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Title:  The boke of husbandry·
Author: Fitzherbert, John, d. 1531.
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tree, or suche other as beareth fruyte, than cut away all the water bowes, and the small bowes, that the pryncipall bowes, may haue the more sap. And if ye make a marke, which syde of the tree standeth towarde the sonne, that he may be set so agayne, it is soo moche the better.¶ Trees to be set without rotes and growe.THere be trees wil be set without rotes, and growe well, and sprynge rotes of them selfe. And those be dyuerse apple trees, that haue knottes in the bowes, as casses, or wydes, and suche other, that wyll growe on slauynges, and lykewyse popeler and wethy: and they must be cut cleane besyde the tree, that they growe on, and the toppe cut. cleane of. viii. or. x. fote of lengthe, and all the bowes betwene, and to be set a fote depe or more in the erthe, in good grounde. And ye shall vnderstande, that there be foure ma∣ner of wethyes, that is to say, white wethye, blacke wethy, reed wethy, and osyerde we∣thy. Whyte wethye wyll growe vppon drye grounde, yf it be sette in the begynnynge of wynter, and wyll not growe in marsshe 0