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natural moisture, as long and as much until the kernel of the apple attains roots, continues to grow, can grow into young apple saplings, and become large. These are then trimmed by the gardener and set and planted on in other places. When they then succeed, and do not spoil in the transplanting, the gardener then grafts or inoculates according to his will, what kind of good fruits he wants, onto the wild trunk grown from the kernel. And thus a diligent gardener can produce countless many large trees from one tree's fruits, and furthermore of such a kind as please him, in which he has good taste.

Just so does a good Chymicus alchemist too, who plants or grafts fruitful little branches for himself onto wild trunks, so that he never lacks good fruits.

Whoever cannot learn anything from this, he cannot be helped either, for it could not be given more clearly.

But such work requires a diligent and thoughtful Artist practitioner/adept. For the better the manure or dung is that is put to the root of the tree, and the sharper the knife with which the wild branches are cut from the tree, so that the green shells or bark of the tree are not injured and the growing sap runs out, the better it is. It is good to preach to a learned man; to an ignorant one, it helps nothing.