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.
Of young Trees to graffe on.
BUt ye must graffe on such Trees, as be from the bignesse of your little finger, unto as great as your arme, having their barke thin and slender, for great Trees commonly have their barke hard and thicke, which ye cannot well graffe this way, except they have some branches with a thinne smooth barke, meet for this way to be done.
