fianting and Gracing. ^ 3 
tberai andcutofFallthe ruperfluousandill branches thereof. 
How ye, eughi to bind jour graffys threnghout for fear of ^*«“'*‘* 
A Nd when your grafFcsfliall be grownej ye muft bind them, for 
fear of (baking of the wind^ and if the tree be free and good of 
hinifelf, let the Cions grow (1 ill 5 and ye may graffe any part or 
branch ye will in thecleft, or betwixt the barke and the trecy either 
in the SciithioB, if your barke be faire and loofe. 
To fet many grafts in one cleft . 
TXZf^enye will put many graffes in one cleft, fee thatonein- 
Vv ciifon (ofyour gralfe) be.aslarge as the other, not to be 
put into the cleft fo fiightly andrafhly, and that one^de thereot 
be not more open then the other, and that thefc graffes be all ^ 
one length : it (hall luffice alfo, if they have three eyes on each gratte 
without the joy nt thereof. 
Hvrv to faw your jlock^beforeye cleave htm 
I N fa wing your ftocksfee that ye tear not the barke about the head 
thereof, then cleave his head with a long (liarpe knife, or mch 
like, and knock yonr wedge in the midlt thereof, (then pare him 
OH the head round about ) and knock your wedge in fo deep tdl it 
open meet for your graffes, but not fo wide v then holding in one 
hand your gralfe, and in the other hand your flock, fet your gra e 
in clofe, barke to barke, and let your wed gc be great abov e at the 
head, that ye may knock him out faire and eafily againe. 
Jfihefock cleave too muchj or thebarhydo open, - 
I F the ftoek do cleave too much or open the barke with the wood 
too low, then foftly open your liock with your wedge, and 
fee if your incifion of your graffe he meet and juft according to 
the cleft; if not,, make it until! it be meet,.. or elfelaw him ott* 
lower. , , , , 
How graffes never lightly take. 
A Eove all things ye muil confider the meeting of the two faps, -. 
betwixt the graffe and the wild ftoek, which muft be fet m 
juft one with another : for ye (hall underhand, if they do r^ot )oy^o ^ 
and the one delight with the other, being even they (hall ne- 
ver take together,- for there is nothing to joyne their, increale, but « 
onely the fap, recounting the one agauift the other. 
How to fet the gr>affes right in the r/r/i. « 
■TTTTHen the b<irkc of the ftoek is thicker then the- 
V V graffe, ye muft take. good heed, of the fetting in of ^the 
