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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¶Of barrennesse of trees, the time of cutting yll braunches, and of vncouering the rootes.

SOmetimes a man hath certaine olde trées, which be al∣most spent, as of the Peare trées and Plum trées, and other great trées, the which beare scant of fruite, but when as ye shall sée some braunches well charged there∣with, then ye ought to cut of all the other yll braunches and bowes, to the ende that those that remaine may haue the more sap to nourishe their fruite, as also to vncouer their rootes after Alhallowtide, and to cleaue the most greatest rootes therof (a foote from the tronke) and put in∣to the sayde cleftes, a thin slate of hard stone, there let it re∣maine, to the ende that the humour of the trée, may enter out thereby, and at the ende of Winter ye shall couer him againe with as good and fat earth as ye can get, and let the stone alone.