® B . The Art of 
A *Io k^ewyouf Scutchion or flield tvheu be if good or had, 
Nd for the more ealic underftandih|;, if it be good or bad^ 
when it is uken from the wood, iooke within the faid Ihield, 
and if ye (hall fee it crack, or open within, then it is of no value, for 
the chief fap doth yet remain behind with the wood, which ihould 
be in the ftield, and therefore ye muft chufc and cut another fhield, 
which mutt be good and (bund, as aforefaid, and when your Scut- 
chion ihall be well taken otf from the wood,then hold it dry by the. 
oylet or eye betwixt your lip?, untill ye have cut and taken off the 
barkc from the other Cion or branch, and fet him .in that place, 
and looke that ye do not foule or wet it in your mouth. . 
OfyoHng trees to graff; on, 
B Ut ye rauft graffe on fuch trees, as be fronj the bigneile of your. 
little finger, unto as great as your arme, having their barke 
thin and Iknder, for great trees commonly have their barke hard, 
and chick, which ye cannot well graffe this way, except they have 
fome branches with a thin fmooth barke, meet foe this way to be. 
done. 
HoTP to fet orplaceysttr foield.^ 
X /"E muft quickly cut off round the barke of the tree that y« will 
J graffe on,^ a little longer then the fhield that ye fet on^ be- 
caufe it may }oyn the fooner and cafier, but take heed that in^ 
cutting off the barke, yc cut not the wood withim 
alfo. 
^Fier the incifion once done, ye muft then cover both the fides or 
ends well and fbftly withall, with a little bone or home, made, 
in manner like a thin skin, which-ye (hall lay all over thejoynts or . 
clofings of the faid ftiicid, fomewhat longer and larger, but take, 
heed for hurting or crufhing the barke thereof. 
Hew to lift tip the barke^ and Jet your Jhield on. 
^’T^His done, take your flueld or Scutchiort, by the oylet or eye 
that he hath, and open him faire and foftly by the two fides,,. 
and put them ftraightway on the other tree,' whereas the barke is 
taken off, and joyne him clofe barke to barke thereon > then plain 
it foftly above and at both the ends with the thin bone, and that 
they )oyne above and beneath barke to barke, fo that he may feed . 
well the branch of that tree. 
