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A out of a fodaln ] Unlcfle it be the Olive^ the oilets or eyes whereof be longefi while in commin g 

 forihjas having Icaft fap of all other, running under the barke 5 the which if it were overrouchi 

 would ftifle and choke the grafts. Asfor the Pomegranat and Fig tree, howfoever otherwife they 

 feemetobedriejyetgood icisnotto deferre andput off the grafting of them .ThePeare-tree 

 may well enough be graffed with the blolTomc on the head, and it makes no matter if a man doe 

 ftay, and graffe it within the moneth of May. To be fhort, if a man bee conftiained to fetch his 

 (ions or imps of Apple trees and fuch like, farre off, it is thought that they will kccpe their fap 

 beftjifthey bcftuckcorfet faftinaRaperoot. Alfoifonewouldpreicrvethemacertaine time 

 before they (hould be occupied, it is paffmg good to lay them clofe between two creft riles^well 

 flopped oQevcry fide with earth, and that neare to fome rivers or fithrponds; 



^ Chap. XV. ThemAnnir horv to grajft d Vtf^e iree^ . . , . ., ^ 



AS forthecuttingsotietsef Vines, they may bee kept wella longtime, covered all over 

 with ftrawor litter in drie ditches -and afterwards they are to belaid within the earth, all 

 hilled or covered, lave only that their heads be feene above ground . Cato graffeth a vine 

 ftocke three manner of waies : Firftjhe willcch that the mother ftacke thould be cut overthwait, 

 andthen cloven through the very pith or heart in the raids, wherein hee would have they ounsg 

 imps (thwitted and fharpned as is beforefaid) to be fct and engraffed fo,as the marow of the one 

 and the other may joyne and meet juft togithcr. The fecbnd manner is, when two Vine ftocks do 

 reach one to the other, for to cut byas or aflaunt (after the manner of a Goats foot)two twigs oc 

 Q braunchesjof either one, with this regard, that ihefecutsbeof acontraricfidetheonc unto the 

 other, and withallfo deepjas that they come unto the pith or heart 5 then to fit one to theoihcr^ 

 joyning pith to pith, and then binding them faft togither fo clofe, that no aire. may enter be-? 

 tween,untill fuch time as the one hath adopted the other.The third devife is,to bore holes in an 

 old vine,not directly but aflope, as far as to the pith 5 and then to put into them young imps mo 

 foot long , and to bind them rail : whichdone, to make a certaine batter or morter [with clay 5^ 

 beaft dung, and fand cogither] and therewith to dawbe the place 5 but with this regard, diat the 

 graft ftand halfe upright or fonicwhat leaning. This manner of grafting hath been checked and 

 corrected of late daics by our countrymenjwho Icavingthe hand-piercer have taken the French 

 vibrequin or breaft-wimblejwhich gently and quickly boreth a hole, andhurteth not the wood: 

 ^ for allchafing heat caufed by the laid piercer, dullcth the vigor both of ftocke aiidimpc. Alfo 

 they have devifed, that the faidimpe to be engraffed, be gathered fromthetr^ when it begin- 

 nethtobudorburgenj&when it is fet into the ftocke,that itbeleftftandingdutwithnomore 

 than two eyes or buds out of th e grafting place ; that it be well bound alfo wi th the winding rods 

 of an Elme: moreover, that on either fide of itjthe mother-ftocke be flit or cue in two places on 

 both fides, to the end that from thence rather than othet wife, the watexifh humour may diftill 

 and drop forthj which of all things hurteth vines moft. After all this, they would have thefaid 

 graffe remaine bound, untillfuch time as it have puc foorth fhoots two foot long ; and then the 

 iorefaidbandstobe cutinfunder, that they may burnitliin thicknefle and ateafe accordingly. 

 The feafon which they have allowed for to graft vines, is from the iEqumocliallin Autumne 

 E unto the time that they begin to bud foorth . Generally all trees that are tame and gentle, may 

 well be gratfed into ftockes and roots of the wild, which by nature are more drie : contrariwife, 

 graffe the wild and favage kind upon the other^ you fhall have all dcger|erate,and become wild^ 

 Touching other points belonging to the feat of grafting, all dependcth upon the goodnefle or 

 malignitieof the skie and weather. In fumme, a drie feafon is good for all trees graftcdin this 

 manner : and fay that the drought were excefTive, there is a good rcmedie for it, namely, to take 

 certaine earthen pots ofaflies, and to let water diflill through them foftly, by little and little to 

 the root of the flock. As for inoculation,itioveth fmail dewes otherwhiles,to refrefh both ftockT 

 fcutcheonjand oijet. 



Chap. XYI. 



V }^ of EmplafiratiotJ orgrafjing rvith the Scutcheon^ 



THe manner of graffingby way of emplaflre or fcutcheon, may feemc alfo to have come 

 fironi inoculation: and this devife agreeih befl with thofe trees that have thicke barkes , as 

 namely Fig trees. To goc therefore artificially to workc, the motheEfloekc or tree to bee 



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