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 and Sentiments. 303 after a year corriplete thou mayft tranfplant them 3 and if thou wilt have timely (early) rofes, delve about the roots one or two handbreadths, and water their fcions with warm water; and for to keep them long, put them in honeycombs." According to the receipts edited by Mr. Halli- well, "■ If thou wilt that in the il;one of a peach-apple (this was the ordinary name for a peach) be found a nut-kernel, graft a fpring (fprout) of a peach-tree on the ftock of a nut-tree. Alfo a peach-tree fhall bring forth pomegranates, if it be fprong (fprinkled) oft times with goat's milk three days when it beginneth to flower. Alfo the apples of a peach-tree fhall wax red, if its fcion be grafted on a playne tree." Such were the intellecSlual vagaries of " fuperfl:itious eld." Peaches are frequently mentioned among the fruit of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries ; but nectarines or apricots are not met with before the flfteenth century. The latter were called in old Englilli by their French name of airicots, and fubfequently, and ilill more frequently, apricocks.