Planting and Graffing. 2 5 
Ho»ym OHght to tanker your cl<sy» 
T He beft way therefore- is to try your clay between your hand#, 
for ftones and fuch like, and fo to temper it as ye fhall thinke 
good, if fo it require of moifmefTe or drynelTe, and to temper it 
with the haire of beafts : for when it dricth, it holdcth not (other- 
wife) fo well on the itock, or if ye knead of Mofle therewith, or 
mingle Hay thin therewith: fome do judge that the Mofs doth make 
the tree moift 3 But I thinke (faith he) that cometh of the difpoliti- 
on of places. 
lobu^yottr graft headt 
W Hcn ye (hall bind or wrap your graffe head With a band, 
take fmall thornes, and bind them within, for to defend 
your graffes from Kiies or Crowes, or danger of other fowlet, oc 
prick (harp white (licks thereon. 
‘Iht fecond way to graft high branches on trees ^ 
T He fccond manner to graffe, ii ftrange enough to many : This 
kind of graffing is on the tops of branches of Trees : which 
thing to make them grow lightly, is not fo foon obtained : where* 
foever they be graffed, they do onely require a faire young wood, 
agreat Cion or twig, growing h;gheft in the tree top, which Cions 
ye (hall chufe to graffie on, of as many forts of fruit as ye will, or at 
ye (hall thinke good, which order followeth. 
T Ake graffes of other forts of trees, which you will graffe in the 
top thereof, then mount to the top of the tree which ye would 
graffe, and cut off the tops of all fuch branches, or as many as ye 
would grjffc on, and if they be greater then the graffes, which ye 
would graffe , ye (hall cut and graffe them lower as ye do the 
fmall wild (lockaforefaid. But if the Cions that you cut be as great 
as your graffe that you graffe on, ye (hall cut them lower bstwhet the 
■old wood and the new, or a little more higher or lower : then cleave 
a little, and chufe your graffes in the like fort, which ye would 
plant, whereof ye (hall make the incifion fliort, with the barkc en 
both fides like, and as thick oa the one fide as the other, and (et fo 
ju^l in the cleft, that the barke may be even and clofe, as well above 
as b«neatfaj on the one fide as the other, and fo binde him as is a- 
forefaid. It (hall fuffice that every graffe have an oyiet, or eye, or 
two at the moll, without the joync, for to leave them too long 
it (hall not be good, and ye muft deeffe it with Clay and Moffe, 
and bind it, as is aforefaid.^ And likewife ye may Graffe chefe, as 
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