¶How one ought to set them.
FOr to set these sortes of trées, ye must cut off the cions, twigges or boughes, betwixt Alhallowtide and christ∣masse, not lightly after. Ye shal choose them which be as
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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- 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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- Mascall, Leonard, d. 1589.
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- Grafting -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A07168.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 28, 2025.
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great as a little staffe or more, and looke whereas ye can finde them fayre, smooth, and straight, and full of sap wyth∣all, growing of yong trées, as of the age of thrée or foure yeares growth or there abouts, and looke that ye take them so from the trée with a brode chysell, that ye breake not, or lose any part of the barke thereof, more than halfe a foote beneath, neyther of one side or other: then proyne or cut of the braunches, and pricke them one foote deepe in the earth, well digged and ordered before.