The order ing oj the Orchard. 
fliado w them : Let your Peare trees therefore be placed behindc, or on the one fide of 
your lower trees, that they may be as it were a (helter or defence on the North &Eaft 
fide. Thus may you alio plant Apples among Plums and Cherries, foasyoufuffer 
not onetoouer-groweorouer-toppe another; for by pruning, lopping, andfhred- 
ding tho fe that growc too fad for their fcllowcs, you may ftill keepe your trees in fuch 
a conformity, as may be both mod comely for the fight, and mod profitable for the 
yeclding of greater and better (lore of fruit. Other forts of fruit trees you may mixe 
among thefe, if you pleafe, as Filbcrds , Cornellian Cherries in danderds , and Med- 
lers: but Seruice trees, Bayc trees, and others of that high fort, mud be fet to guard 
the fed. Thus haue I giuen you the faired forme could as yet be deuifed ; and from this 
patterne, if you doe not follow it precifely, yet by it you may proportion your Or- 
chard, be it large or little, be it walled or hedged. 
Chap. III. 
Of AnSurftry fsr'tr ccs, both from' fovring the kernels t and planting 
fit Jl otkes to graft rvpm. 
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f" A I.though I know the greater fort (Imcanethe Nobility and better part of the 
Gentrie of this Land) doe not intend to keepe a Nurfery, to raife vp thofe trees 
Athatthey mcanetopian'ttheirwals or Orchards withall , buttobuythem al- 
ready grafted to their hands.of them that make their lining of it : yet becaufc many 
Gentlemen and pthers arc muclvdelighted to bcdoWe their paines in grafting them- 
felues, and edeeme their owne hibours and handie worke farre aboue other mens : for 
their incouragemarit and fatisfa&ion , I wiki here fet downc fome conuenient directi- 
ons, to enable them to raife an Orchard of all forts offruits quickly, both by (owing 
the kernels or dones oFfruit, an$ by making choife of the bed forts of dockes to graft 
on : Firdthereforetobegitfwith Cherries; Ff you will make a Nurfery , wherein 
you may bee dored wfth plenty of dockes in alittlefpace, take what quantitie you 
thinkegood of ordinarie wilde'blacke 'Cherrie dones, cleanfed from the berries, and 
fowc them, or pricketheminoneby one on a peeceofground well turned vp, and 
large enough for the quantitie of doneayou will bedowe thereon , from the midd of 
Auguft vnto the end of September, which when they are two or three y eares old, ac- 
cording tot heir growth, you may rcmouc them , and fet them anew in fome orderly 
roweSjhauing pruned their tops and thpirrootes, which at the nextyeares growth af- 
ter the hew planting in any go6d ground, or at the fecond, will be of fufficient big- 
neffe to grafr vpon in the bud what forts of Cherries you thinke bed : and it is fitted to 
graft them thtisydung', that pruning yolif dockes to raife thenvhigh, you may graft 
thematfiueorfixfoote high, or higher, or lower, ns you (hallfcegood, and being 
thus grafted in thebud, will both more fpeedily and fafely bring forward your grafts, 
and with lcfTc danger of lofing your dockes , then by grafting them in the docke : for 
if the bud take not by inoculating the firdyeare, yet your tree is not lod, norputin 
anyhazzard of Ioffe ; but may be grafted anew the yearc following, if yon will, in an- 
other place thereof, whereasif you graft in the docke, and it doe not take, it is a great 
chance if the docke dye not wholly, or at lead be not fo weakened both in ftrength and 
height, that It will not bee fit to bee grafted ayeare or two after. In the fame man- 
ner as you doe with the blacke, you may dcale with the ordinary Englifli red Cherrie 
ftoncSjOr kernels, but they arenot foaptto growe fo draight and high, nor in fo fiiort 
atimeas the blacke Chcrrie dones are, and befidcs are (ubicdl in time to bring out fuc- 
kers from the roores;tothehitiderance of the dockes and grafts, or at the lead to the 
deformitie ofyour Orchard, and more trouble to the Gardiner, to pull or digge them 
away. Plumme dones may bee ordered in this manner likewife, buryoumudmake 
choife ofyour Plums ; for although cuery Plumme is not fo fit for this pnrpofe, as the 
whire Peare Piumme,bccaufe itgroweththe goalcft and freed, the bailor being fmoorh 
and apted to be raifed, that they may be grafted vpon ; yet diners other Plummcs may 
betaken, if they be not at hand, or tObc had, as the blacke and red Peare Plumme, ths 
w hitc 
