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PLANTS IN SCRIPTURE 135
melior est similium in similibus : for the nearer con-
sanguinity there is between the scions and the stock,
the readier comprehension is made and the nobler
fructification. According also unto the later caution
of Laurenbergius ; 1 arbores domes tic a. insitioni destinatce,
semper anteponenda sybuestribus. And though the suc-
cess be good, and may suffice upon stocks of the same
denomination; yet, to be grafted upon their own and
mother stock, is the nearest insition : which way,
though less practised of old, is now much embraced,
and found a notable way for melioration of the fruit,
and much the rather, if the tree to be grafted on be a
good and generous plant, a good and fair olive, as the
apostle seems to imply by a peculiar word, scarce to be
found elsewhere.2
It must be also considered, that the oleaster, or wild
olive, by cutting, transplanting, and the best managery
of art, can be made but to produce such olives as
Theophrastus saith were particularly named phaulia,
that is, but bad olives ; and that it was among prodigies
for the oleaster to become an olive tree.
And when insition and grafting, in the text, is applied
unto the olive tree, it hath an emphatical sense, very
1 De Horticultura.
2 Ko.WieKaiov.—Rom. xi. 24.
melior est similium in similibus : for the nearer con-
sanguinity there is between the scions and the stock,
the readier comprehension is made and the nobler
fructification. According also unto the later caution
of Laurenbergius ; 1 arbores domes tic a. insitioni destinatce,
semper anteponenda sybuestribus. And though the suc-
cess be good, and may suffice upon stocks of the same
denomination; yet, to be grafted upon their own and
mother stock, is the nearest insition : which way,
though less practised of old, is now much embraced,
and found a notable way for melioration of the fruit,
and much the rather, if the tree to be grafted on be a
good and generous plant, a good and fair olive, as the
apostle seems to imply by a peculiar word, scarce to be
found elsewhere.2
It must be also considered, that the oleaster, or wild
olive, by cutting, transplanting, and the best managery
of art, can be made but to produce such olives as
Theophrastus saith were particularly named phaulia,
that is, but bad olives ; and that it was among prodigies
for the oleaster to become an olive tree.
And when insition and grafting, in the text, is applied
unto the olive tree, it hath an emphatical sense, very
1 De Horticultura.
2 Ko.WieKaiov.—Rom. xi. 24.