The vineyard: being a treatise shewing I. The nature and method of planting, manuring, cultivating, and dressing of vines in foreign parts. II. Proper directions for drawing, pressing, making ... wine. III. An easy and familiar method of planting and raising vines in England ... IV. New experiments in grafting, budding, or inoculating ... V. The best manner of raising several sorts of compound fruit ... / Being the observations made by a gentleman in his travels.
- Date:
- 1727
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The vineyard: being a treatise shewing I. The nature and method of planting, manuring, cultivating, and dressing of vines in foreign parts. II. Proper directions for drawing, pressing, making ... wine. III. An easy and familiar method of planting and raising vines in England ... IV. New experiments in grafting, budding, or inoculating ... V. The best manner of raising several sorts of compound fruit ... / Being the observations made by a gentleman in his travels. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![E94] FOHANNES Baptifia Porta affxmsto have - raisd a compound Fruit of the Damfin and O- range, or Lemon, which has participated of both Kinds, which was rais’d in the foregoing Many Nevis) ai Alfo he affirms to have rais’d Damfins com= pounded of two Sorts, by choofing two young Trees of different Kinds, which growing clofe to- gether, he pared off the Barks to the undermoft Skin, for the Depth of fix or feven Inches, near the Heads; then twifting them round each other fo that they touch’d in the Places where the Bark had been taken off; after which he bound them tight together with the Film or Rine of the Elm-Tree to prevent their parting; after this he removed the Earth from about their Roots, and cover’d them with good Mold and Dung, to ftrengthen and nourifh them the better; often watering them, within the Space of a few Years they were firmly grown together, as if they had naturally fo done; then he cut off the Tops, in the Place where they feem’d to be moft firmly united; after which there fhot out from the Head many young Shoot; of which, thofe that he perceived to come from both ‘Trees he let ftand, the others he cut off; and by this Means procured Fruit according to his defire. Hap he fuffer’d all the Shoots to grow, the Fruit would have been various, thefe Branches which appear’d to be fhot out from both Stocks, would have partook of the Nature of each; but thofe which had fhot from the Sides, would have participated of the Nature of its original Parent. 10 , oe | We](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30512694_0178.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
