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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¶How to make the space from one ranke to another.

YE shall leaue betwene your rankes, from one ranke to another, one foote, or there aboutes, so that ye maye passe betwéene euery ranke for to cleanse them yf neede require, and also for to graffe any part or parcell thereof when time shalbe méete. But ye must note, in making thus your rankes, ye shall make so many allies as rankes. And if ye thinke it not good to make so many allies, then deuide those into quarters of fiue foote broade or thereabouts, and make or set foure rankes (in eche quarter of the same) one foote from another, as ye vse to set great Cabbage. And as soone after as ye haue set them in rankes and in good order as is aforesaide, then shall ye cut of all the sets euen by the grounde. But in thus doing sée that ye do not plucke vp or loose the erth which is about them: or if ye will, ye may cut them before ye do set them in rankes. If ye do so, sée that ye set them in such good order and euen with the erth, as is aforesayde. And it shal suffice also to make your rankes as ye shal sée cause. And loke that ye furnish the earth al ouer with good dung, without mingling of it in the earth, nor yet to couer the sayd plantes withal, but strowed betwixt: and ye must also loke well to the cleansing of wéedes, grasse, or other such things which will be a hurt to the growth of the plantes.