14 
Art of 
Chap. IV. 
This Chapter (heweth how to fet other Trees 
which come of Wild Cions, pricked in the earth 
without roots.* and alfo ofproining the meaner Cions. 
Trees take root priekt of branches. 
8 Here be certain which take root, being pricked of bran- 
ches proined of other Trccs^ which be the Mnlbery, the 
Fig tree, the Qijince tree, the Service tree, the Pomgra- 
natc tree, the Apple tree, the Damfon tree,and divers forts 
of othei Plum trees, as the plum tree of Paradife, 8cc* 
How one ought to fet them. 
TjOrtofet thefe forts, of Trees, ye muft cut off the Cions, twigs 
or boLighes, betwixt Alhallontide and Chriftma?, not lightly 
after. Ye (hall choofe them which be as great as a little ftaff^s or 
morejandlook whereas ye can lind them fair, fmooth, and ftraight, 
andfuUoffapwichall, growing of young trees, as of the age of 
three or four-years growth, or thereabouts, and looke that ye take 
them fo from the Tree with a broad Chefill, that ye break not or 
loofe any part of the barke thereof, more then halfe a foot beneath, 
nei iher of one fide or other ; then proine or cur off the branches, 
and prick them one foot deep in the earth, well digged and ordered 
before. 
How to bind them that he weake. 
T Hofe plants which be flender, ye muft proine or cut off the 
branches, then bind them to fome flake or fuch like to be fet 
in good earth, and well mingled with good dung, and alfo to be 
well and deeply digged, and to be fet in a moifl place, ©r elfe to be 
well watred in Summer, 
How one ought to digge the earth for to jet them in. 
A Nd when that ye would let them in the earth, ye mufl firft pre- 
pare to dig it, and dung it well throughout a large foot deep 
in the earth. And when as ye will fet them every one in his place 
roadc (before) with a crow of Iron, and for to make them take 
root ^he better, ye lhall put with your Plants, watred Oates or Bar- 
fo ye lhall let them grow the fpace of three or fouryears, or 
^ when 
