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27. The several wages of grafting and inoculating?

28. How to alter the shape, smell, colour and taste of Vegetables by joyning different Roots together?

29. How and what may be chang'd by grafting, joyning or inoculating shoots or Buds on different Stocks or Cyons?

30. How to compound several Liquors to water and feed Vegetables, whereby they may be much alter'd?

31. Of what Roots, Stalks, Barks, Leaves, Flowers, Fruits, seeds, Downs, may be made either Cups, Boxes, Baskets, Matts, Calicoes, Cloaths (as Netie-cloath) and the like? All which will be most useful for the life of Man from the Garden.

32. How to prune Vines? How many Joynts to leave? And of what age the Vine must be, that is cut away?

33. How to prune Standard-trees?

34. How to prune Wall-Trees, and with what to be best fastned?

35. The Places, from whence the best of the Vegetables, that are either Winter-greens, or fit for the Kitchin-garden, may be had; and the marks of their goodness?

36. How to discerne good Seeds from bad?

37. The times of gathering, and, the wayes of preserving them, &c.

'Tis supposed, that the Names of the Vegetables, which make up the Kitchin-garden, and the Winter-greens; are sufficiently known: yet if there be any, that desire to have a good List of both sorts publisht, they may be gratify'd therein; upon intimation given to the Publisher, who hath by him such as List, collected by the same Noble Person, who now proposeth the Queries for fuller information, than hath been given hitherto.

A Suggestion
For taking more notice, than hath been done formerly, of the Juyces of Trees, by tapping them.

ALthough some have been Curious in taking notice and making use of the Liquors of some Trees by tapping them; yet is there much wanting in. this kind of Observations and Try-

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