The le venteeiith Booke of 



by good husbandric. The confideration whereof maketh mce to cntef into this conceitjThat Q 

 men were madeby Nature for no other end but to tend and looke unto the eartbSee yet what a 

 commodious device wee have learned by fo wicked and dercftabka thing as this bramble is^ 

 namely, to lay flips in the ground, and quick-fets with the root. Of the fame nature is the Yvic 

 alfojeven togrow andgetncwroot asitcrcepethandclimbeth. And by C^/i?£^^faying,not onely 

 the Vinejbut Fig-trees and Olives alfojwill grow & encreafe ofcuttings couched in the ground; 

 likewife Pomgranate trees, all kinds of Applc-trecSjBaiesjPlum-trecs, Myrdes, Filberds'^Hazels 

 of Prsneftc^yeajand Plane-trces.Now be there two waies to encreafe trees by way of propagati- 

 on or cntcrring their twigs. Thefirftis3toforceabraiinchofaireeasitgroweth,downe to the 

 ground,and fo to couch it within a trench foure foot fquarc every way 5 and after two years to cut 

 it atwOjwhere it bent from the tree j and after three yeares end to tranlplant it. But If a man lift H 

 to have fuch plants or young trees to bearelonger^thc bcit way were to burie the faid braunchcs 

 at the fir ft within mould,either in paniers or earthen veflels^that when they are once rooted, they 

 might be removed all whole and entire in them, and fo replanted. The (econdjis a more curious 

 and wanton devife than this, namely ,to procure roots to grow upon the very trecjby carying & 

 conveighing braunches^either through earthen pots or oificr baskets, full of earth jthruh dole 

 unto the faid braunchcs : and by this meanes^the branches feeling comfort of the warme eattls 

 cnclofingihem on every fidejareeaiilyintreatcd to takerootjCven among Apples & other fruits^ 

 in the head of the tree, (for furely by this meanes we dclire to have roots to chufe,growing upon 

 the very top.) So audacious are men and of fuch monff rous fpirits, to make one tree grow upon 

 anothei/ar from the ground beneath. Thus in like manner asbeforCjat two yeares end, the faid I 

 impes or branches that have taken root,be cut off and caried away in the forefaid pots or paniers, 

 thither where they lliall grow. As for the Sa vine^an hearbe or pla nt it is that wil 1 take if it bee in 

 this fort couched in the ground ; alfoja Iprig it it be flipped off clean from the flocke, will come 

 againc and root . Folke fay, that it a man take wine lees, or an old bricke out of the wall bro- 

 ken f mall,and cither poure the onCjOr lay the other about the root^ it will profper and come for- 

 ward wonderfully. In like manner may Rofemarie be fet astheSavine,eitherbyjcouching it, oc 

 flipping off a branch from it^for neither of them both hath any feed.To concIude,the hearbe oe 

 llirubOkanderjmaybefetofanimpejandfogrow^orelseomeof feed* 



Chap, xiiii. K 



^ of emreafwg trees by feed : the munmr of grafjlng ont in another : horv the fnede- 

 vijeof inocuLtion bjwiijof fcutcheon and empUtfler was dcviftd^ 



NAturc not willing to conceale any thing from man,hath alfo taught him to engraffe trees 

 with their feed and graine. For oftentimes ithappeneth, that birds being hungrie^ have 

 greedily gobbled up feed and fruit whole and found, which after they have moiflened in 

 their gorge,and tempered it alio with the warmth and naturail heat of their flomacke,they fend 

 forth andlquirt out againcwhen they meutCjtogether with their dung., that givethuntoitaver- 

 tue of fecunditie, and fo lay it upon the foft beds of tree leaves, which many a time the winds 

 catch and driveintofomeclifts and cranies of the barke: by meanes whereof, weehave feene a L 

 Cheric tree upon a Willow, a Plane tree upon a Lawrell, aLawrell uponaChcrietree.-and at 

 one time Berries and fruits of di verfe forts and fundric colours hanging at one and the fame tree. 

 It is (aid moreover,that the Chough or Daw hath given occafion hereol, by laying up for florc^ 

 feeds and other fruits in crevifcs and holes of trees, which afterwards fp routed and grew. From 

 hcncecame the manner of inoculation or ^raffing in the fcutcheon,namely,to cut out a parcell 

 ot the barke ofthat tree which isto be graffed,with a fliarpe knife made in mannerof a fhoma-' 

 kers n all-blade 5 & then to enclofe withm thefaid concavitie,the eic or feed taken out of another 

 tree with the faid inflrument. And in old time verily this was theonely manner of inoculation 

 ufedin Fig-trees and Apple-trees. /'/V^/Zteacheth us loopenaconcavitieinthcknotor joint 

 of a bud tliat driveih out the baike,and within it to enclofe the gem or bud taken out of another M 

 tree. And thus much for the graffmg that Nature hath Ihewed. 



But there is another way of graffing,which cafualtieand chauncc hath taught. And to fay a 

 truth, this Maifler hathiliewed well neare more experiments, now daily pra(5i(ed, than Nature 

 her feif cNow the manner of it came by this occafion : A certain diligent and painefuli husband- 



