should leaue it behind with the wood, then the rest of the Scutcheon were nothing
worth. You shall find out if the Scutcheon be nothing worth, if looking within it,
when it shall be pulled away from the wood of the shoot, you find it to haue a hole
within, but more manifestly, if the bud be stayed behind with the wood in the shoot,
when it ought to haue beene in the Scutcheon. Thus your Scutcheon being well rai∣sed
and taken off, hold it a little by the taile betwixt your lips, without wetting of it,
euen vntil you haue cut the barke of the tree where you would graft it, and looke that
it be cut without anie wounding of the wood within, after the fashion of a 〈◊〉〈◊〉,
but somewhat longer than the Scutcheon that you haue to set in it, and in no place
cutting the wood within.
After you haue made incision, you must open it and make it gape wide on both
sides, but in all manner of gentle handling and entreatie, and that with little 〈◊〉〈◊〉
of bone; and separating the wood and the barke a little within, euen so much at the
Scutcheon is in length and breadth, you must take heed that in doing hereof you doe
not hure the brake. This done, take your Scutcheon by the end, and the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 which
you haue left remaining, and put it into the incision made in the tree, listing vp 〈◊〉〈◊〉
the two sides of the incision with the said little Scizars of bone, and cause the said
Scutcheon to ioyne and lye as close as may be vnto the wood of the tree (being 〈◊〉〈◊〉
hath beene said) in weighing a little vpon the end of the rind so cut, and let the vpper
part of the Scutcheon lye close vnto the vpper end of the incision or barke of the said
tree: afterward, bind your Scutcheon about with a band of hempe, as thicke as the
pen of a quill, more or lesse, according as the tree is small or great, taking the same
hempe in the middest, to the end that eyther part of it may performe a little seruice
in wreathing and binding of the said Scutcheon, into the incision of the Tree, and it
must not be tied too strait, for that would keepe it from taking, the joyning of the
one sappe to the other being hindered thereby, and neither the Scutcheon no•• yet
the hempe must be moist or wet. And the more justly to bind them together, begin
at the backside of the tree, right ouer against the middest of the incision, and from
thence come forward to joyne them before, aboue the eyelet and taile of the Scut∣cheon
(crossing your band of hempe so oft as the two ends meet) and from hence
recurning backe againe, come about and tie it likewise vnderneath the eyelet, and
thus cast your band about still forward and backward, vntill the whole cleft of the
incision be couered aboue and below with the said hempe, the eyelet onely excep∣ted
and his taile, which must not be couered at all; this taile will fall away one 〈◊〉〈◊〉
after another, and that shortly after the ingrafting, if so be that the Scutcheon will
take, Leaue your trees and Scutcheons thus bound for the space of one month, and
the thicker, a great deale longer time; afterward looke them ouer, and if you 〈◊〉〈◊〉
them growne together, vntie them, or at the least cut the hempe behind, and le••••
them vncouered, cut also your branch two or three fingers aboue, that so the impe
may prosper the better, and thus let them remaine till after Winter, about the mo∣neth
of March and Aprill. If you perceiue that the bud of your Scutcheon swell
and come forward, then cut off the tree three fingers or thereabout about the Scut∣cheon:
for and if it should be cut off too neere the Scutcheon, a•• such time as it pur∣tech
forth his first blossome, it would be a meanes greatly to hinder the flowing of
it, and cause also that it should not thriue and prosper so well: after that one yeare 〈◊〉〈◊〉
past, and that the shoot beginneth to be strong, beginning to put forth the 〈◊〉〈◊〉
bud and blossome, you must goe forward to cut off in biace wife the three fingers 〈◊〉〈◊〉
the top of the tree, which you left there when you cut it in the yeare going before, 〈◊〉〈◊〉
hath beene said. When your shoot shall haue put forth a good deale of length, you
must sticke downe there euen hard joyning thereunto little stakes, tying the•• toge∣ther
verie gently and easily, and these shall stay your shoots, and prop the•• vp, le••∣ting
the wind for doing any harme vnto them.
In this sort you may easily graft white Rose-trees in red Rose-trees, and red Rose-trees
in white Rose-trees, to haue Roses of diuers sorts vpon one and the same Rose-tree.
You may graft after the same manner two or three Scutcheons, prouided that