Thnting and Graffing. 2 r 
better it were to cut them off with the old wood, and chufe a better' 
and fairer place at fome other eye in the fame graffe, and to make 
your incifion thereunder, as aforefaid, and cut your graffes in 
making the incifion on the one fide narrow, and on the other fide 
broad, and the inner fide thin, and the out fide thick^ becaufe the 
outfide (ofyour graffe) muftjoyne within the cleft, with the fap of 
the barke of the wild ftock, and it fhall be fo fet in. See alfo that 
ye cut it fmooth as your clefts are in the ftock, in joyning at every 
place both even and clofe, and efpecially the joynts or corners of 
the graffes on the head of the ftock, which muft be well and cleane 
pared before, and then fet faft therein. 
Hovp to cut graffe J for Cheries and Plumi. 
TTisnot much requifite in the Healme Chery, for tojoyncthc 
■Agraffes (in the ftock) wholly throughout, as it is in others, or to 
cut the graffes of great Cheries, DamfonS, or Plums, fo thin and 
plaineas ye may other graffes, for thefe forts have a greater 
fap or pith within, the which ye rauft alwaies take heed in cutting 
it too nigh on the one fide, or ©n the other, but at the end thereof^ 
chiefly to be thin cut and flat* 
Note alfo. 
A Nd yet if the faid incifion be ftraighter and clofer on ' 
the one fide then on the other fide, par.; it where it is moft meet, 
and where it is too ftraight open it with a wedge of Iron, and put 
in a ivedge of the fame wood above in the cleft, and thus may ye 
moderate your graffes as ye ftiali fee caufe. 
How in grajfing to taj^e heed that the barite do not rife. 
TN all kind of cutting your graffes, take heed to the barke of your 
J graffes that it do not rife ( from the wood ) on no fide thereof, , 
and rpecially on the outfide, therefore ye lhall leave it thicker 
then the inner fide : Alfo ye' muft take heed whenas the ftocki do ’ 
wreath in cleaving, that ye may yoyne the graffe therein according- 
ly : the beft remedy therefore is to cut it fmooth within, that the 
graffe may joyne the better : ye (hall alfo unto the greateft^ 
ftock, chufe for them the greateft graffes. 
How to cut your focl^, 
H Ow much the more your ftock is thin and {lender, fo much’ ^ 
more ye ought to cut him lower, and if your ftock be as great 
as your finger, or thereabouts, ye may cut him a foot or half a > 
foot from the earth, and dighem about, and dung him with Goats 
E 3 dung: 
