f / he ordering of the Orchard. 
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Chap. VI. 
Certaine rules and oh far ait ions in and after grafting, net 
remembred in the former chapter. 
T He time of fome manners of grafting being not mentioned before , muft here 
be fpokcn of. For the grafting of all forts of trees in the ftocke, the mod vfuall 
timeis fromthemiddleof February vntill the middle of March, as the yeare 
and the countrieis more forward or backward, with vs about London wee neuer pafle 
midde March : but becaufethe May Cherrie is firft ripe, and therefore ofa very for» 
ward nature, it doth require to be grafted fomewhat fooner then others. The time of 
gathering like wife, or cutting your grafts for grafting in the ftocke, is to be obferued, 
that they bee not long gathered before they bee grafted, for feare of being too dry’ 
which I commend, howfoeuer diuers fay, if they be long kept they are not the worfc - 
and therefore if you be forced to haue yourgrafts from farre, or by fome other chance 
to kcepe them long, be carefull to keepe themmoift, by keeping their ends ft.ucke in 
moift clay ; but if neare hand, negled no time I fay after the cutting of them for their 
grafting, but cither the fame, or the next day, or verie fpcedily after, in the meanetime 
being put into the ground to keepethem frefli. Thegraftstakenfromoldtrees, be- 
caufe they are ftronger, and fhootc forth fooner , are to bee fooner grafted then thofe 
that are taken from younger trees: of a good branch may bee made two, andfome- 
times three grafts fufficient for anie reafonable ftocke. For whipping, the time is 
fomewhat later then grafting in the ftocke, becaufeit is performed on younger trees, 
which (as I Laid before) doe not fo early bud or Ihoote forth as the elder. Inarching 
likewife is performed much about the later end of the grafting time in the ftocke ; for 
being both kindes thereof they require the fame time of the yeare. The times of’ the 
other manners of graftings are before exprefled, to bee when they haue (hot forth 
young branches, from whence your buds rnuft be taken ; and therefore need not here 
againe to be repeated. Ifa graft in the ftocke doth happen not to fhoote forth when o- 
thers do(fo as it holdeth green) it may perchance (hoot out a moneth or twoafter,&do 
well, or elfe after Midfummer, when a fecond time of (hooting, or the after Spring ap» 
peareth : but liauc an efpcciall care,that you take not fuch a graft that dial haue nothing 
but buds for flowers vpon it,and not an eye or bud for leaues (which you muft be care^ 
fullcodiftinguifh) for fuch a graft after it hath (hot out the flowers muft of neceflltje 
dye, not hailing wherewith to maintaine it felfe. Alfo if your good graft doe midland 
not take, it doth hazzard your ftocke at the firft time, yet manie ftockes doe recouer to 
be grafted the fccond time ; but twice to fade is deadly , which is not fo in the inocu- 
lating of buds in the greene tree : for if you fade therein three, or three times three, yee 
cuerie wound being (mail , and the tree ftill growing greene , will quickly recouer it, 
and not be afterwards fecn.Some vfe to graft in the ftocke the fame yeare they remoue 
the ftockc,to faue time,& a fecond checke by graftingjbut I likebetter both in grafting 
in the ftocke, and in the bud alfo, that your trees might be planted in the places where 
you would haue them grovve, for a yeare or two at the lead: before you graft them, that 
after grafting there (hould be no remouall, I neede not be tedious , nor yet I hope ve- 
rie follicitous to remember many other triuiall, or at the lead common kno wne things 
in this matter. Firft, for the time to remoue trees, young or old, grafted or vngrafted, 
to be from a fortnight after Michaelmas vntill Candlemas, or if neede be, fomewhat 
after, yet the foonery our remoue is, the better your trees will thriuc . except it be in a 
very moift ground. For the manner or way to fet them : viz. in the high and dry 
grounds fet them deeper, both to haue the more moifture, and to be the better defen- 
ded from windes ; and in the lower and moifter grounds (hallower, and that the earth 
be mellow, well turned vp, and that the finer earth bee put among the fmallrootes, 
wherein they may fpread , and afterwards gently troden downe, that no hollowneftc 
remaine among the rootes: as alfo that after fetting (if the time be not ouermoift) there 
may be fome water powred to the rootes , to moiften and fallen them the better ; and 
in the dry time of Summer, after the fecting, let them not want moifture , if you will 
haue 
