g The Englijh Gardner. 
By laying almoft any fort of Trees or Shrubs will grow, 
if a little Incifion be made, as, I fhall mention afterward. 
As 
Mulberries , 
Cornelions , fometimes of 
Slips. 
Lime-trees, 
Gilder-Rofes , 8cc. 
Rofes of all forts. 
Thefoafon for fotting of the cutting of Trees to grow, 
is the lame with planting of Fruit-trees y From the fall of the 
leaf, to the end of February. 
The feafon to increafe Trees, and by laying, is any time, 
either Spring, Summer, or Winter 3 But by laying in the 
Spring or Summer, they may be fit to take off, and plant the 
Winter following. 
Of the Order and Manner of Graffng, and firfi of the 
necejfary Tools for that purpofe. 
T Hat you may proceed orderly, you are to furnifhyour 
folf with a fine fmall Saw, that is well let and (harp, 
alfo a good ftrong Pruning Knife, being made a very 
little coming, which will be very ready to cut off Heads of 
your Stocks which you intend to Graft, if they be not too 
big 5 but fome ufo a kind of drawing Knife for that purpofe, 
and is a little quicker than a Saw 5 alfo a good ordinary mid- 
ling Knife to cleave your Stocks, as alfo to cut your Cyons, 
if it be not very good, or elfe another only for that purpofe, 
which muft be kept very {harp, therefore you are to have a 
Whetftone to quicken your Knives, as occafion requires, al¬ 
fo a flick of a foot or nine inches long, made of a piece of an 
old fpadeor {hovel-handle, or fome other hardWood toufe 
in the dead of a Mallet to drive your Knife when you cleave 
your flock 5 it is rfiore convenient and handfom for the pur¬ 
pofe, as alfo an Iron Tool about an handful in length, or lit¬ 
tle more,made turning at each end about an inch and an half, 
if it be fteel’d at either end it will be the better, and not fo 
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