f lantiag md Gracing. ^ ^ 
nmight : thus may ye (k) with all other Curitels Or Nuts. 
I John:: MJImefnii tjfie «• , t jh.U tbinif md, 
b ye will hove all ftone fruit talie as ye fhall fancy orthinke 
good, ye lhall firft lay your Hones to foke in much liquor or 
motRure, asyewllhavc the fruit tail of, and then fet them as 
tortheDatetree( asfome(ay) he bringech no fruit except he be 
a hundred year old and the Date ftone muft foke one month in 
the water before he be fet, then fhall ye fet him with the fmall end 
upward tn pod fat earth, in hot Sandie ground four fingers deep, 
and whcn^the bcughs do begin to fpring, then fhall ye every night 
princk e them with raine water, (or other if ye have noneY fo 
long till they be co .iic forth and grown* 
Of grajfing the Medl a and le tree, 
F Ortograffethe Medlar or Mifple ; men do life togiaffe them 
on the white Hathorne tree, they will'prove well, butyet fmal 
and (bwer fruit ; to graffe one Medlar upon another is the better 
£ome men do graffe firft the Wilding Gion upon the Medlar ftock’ 
and fo when fie was well taken and grown, then they graffe thereon 
the Medlar againe, the which doth make them more very 
great and faire. ^ 
Of the Figtree.. 
T He Fig tree in feme Countries, beareth his fruit four times 
ayear,^ the black Figs are the beft, being dried in the Sun, 
and then laid in a veflcl in beds one by another, and then fprinkled 
or ftrawed all over, every lay with fine Meale, then flop it up, and 
foitis fentoutofthc Land. If the Fig tree will not bear, ycftiall 
dig him all about, and under the roots in February, and take out 
then all his earth, and put unco him the dung of a privie, for that 
he liketh beft : ye may mingle with it of other fat ear th, as Figeonr 
dung mingled with oyle and pepper ftampt, which fhall forward 
him much to anoint his roots therewith: ye fhall not plant the 
Fig tree, in cold times, heloveth hot, ftonie, or gravelly ground, 
and to be planted in Autumne is beft. 
Of the Mulhefy tree. 
I f ye will plant the Mulbery tree, the Fig tree or others which 
bring no feed, ye fhall cut a twig or branch (from the tree root) 
of a years growth, with the old wood or barke, about a cubit long, 
which ye fhall plam or ftt all in the earth, fa ve a (haft net long to 
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