter. For if you pill the bark eff from a Tree, or flip off a little fprig from a bough, unleffe you clofe it up fo cunningly, that it may ftick as fitly every way in the graffing as whilft it grew , it will foon wither, and fade, andlofe the natural juice and moifture ; which inconvenience this lome will prevent , and fit them one into another. Moreover, if there be any open chink betwixt the bark and the Tree , prefently the air getteth in, and wi lnoc fuffer them to clofe j therefore to makeitfure that they may clofe without fai , this lome is needful. And whereas there are fome Trees which cannot away to be harboured in any of another kind, this lome will knit them fo ftrongly into the ftock,that they cannot but bud and bloffom. But here we muft obferve, that this glue or morter muft be as neer of the nature of the thing engrafted as may be; for then it will perform this duty more kindly. If you be diligent herein, you may do many matters. We will give you a tafte of fome , that by thefe you may learn to do the like. Pill eff the bark of Holly, and make a pit in lome moift ground, and there bury your Holly rines, and let them there pu- trifie , which will be done in twelve daies : then take them forth , and ftamp them till you fee they are become a clammy flime.This is alfo made of the fruit Se- beften in Syria • and likewife it may be made of ordinary birdlime : but the beft of all is made of the rines of Elm-roots ftamped together; for this hath a fpecial quali- ty, both to fatten, and alfo to chcrifh. But let us return to graffing, which is of fuch great force, that it hath caufed a new kind of a baftard fruit that was never heard of before) namely
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i jin Apple compounded of a Peach-Apple-) and a J^tt- peach;
., i Lib ?w ft «w vi v-ll .'■ Virjoqrfloo -"A v^vmituai orhdiodo/; ;bibto3&* which kind of compound generation, was never feen, nor heard of, nor yet thought upon by the Ancient. This is to be done by a kind of graffing which they call eraplaftcring. . Take off two young fruitful Iprigges, one frcm a Peach-apple Tree, and the other from the Nut-peach Tree; but they muft be well grcw- cn, and fuch as are ready to budde forth. Then pare eff the bark of them abcuc two fingers breadth in compaffc , fo that the budde to be graffed may ; tdi Hand
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fttnd fitly in the midft betwixt them both j but you muft do it charily, left you perifh the wood. Then cleave them thorough the middle a little way, that they may be let one into another, and yet the cleft not feen, but covered with the bud* Then take off a bud from one of thofe Trees, with the bark round about the bud, and let it into the midft of the boughs which we fpake of before ; and fo cngriffe them together into the othec Tree, having firft cut out a round fit place for them therein. They muft be engrafted in that part of the Tree, which is moft neat and frcfh-coloured ; the fprigs that grow about that place muft be cutoff, left they withdraw the nourifhment from the graffe, which requires it all for it felh And when you have fo done, binde it about gently, that you hurt it not ; and cover It with Jomewhat, left the rain fall down upon it; but eipecially take heed to the cleft, and the place where you pilled off the bark, that you plaiftcr it up well with mortcr. Thus if you do , the graffe will very kindly proiper, and the bud grow forth into a fruit that is compounded of both kinds, and it (hall carry the hue both of the Peach-apple and the Nut-peach by equal proportion, fuch as was never feen before. By this means alfo we may procure the bringing forth
Of a Figge halfe white and half blackj for if we take the buds of each of them, paring them off together with the bark round about them, and then cut them in the middle, and put the half of one, and the half of the other together, and fo emplaifter them into the Tree, as we fpake before, the fruic thereof will be a Figge half white and half black. So alfo
Pomegranates may be brought forth , which will be fweet on the one ft demand fowre on the other ;
If you take either the fhoots or the buds of each of them, and after you have divi- ded them in the midft, put the half of each together, as before was fpoken. But this may be done beft upon the fhoots or fprigs • for the bud can h « rd!y be pared eff, nor well divided, becaufe the bark is fo weak, and fo thin, and (lender, thacic will not endure to be much or long handled. Like wife
Orenges compounded of divers kinds, and fitch as are half Limons\ as alfo Limons half
fweet y and halffowre, may be produced, if we mix them after the fame manner as we fpake before; for thefe are very fit to begraffed by emplaftering ; and thefe kinds of compound Orenges and Limons are very commonly to be feen in many Orchards in Naples, in like manner we may mingle and compound
A Peaeh of the white and the red Peach,
if we put thofe two kinds together, by fuch emplaftering : for there are of this compound fruit to be fold in Naples at this day. Likewife we may procure
A grape that hath a kerne/ or ft one half blacky and diverfly coloured. We muft deal by the fhoots of Vines, as we fhewed before wis to be done by the buds of other Trees ; cleave them in the middle, and binde two fhoots or more of divers forts of Vines handfomely together ,that they may grow up in one,and graff them into a fruitful Vine of fooae other kind. And the fame which we have fhewed concerning fruits, may be as well pracWcd alfo upon flowers. As for example j If we would produce
Rofes that ate half white and half red ;
we muft take the fprigs of a white Rofe,andof a red, and pare off the buds of each of them ; and having cut them afunder in the middle, put the halfs of each together, as we fpake before, and engtaffe them artificially into the bark, and then have a dili- gent care ft ill to cherifh them,tbe compound bud wil in due feafon bring forth Rofes which will be white of the one fide, and red of the other* But if yon would
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make trial hereof in Clove-gilli-flowers , and defire
To produce \ome that are half redy . feeing they have no buds at all, you muftpra&ife this experiment upon their roof; you muft take two roots of them, and cleave them in the middle, and match them fitly togcther,that they may grow each to other; and bindethem upwell, and then will they yeeld compound Clove-gilli-flowcrs : of which kind we have great ft ore, and they are common amongft us everywhere ; and they do not onely brino forth party-coloured flowers, but the very fame bough, and one and the fame fprig, will, bear white ones and red ones , and iuch as are wrought and as it were embroidred with divers goodly colours, moft pleafant to be feen.
Chap. IV. ' . Of a fecond means whereby fruits may be mingled and compounded together.
T"Here is alfo a fecond way of compounding divers kinds of fruits together ;
namely, by another manner of grafting. A* for example; If we would produce
'Pomegranates compounded of divers hmdsy
Theophraftus fheweth u> how to do ir. We muft take the young flips or branches of divers kinds, andbruife them mih a Beetle, fo that they may ftick and hang together; and then binde them up very hard each to other, and fet them in the ground: and if they be well laid together, all thofe flips will grow up jointly into one Tree ; butfo, that every one of them retains his own kind, and receives his feverai nourifhment by it felf, and feverally digefls it: and the chief community which they 'have all together, is their mutual embracing each of other. The fame Theophrafius teaches us in the fame place,
How one and the fame Vine-branch may bring forth a blach^and awhite grape both toge- ther ; and how in the fame grape may be found a -white and blacky fione hanging together, . . ' . • ~ .
Take the branch of a white Vine, and another of the black, and the uppermoft half of cither of them muft be bruifed together; then you muft match them equally, and binde them up together , and plant them : for by this means they will grow up both into one joint ; for every living thing may be matcht with another, efpe- cially where one is of the fame or the like kind with the other : for then if they be diflblved, as thefe are in fome fort when they are bruifed, their natures will eaGly clofe together, and be compact into one nature: but yet cither of thefe branches hath his feveral nourifliment by it felf, without confufion of both together ; where- by it cometh to pafle, that the fruit arlfing from them is of a divers nature, accor- ding as either of the fprigs requireth. Neither ought this to feem ft range, that both of them concurring into one, fliould yet retain each of them their fcverall kind, feeing the like.hereof may be found in certain Rivers which meet together by con- fluence into one and the fame channel, and yet either of them keeps his own feve- ral courfe and paff^ge ; as do the Rivers Cephifus and Melas in Bceotia. Columella teacheth us to dd this thing on this manner. There is, faith he, a kind of engraffin whereby fuch kind of grapes are produced, as have (tones of divers kinds, and fun- dry colours; which is to be done by this mean*. Take four or five, or more (if you will} Vine-branches of divers kinds, and mingle them together by equal pro- portion, and fo binde them up. Afterward put them into an earthen pipe cr a horn faft together; butfo, that there may be fome parts of them feen ftanding out at both ends ; and thofe parts fo ftanding forth , muft be diflolved or bruifed: and when you have fo done, put them into a trench in the ground, covering them with mud?, ;and watering them.till they begin to bud. And when the buds are grown Salt together, after two or three years, when they are all knit aod clofed into one,
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then break the pipe, and necr about the middle of the ftalk beneath the fprouts, there where they feem to have moft grown together, cut off the Viue, and heal that part where it is fo cut, and then lay it under the ground again about three fin- gers deep: and when that lialkfhsll (hoot up into fprigf, take two of the beft of them, and cherifh them^nd plant them in the ground, catting away all the other branches ; and by this means you (ball have fuch kinds of grapes as you defire. This very lame experiment doth Tlmy fet down, borrowing it of Columella. But Vidy~ mm prescribes it on this manner. Take two Vine-branches of divers kinds, and cleave them in the middle • but with Inch heedful regard, that the cleft go as far as the bud is, and none of the pith or juice be loft ; then put them each to other,and clofe them together, fo that the bud of either of them meet right one with the other : and as much as pcflibly may be,let them touch together,w hereby both thofe buds may become as one:thcn binde up the branches with paper as hard together as you can,and cover them over with the Sea-onion,or elfe with fome very ftiff clarri- my earth; and fo plant them, and water them after four or five daies, fo long till they (hoot forth into a perfect bud. If you would produce
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Alig^that is half white, and half red; /
Leontintu teacheth you to do it after this manner. Take two fhoots of divers kinds of Fig-trees; but you mult fee that both the fhoots be of the fame age, and the fame growth as neer as you can : then lay them in a trench, and dung them, and wa- ter them. And ifter they begin to bud, you muft take the buds of each, and binde them up together, fo that they may grow up into one fialk : and about two years after, take them up, and plant them into another flock, and thereby you fhall have Figs of two colours. So then by this means
tAttfrnks may be made to be party-coloured ; and that not onely of two, but of many colours , accordingly as inany kinds of fruits may be compounded together. Andfurely thefe experiments are very true3 though they be fomewhat hard to be done, and require along times pra&ice, as I my felf have had experience. The like experiment to thele is recorded by Vatia* dim, and by other Greek Writers, who fhew the way
How a Vine may bring jmh cl/ffters of grapes that are white, but the fiones of the grapes black.
If white and black Vines grow neer together, you muft fhred the branches of eacb£ and prefently clap them together fo,that the bud of either may meet right togi ther, and fo become one: then binde them up hard in paper, and cover them witl foft and moift earth ; and fo let them lie three dayes or thereabouts : after that, fee that they be well and fitly matcht together, and then let them lie till anew bud come forth of a frefh head : and by this means you fhall procure in time , dive ! kinds of grapes , according to the divers branches you put together. I my lelf have made choice of two fhoots of two divers Vines growing one by another; I have cleft or cut them off in that place where the buds were fhooting forth, leaving the third part of the bud upon the branch ; I fattened them together, and bound rbem up into one very faft, left when the buds fhould wax greater, one ofthemmisht flic off from the other : I fitted them fo well, branch with branch,and bud with bud,th^ they made but one ftalk ; and the very fame year they brought forth grapes that had cloven kernels or ftones. This fhootfo fpringingup, I put to another ; and when that was fo fprung up, I put that alio to another ; and by this continual fitting of divers fprigs one to another, I produced clutters of divers-coloured and diver?-na- tured grapes : for one and the fame grape was fweet and unfavoury ; and the P. cues were fome long, fome round, fome crooked; but all of them were of divers co- lours. Pontannt hath elegantly fhewed
How Citron-trees may bear divers kinds ; namely, by joiniag two fuidry boughs together, after the bark hath been pare^ a-
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away, and fafining each to other with a kind of glue, that they may grow up one as fait as the other ; and when they arc engr.ff; d into one flock, they mutt be very carefully covered and looked unio, and fo one and the Lme branch will bring form fruit of clivers kinds. So you may procure
An Orenge-tree to bring forth an Apple half fweet and half fowre. And this kind of comcnixtion was invented by chance ; for there were gr.ff.d two boughs of Orenge-trees, one brought forth afwect, and the other a fhirp fruit. When occalion ferved to tranfplant and remove the Tree, it was cut cfF in the middle, according as Husband-men are wont to do when they plant fuch Trees af- ter they are grown old; and by great chance, it was cuteff there where the two boughs had been before engrafted: and fo when the Hock budded afrefh, there) arofeonebud out of the (harp and fweet branches both together as they were lete in the Bock; and this one bud brought forth Apples or fruit of bbth relifhes. Wherefore no queliion but fuch a thing may be effected by art, as well as it was by chance, if any man have a minde to produce fuch kind of fruits.