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 cut graffes for Cherries and Plummes.

IT is not much requisite in the healme Cherrie, for to ioyne the graffes (in the stocke) wholy throughout, as it is in others, or to cut the graffes of great Cheries, dam∣sons or plums, so thin and playne as ye may other graffes, for these sort haue a more greater sap or pithe within, the which ye must alwayes take héede in cutting it to nygh on the one side, or on the other, but at the ende thereof chiefly, to be thinne cut and flat.