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137. What fruit to graft first. 



sharp small 1 6 tree : and a sharpe knife, to pare the stockes heed, and 



knives. 



an other sharpe knyfe, to cutte the graffe cleane. And 

 also thou muste haue two wedges of harde wood, or elles 

 of yren, a longe small one for a small stocke, and broder 

 2o for a bygger stocke, to open the stocke, whan it is clouen 

 and pared : and also good tough claye and mosse, and 

 also bastes or pyllynge of wethy or elme, to bynde them 

 with, &c. 



Two 



wedges. 



Clay, moss, 

 and bast. 



Graft pears 



before 



apples. 



Graft from 

 Feb. 14 to 

 March 25. 



[Fol.ss*^.] 



A crab- 

 stock is best 

 for apples. 



137. \ What fruite shuld be fyrste graffed. 



Peares and wardens wolde be graffed before any maner 

 of apples, bycause the sappe commeth sooner and rather 

 in-to the peare-tree and warden-tree, thanne in-to the 



4 apple-tree. And after saynt Valentynes daye, it is tyme 

 to graffe both peares and wardens, tyll Marche be comen, 

 and thanne to graffe appels to our lady daye. And than 

 graffe that that is gette of an olde apple-tree fyrste, for 



8 that wyll budde before the graffe get of a yonge apple- 

 tree late graffed. And a peare or a warden wolde be 

 graffed in a pyrre-stocke ; and if thou canst get none, 

 than graffe it in a crabbe-tree stocke, and it wyll do well : 

 1 2 and some men graffe theym in a whyte-thorne, and than 

 it wyll be the more harder and stonye. And for all 

 maner of appels, the crabtree stocke is beste. 



Select the 

 graft. 



Saw the 

 crab -tree, 



cleave and 

 open the 

 stock : 



138. \ Howe to graffe. 



Thou muste get thy graffes of the fayrest lanses, that 

 thou canste fynde on the tree, and see that it haue a good 

 knotte or ioynte, and an euen. Than take thy sawe, and 



4 sawe in-to thy c[r]abbetree, in a fayre playne place, pare it 

 euen with thy knyfe, and thanne cleaue the stocke with 

 thy greatte knyfe and thy mallet, and set in a wedge, and 

 open the stocke, accordynge to the thyckenesse of thy 



8 graffe ; thanne take thy smalle sharpe knyfe, and cutte 

 the graffe on bothe sydes in the ioynte, but passe not the 



