A booke of the arte and maner, howe to plant and graffe all sortes of trees howe to set stones, and sowe pepines to make wylde trees to graffe on, as also remedies and mediicnes [sic]. VVith diuers other newe practise, by one of the Abbey of Saint Vincent in Fraunce, practised with his owne handes, deuided into seauen chapters, as hereafter more plainely shall appeare, with an addition in the ende of this booke, of certaine Dutch practises, set forth and Englished, by Leonard Mascall.

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Title: A booke of the arte and maner, howe to plant and graffe all sortes of trees howe to set stones, and sowe pepines to make wylde trees to graffe on, as also remedies and mediicnes [sic]. VVith diuers other newe practise, by one of the Abbey of Saint Vincent in Fraunce, practised with his owne handes, deuided into seauen chapters, as hereafter more plainely shall appeare, with an addition in the ende of this booke, of certaine Dutch practises, set forth and Englished, by Leonard Mascall.
Author: Mascall, Leonard, d. 1589.
Publication: Imprinted at London :: By Henrie Denham, for Iohn Wight,; [1572]
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Subject terms: Grafting -- Early works to 1800.; Fruit-culture -- Early works to 1800.; Gardening -- Early works to 1800.
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To set or plant the Cherry.

CHerry trées, and all the trées of stone fruit, woulde be planted or sette of cions, in colde groundes and places of good earth, and lykewise in highe or hilly places, dry and well in the shade: if ye doe remooue, ye ought to remooue them in Nouember and Ianuary, if ye shall sée your Cherry trée waxe rotten, then shall ye make a hole in the mids of the body two foote aboue the ground, with a digge pearcer, that the humor maye passe forth thereby, then afore the spring, shutte him vp againe with a pinne of the same trée: thus ye may doe vnto all other sortes of trées when they beginne to rotte, and is also good for them which beare scant of fruit or none.