54 ° The or der 'tngoj the Orchard. 
goad purpofe grafted vpon no other Plum ftocke, to rife to beeworth the labour and 
painc. All forts of Plums may be grafted in the ftocke, and fo may they alfo in the bud- 
for I know none of them that will refufc to be grafted in the bud, if a cunning hand 
performe it well ; that is, to take offyour bud cleanely and well, when von haue made 
Choice of a fit cy on : for, as I fhal flic w you anon, it is no fmall peece of cunning to chufe 
your cyon that it may y eeld fit buds to graft withall,for eucry plum is not of a like apr- 
nes to yeeld them: But Apricocks cannot be grafted in the ftofck for any thing that cuer 
I could heare or lcarnc, but only in the bud, and therefore let your Plum ftocke bee of 
a reafonable fize for Apricockes efpecially, and not too fmall, that the graft ouer- 
grow not the ftocke, and that the ftocke bee large enough to nourifh the grafr 
As your Plum ftockes feme to graft both Apricockes and Plummcs, fo doe they feme 
alfo very well to graft Peaches of all forts • and although Peach ftockes will ferue to 
be grafted with Peaches againe, yet the Peach ftocke (as I faid before) will not endure 
fo long as the Plumme ftocke, and therefore ferueth but for neceffity if Plum ftocks be 
not ready.or at hand, or for the prefent time, or that they afterwards may graft thac 
fortof Peach on a Plumme ftocke : for many might lofe a good fruit, if when they 
meetc with it, and haue not Plumme ftocke9 ready ro graft it on, they could not be af. 
fured that it would take vpon another Peach ftocke or branch, or on the branch of 
an Apricocke eyther. Plumme ftockes will ferue like wife very well for fome forts 
of Netftorins ; I fay, for fome forts, and not for all : the gteene and the yellow NcCto- 
rin will beft thriue to be grafted immediately on a Plumme ftocke j but the other two 
forts of red N ceftorins muft not be immediately grafted on the Plumme ftocke, but vp- 
on a branch of an Apricocke thac hath beene formerly grafted on a Plumme 5 ftocke 
the nature ofthefc Nedtorins being found by experience to be fo contrary to the Plum 
ftocke, that it will fterue it, and both dye within a ycare,two or three at the moil : Di- 
uers hauetryed to graft thefe red Nedtorins vpon Peach ftockes, and they haue endu- 
red well a while; but feeing the Peach ftocke will not laftlong it felfe, being ouer- 
weake, how can it hold fo ftrong a nature as thefe red Nedtorins, which will (as I faid 
before) fterue a Plum ftocke that is fufficient durable for any other Plumme t 
Apricocke ftockes from the ftones are hardly nurfed vp, and worfe to be remoued, 
and if a red Nedtorin flrould begrafted on an Apricock rayfed from the ftone,and not 
remoued,I doubt it might happen with it as it doth with many other trees raifed from 
ftones or kernels, and not remoued, that they would hardly bcare fruit : for the nature 
of raoft trees raifed from ftones or kernels, and not remoued, is to fend great downc- 
right rootes,and not to fpread many forwards ; fo that if they be nor cut away that o- 
thers may ipreade abroad, I haue feldomc feene or known any of them to beare in any 
(reafonable time ; and therefore in remouing, thefe great downe-right rootes areal- 
vWayes (hred away, and thereby made fitto flioote others forwards. Hereby you may 
pe.rceiue, that thefe red N edtorins will not abide to bee grafted vpon any other ftocke 
well; then vpon an Apricocke branch, although the green and thcyellovv(as I faid be- 
fore) will well endure and thriue vpon Plums. The fuckers or (liootes both of Plums 
and Cherries that rife from their rootes, eyther neare their ftockes, or farther off, fo 
that they bee taken with fome fmall rootes to them, will ferue to bee ftockes, and will 
come forward quickly - but if the fuckers haue no fmall roots whereby they may com- 
prehend in the ground, it is almoft irapolftble it Ihould hold or abidc.There is another 
way to ray fc vp eyther ftockes to grafr on, or trees withoutgrafting, which is, by cir- 
cumcifing a faire and fit branch in this manner : About Midfomer, when the fappe is 
thoroughly rifen (or before ifthe yeare be forward) they vfe to binde a good quantity 
of clay round about a faire and ftraight branch, ofareafonable'good fizeorbigneffe 
with fomeconuenient bands, whether it be ropes of hey, or of any other thing,about 
an handfull aboue the ioynt, where the branch fpreadeth from the tree, and cutting the 
barke thereof round about vnder the place where the clay is bound, the fap is hereby 
hindered from riling, ordefeending further then that place focircumcifed, whereby it 
will flioote out fmall knubs and rootes into the clay, which they fuffer fo to abide vn- 
till the beginning of winter, whenas with a fine Sawe they cut off that branch where 
ic was circumcifed.and afrerwardes place it in the ground where they would haue it to 
grow, and flake it, and binde it faft, which will flioote forth rootes, and will become 
eyther a faire tree to beare fruite without grafting, or elfe a fir ftocke ro grafe on accor - 
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