The country-mans recreation, or the art of planting, graffing, and gardening in three bookes. The first declaring divers wayes of planting, and graffing ... also how to cleanse your grafts and cions, how to helpe barren and sicke trees, how to kill wormes and vermin and to preserve and keepe fruit, how to plant and proyne your vines, and to gather and presse your grape ... how to make your cider and perry ... The second treateth of the hop-garden, with necessary instructions for the making and the maintenance thereof ... Whereunto is added, the expert gardener, containing divers necessary and rare secrets belonging to that art ...

The sixth Way.

This way teacheth how to graffe, that they may bring forth fruit the first yere, which do as follows.

Pare an old stumpe of what kind soever it be, the uppermost bark till to the lower green barke, a span long or somewhat lesse, which doe in harvest in the wane of the Moone, and anoint it with Oxe dung and earth, and tie it with barke, and after in March when trees are transposed from one place to another then cut the same branch from the tree, and put it into the ground, and it wil bring fruit the same yere. I have seene that one hath prickt sticks on Alhallow eve, in the earth, and hath pulled them out again up∣on Christmas eve, and put boughes in the holes, and they have prospered and come out.

The 〈…〉〈…〉 that the fruit bee without 〈…〉〈…〉 sp••••ut & graffe it into a great stump▪ 〈…〉〈…〉 thicke•• and lower part of the sprout, then take the upper or thinner end o the sprout, and cut it al••o fit to be graffed, and turne it downeward, and ••raffe it into the said stump; and when the sprout of both sides prospereth, cut it in the midst asunder, so that which is grown right upward with the tree, the fruit of it hath stones, but that which was the top of the sprout that groweth contrary, brings forth fruit without stones. And if so be the turn•••• sprout pros∣per, you must break off the other▪ to the end that the turned sprout doe not perish, which you may try a••∣••er this sort: for oftentimes it commeth and prospe∣••eth, and many times it is perished and spoiled.