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140. Stone fruits and nuts. 



Use a punch 

 of hard 

 wood. 



The graft 

 requires 

 protection 

 from the 

 wind. 



[F0I.57.] 



halfe an inche longe or a lyttell more, all on the one syde, 

 8 and pare the barke awaye a lyttel at the poynt on the 

 other syde : than thou muste haue made redy a ponch of 

 harde wood, with a stop and a tenaunte on the one syde, 

 lyke to the tenaunte of the graffe. Than put the tenaunt 



12 of the ponche betwen the barke and the woode of the 

 stocke, and pull it out agayne, and put in the graffe, 

 and se that it ioyne close, or els mende it. And this 

 can-not fayle, for now the sappe cometh on euery syde, 



16 but it wyl spring soo faste, that if it stande on playne 

 grounde, the wynde is lykelye to blowe it besyde the 

 heed, for it hath no fastnes in the wodde. And this is 

 beste remedy for blowynge of, to cutte or clyppe awaye 



20 somme of the nethermooste leaues as they growe. And 

 this is the beste waye to graffe, and specyally a greats 

 tree : than claye it, and bynde it as dyddest the other, &c. 



Stone-fruits. 



Filberts and 

 walnuts. 



140. \ To nourishe all maner of stone fniite, and nuttes. 



As for cheryes, dampsons, bulleys, plummes, and suche 

 other, maye be sette of stones, and also of the scyences, 

 growynge aboute the tree, of the same, for they wyll 



4 sooneste beare. Fylberdes and walnuttes maye be set of 

 the nuttes in a gardeyne, and after remoued and sette 

 where he wyll. But whan they be remoued, they wolde 

 be set vpon as good a grounde, or a better, or els they 



8 wyll not lyke. 



Get a copy 

 of this book, 

 and read it 

 from 

 beginning to 



141. \ A shorte information for a yonge gentyl-man, that 

 entendeth to thryue. 



I auyse hym to gette a copy of this presente boke, 



and to rede it frome the begynnynge to the endynge, 



wherby he maye perceyue the chapyters and contentes 



4 of the same, and by reason of ofte redyng, he maye 



waxe perfyte, what shulde be doone at all seasons. For 



