Middletown transcript., 1869-10-09
ANCIENT LORE.

'sSome do ordinarily plant stocks of the
Garden Ounce Tree, and graft Pear Trees
thereon; as also Apple Trees and great
Peaches. The fruit whereof, taste as if
they were Peach Plums, but they must be
grated one-half foot within the ground,
because they never have any faire trunke,
and being grated thus low, the graft will |
put forth roots of itsclfs, which will make
it endure and continue the longer time"
Here is something caluable and will not
be doubted; we quote verbatim
"To cause fruit to grow, that shall be
halle peach and halle nut, take an eyelet
of the one and the other, and cut them as
neere the eyeltt as you can, both the one
and the other, and scrape their bottoms
little; then joyning them, bind them verie
well together, and after cut away their
toppes; the fruit growing from these will
be halle peaches and halle nuts"
"Write what you will in the eyelet of
fgge tree, which you meane to graft, and
the fgge growing thereof, will contain the
said writing"
Here is reference made to the curculio
However, the little pests do not appear
to have yet learned to injure the plum
He has progressed during the century past
"There breed in trees, certain small
beasts, almost like to weevils, and they
are somewhat blewish blacke, and certain
of them have long and sharpe pointed
peakes or bills, these do great harme to
gratis and other young trees, for they cut
off young scions, which are yet but tender,
put forth not past the length of finger.
You must at the height of the day, when
you shall see them there, lay your hand
upon them softly, without stirring the tree;
for they let themselves fall downe, when
one goeth about to take them, because
they cannot quickly betake themselves to
flight, and if they let not themselves fall
into your hand, then reach up and take
them upon the scions with your other
hand"
| Grating was a remarkable art in An
cient times. Many of the apparent at
tachments of gratis to stocks of incompati-
BILE nature, were frauds upon the simplici-
ty of the ignorant. But there seems to
be no room for deception in the following,
which appear to have been genuine gratis.
"Graft Plum tree graft, or any other
fruit tree graft, upon the fgge tree, and
you shall have your fruit without blossom
ing"
How to produce evergreen oaks-''To
cause an oak or other tree to continue
greene as well in winter as in summer :;
graft it upon Colewort Stocke."
Graft Chestnut and Caliot Peare trees
upon Gooseberie bush, if you would have
them to beare their fruit early"
Graft the Peach tree upon the Ounce
tree, you shall have peaches and ounces
together"
"You shall have cherries on many trees,
which will be good to eat unto November,
if you graft the Cherry tree upon re-
claginer Mulberrie tree, and upon wild
one."
ITO have an early cherrie graft the
May Heart on the stalk of the seryise-tree,
and you will have very Garlic cherries"
} The writer of the above, and fifty more
as valuable receipts for grating and chan
: ging the quality of the fruit, to be green
, from the graft, has this one sensible para
e graph.
"The grating which is performed to 9
graft upon tree, correspondent and an.
) swerable to the nature of the graft, PROV
: eth of most beautiful growth and most fruit
I full and his fruit most durable; which fal.
a leth not out when this correspondence
sympathie, and fellowship is wanting: and
this is the cause why the Peach tree thriv.
eth BETTER being grated in the Plum tree
}, than elsewhere, and the Peare Plum tree
in the Almond tree, and there continue {
e long time"
: This folio of about 740 pages, no doubt
;. was considered full treatise on Agricul
d ture, Horticulture, Domestic Preparation
% Distillation, Preserving Fish in ponds, Sur
d veying, Vine Growing, Care of Game, o
's Woods, Dogs, Deer, Rabbits and Birds
Al for the time it was written. 1t doubles
cost the venerable Surhet lifetime of re
l. search, and brought him fame in his day
r which has not, however, proved enduring
70 for cannot find him named in any bio
l. graphical or photographed work to whicl
Is l have access.
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OF scanned by the ruthless hand of time, hoy
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y wisdom they deemed thy pages held. No,
IL torn and leatherless, Drowned and dog
l. cared thou art thrown aside subject for rid
l. icule, monument of the folly and ignor
ne ance of the age that produced thee. No
le without merit art thou, nevertheless, fo
l. much that we deem recent fnds recor
!, "a in thy time-honored pages. We will trea
d sure thee for these, and bless thee for til
ae good thou hast done to our fathers, bu
" while we do SO, thank our stars we liy
ca three centuries further down the course G
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