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intend the exaltation or variety of their fruit and
flowers, but in all sorts of shrubs and trees applicable
unto physic or mechanical uses, whereby we might
alter their tempers, moderate or promote their virtues,
exchange their softness, hardness, and colour, and so
render them considerable beyond their known and trite
employments.
To which intent curiosity may take some rule or
hint from these or the like following, according to the
various ways of propagation :—
Colutea upon anagris—arbor judae upon anagris—
cassia poetica upon cytisus—cytisus upon periclymenum
rectum—woodbine upon jasmine—cystus upon rosemary
—rosemary upon ivy—sage or rosemary upon cystus—
myrtle upon gall or rhus myrtifolia—whortle-berry
upon gall, heath, or myrtle—coccygeia upon alaternus
—mezereon upon an almond—gooseberry and currants
upon mezereon, barberry, or blackthorn—barberry upon
a currant tree—bramble upon gooseberry or raspberry—
yellow rose upon sweetbrier—phyllerea upon broom—-
broom upon furze—anonis lutea upon furze—holly upon
box—bay upon holly—holly upon pyracantha—a fig
upon chesnut — a fig upon mulberry — peach upon
mulberry — mulberry upon buckthorn — walnut upon
chesnut—savin upon juniper—vine upon oleaster, rose-
intend the exaltation or variety of their fruit and
flowers, but in all sorts of shrubs and trees applicable
unto physic or mechanical uses, whereby we might
alter their tempers, moderate or promote their virtues,
exchange their softness, hardness, and colour, and so
render them considerable beyond their known and trite
employments.
To which intent curiosity may take some rule or
hint from these or the like following, according to the
various ways of propagation :—
Colutea upon anagris—arbor judae upon anagris—
cassia poetica upon cytisus—cytisus upon periclymenum
rectum—woodbine upon jasmine—cystus upon rosemary
—rosemary upon ivy—sage or rosemary upon cystus—
myrtle upon gall or rhus myrtifolia—whortle-berry
upon gall, heath, or myrtle—coccygeia upon alaternus
—mezereon upon an almond—gooseberry and currants
upon mezereon, barberry, or blackthorn—barberry upon
a currant tree—bramble upon gooseberry or raspberry—
yellow rose upon sweetbrier—phyllerea upon broom—-
broom upon furze—anonis lutea upon furze—holly upon
box—bay upon holly—holly upon pyracantha—a fig
upon chesnut — a fig upon mulberry — peach upon
mulberry — mulberry upon buckthorn — walnut upon
chesnut—savin upon juniper—vine upon oleaster, rose-