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 ...
Mascall, Leonard, d. 1589., Scot, Reginald, 1538?-1599.
How to graft Plum-trees and Cherry-trees.
YE may well graffe Plum-trees and great Cherry-trees, in such good order as ye list to haue them, and as hereafter shall be declared in the fifth Chapter following: for these would be graffed while they are yong and small, and also graft in the ground, for thereby one may dresse and trim them the better, and put but one graffe in each stock of the same. Cleave not the heart, but a little on the one side, nor yet deep or long open.
