When one will graffe, what necessaries he ought to be furnished withall.

VVHensoever ye goe to graffing, see ye be first furnished with grafts, clay and mosse, clothes or barkes of sallow to bind likewise withall. Also ye must have a small Saw, and a sharpe knife, to cleave and cut Graffes withall. But it were much better if ye should cut your grafts with a great Penknife or some other like sharpe knife, having also a small wedge of hard wood, or of Iron, with a hooked knife, and also a small Mallet. And your wild stockes must be well rooted before ye do graffe them: and be not so quick to deceive your selves, as those which doe graffe and plant all at one time, yet they shall not profit so well, for where the wild stock hath not substance in himselfe, much lesse to give unto the other grafts, for when a man thinkes sometimes to forward him∣selfe, he doth hinder himselfe.