Flaming and Gr(^ng, 37 
Ofbamnnejfe of meij the time of cut ling ill branchts^ and 
of uncovering the roots, 
S ometimes a man hathcertaine old trees, which be almoft fpent, 
as of the Pear trees^ and-PIum trees, andoihcr great trees, the 
which bear leant of fruit : but when as ye fliali fee Ibme branches 
well charged therewith, then ye ought to cut off all the other ill 
branches and boughs, to the end that thofe that remiine may 
have the more fap tonourilh their fruit, and allb tb uncover their 
roots after Aihallontidcy and to tjleave the greateft foots there- 
of (a foot froHhthe trunke) and put into the Paid clefts, a thin 
flate of hard ftonej there let it remaine, to the end that the hu- 
mour of the tree may enter out thereby, and the end of Winter, 
ye lhall cover him againe, with as good and fat earth as ye can get, 
antilet the ftone alone. - 
Trees svhichye muf belp^ or pluek^up by the roots, 
A U forts of trees which Ipring Cions from the roots, as Plum 
trees, all kind of Chcry trees, and fmall Nut trees, ye mult 
help in plucking their Cions from th e roots in Winter, as foone as 
conveniently ye can, afer- the leafe is fallen. For they do greatly 
pluck down and weaken the 'faidtreesjin drawing to them the fub^ - 
ftance^of the earth— 
ff^hat doth a good Ntt', . 
B Ur chiefly to plant rhefe Cions,the beft way is to let them grow 
and be nourilhed two cr three years from the root, and then ta 
tranfplant them or ftt them in the Winter, as is aforefaid. The 
Cions which be taken from the foot of the Hafell creesjUiake good 
Nuts, and be of much ftrength and vei tue, when they are not ‘ 
fuffered to grow too long from the root, or foot aforefaid.- 
Trees eat en with bea jis^ mujl be grajfed againe. 
/"Hen certaine graffes being well in Sap, of three or ftkir 
years, or thereabouts be broken, or greatly endarhmaged > 
with beafts, which have broken thereof, it fliall little profit to leave 
thofe graffesfo, but it were better to cut them, and to graffethem * 
higher or lower then they were before. For the graffes ftialltake 
a«.well upoQ the new as old Cion being grafted on the wildffocki . 
But it fhall not fb foo'n cloff,a8 upon the wild flock head.' 
How your wildfiocJ^t ought not hazily to be removed, 
TNxhe beginning when ye have grafted your grafles on the wild ' 
X flock, do not then haflily pluck up thofe Cionr> or wild flocks 
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