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A07168	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.	Mascall, Leonard, d. 1589.; Brossard, David. Art et manière de semer et faire pépinières de sauvageaux.	1572 (1572)	STC 17574; ESTC S112379	70,468	124

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 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 In laudem incisionis distichon Hesperidum Campi quicquid Romanaque tellus Fructificat nobis incisione datur ❧ Imprinted at London by Henrie Denham for Iohn Wight The booke vnto the Reader EChe wyght that willing is to knowe The way to graffe and plant May here finde plentie of that skill That earst hath bene but scant To plant or graffe in other tymes As well as in the spring I teach by good experience To doe an easie thing The pleasure of this skill is great The profite is not small To such men as will practise it In things méere naturall The poore man may with pleasure finde Some thing to helpe his méede So may the riche man reape some fruite Where earst he had but wéede The noble man that néedeth naught May thereby haue at will Such pleasaunt fruit to serue his vse And giue eche man his fill The common weale cannot but winne Where eche man doth entende By skill to make the good fruites mo And yll fruites to amende Weigh well my wordes and thou shalt finde All true that I doe tell Mine Authour doth not write by gesse Practise made him excell If thou wilt practise as he did Thou mayst finde out much more He hath not sound out all the truth That nature hath in store Farewell To the right honorable and my very good Lorde Syr Iohn Pawlet Knight Lorde S. Iohn Leonarde Mascall wisheth prosperous health with continuall encrease of honour RIght honorable among all sciences that may bee lightly obtayned and among many goodly exercises and experiences for men there is none among the reast more meete and requisite or that more doth refresh the vital spirits of men nor more engender admiration in the effectes of nature or that is cause of greater recreation to the wearie and traueyled spirite of man or more profitable to mans life than is the skil of planting and graffing the which not only we may see with our eyes but also feele with our handes in the secret workes of nature yea nothing more discouereth vnto vs the great incomprehensible worke of god that of one litle Pepin sede Nut or small plant may come the selfesame herb or tree to bring forth infinite of the same fruit which also doth shine and shew forth it selfe vnto vs especially in the spring time by their diuersitie of shootes blossoms buds in diuers kindes of nature by the goodnesse and mightie power of the great Lorde and Creator towardes his people in such thinges as commeth forth of the naturall earth to nourishe to sustayne and maintaine our lyues What greater pleasure can there be than to smell the sweete odour of herbes trees and fruites and to beholde the goodly colour of the same which in certaine tymes of the yeare commeth foorth of the wombe of their mother and nourse and so to vnderstande the secrete operation in the same And to be short of this labour in our lyues we do take part therof with great gaines and reuenues that come therby where as through ydlenesse there commeth none therefore to augment the same it shall be good to appease and mittigate all fond delightes and vaine pleasures with such lyke vanities and cleane put out and abolish the delightes of all vices Wherefore the Poet sayth let vs prayse the true labouring houre of the true labourer Therevpon many great Lordes and noble personages haue left their theatres pleasant stages goodly pastimes forsaking and despising their pleasures not much regarding rich Diademes and costly perfumes but haue giuen themselues to Planting and Graffing and such like In such sort that if we should diligently search and recite all the discourse of auncient Histories as of late dayes we should finde that the most noble personages through their vertue hath shewed many goodlye examples as in one Theatre a supreme degree honorable nor haue had nothing more deare more requisite or more greatly in cōmendation than Planting Graffing of fruit Cyrus a great king of the Persians as witnesse Xenophon did so much delite in the Art of planting graffing which did shew a great prayse and glorie vnto his personage that he had no greater desire or pleasure than when he might occupy himselfe in Planting Graffing to garnish the earth to place and order thereon certaine number of trees The Emperour Dioclesian as doth recite Sextus Aurelius Victor of his owne good will without any constraynt did leaue the scepter of his Empire for to remain continually in the fieldes So much pleasure did he take in planting of fruit in making of Orchardes Gardens which he did make garnish and finishe with his owne handes The Senatours Dictatours and Consuls of the Romaynes among all other things haue commended Planting and Graffing to bee one of the most flourishing labours in this worlde for the common wealth the which was celebrated and counted a great vertue yea they did so much esteeme it that they did hang tables thereof in diuers places neuer thinking the tyme more aptly spent than in Plāting Graffing nothing more contenting themselues nothing more delighted in any other affayres for the common wealth than in setting sowing or planting on the earth How much we may prayse of late dayes and commend our trauailers from other countreys it is easie to be perceyued and knowne but of Lords Gentlemen Merchants which haue had as it doth appeare a great regarde in these latter dayes howe they might folow the example of others Wherby it hath replenished this our realme with diuers straunge Plants Herbes and Trees very good and necessarie for the common wealth not heretofore commonly knowne And beholde aboue all labours for the common wealth we ought to giue a sure and certaine iudgement that Planting and Graffing is more highly to be commended and praysed than many other worthie and noble things in this worlde for this Art hath not onely from tyme to tyme beene put in vse and practise of labour through kings and princes but also it hath bene put in writing of many great and worthie personages in diuers kinde of languages as in Greke by Philometor Hieron Acheleus Orpheus Musceus Homer Hosiode Constantine Cesar and in Latin by Verron Caton Columella Paladius Virgill Amilius Macer and in the Portingall tongue by king Attalus and Mago the which reciteth the Historyes that after their death the bookes of planting and graffing were brought to Rome soone after the destruction of Carthage Likewise howe many since haue written onely of zeale

say from the first day of the newe mone vnto the .xiij. day thereof is good for to plant or graffe or sowe and for great néede some doe take vnto the .xvii. or .xviii. day thereof and not after neither graffe nor sowe but as is afore mencioned a day or two dayes afore the chaunge the best signes are Taurus Virgo and Capricorne Te haue greene Roses all the yeare FOr to haue gréene Roses ye shal as some say take your rose buds in the spring time and then graffe them vpon the holly stocke and they shall be gréene all the yeare To keepe Reysins or Grapes good a yeare FOr to kéepe Raysins or grapes good all a whole yeare ye shal take of fine dry sande and then lay your reysins or grapes therein and it shall kéepe them good a whole yeare some kéepe them in a close glasse from the ayre To make fruite laxatiue from the tree FOR to make any fruite laxatiue from the trée what fruite soeuer it be make a hole in the stocke or in the Mayster roote of the trée wyth a great pearcer sloope wise not thorow but vnto the pythe or somewhat further then fill the saide hole with the ioyce of elder of Centori of Seney or of Turbich or such like laxatiues thē fill the sayd hole therwith of which of them ye will or else ye may take thrée of them togithers and fill the said hole therewith and then stoppe the sayde hole close with soft waxe then claye it thereon and put mosse very well ouer all so that nothing may issue or fall out and all the fruite of the sayde trée shall be from thencefoorth laxatiue A note for all Graffers and Planters ALso whensoeuer ye shall plant or graffe it shalbe méete and good for you to saye as foloweth In the name of God the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost Amen Increase and multiplye and replenishe the earth and saye the Lordes prayer then say Lord God heare my prayer and let this my desire of thée be hearde The holy spirite of God which hath created all things for man and hath giuen them for our comfort in thy name O Lorde we set plant graffe desiring that by thy mighty power they maye encrease and multiplye vppon the earth in bearing plenty of fruite to the profite and comfort of all thy faithfull people thorow Christe or Lorde Amen FINIS ¶ Here followe certayne wayes of planting and graffing with other necessaries herein meete to be knowne translated out of Dutch by L. M. ¶ To graffe one Vine on another YOu that wyll graffe one Vine vpon another ye shall in Ianuary cleaue the head of the Vine as ye doe other stockes and then put in your Vine graffe or cyon but first ye must pare him thinne ere ye set him in the head then clay and mosse him as the other ¶ Chosen dayes to graffe in and to choose your cions ALso when so euer that ye wyll graffe the best chosen tymes is on the last day before the chaunge and also in the chaunge on the seconde daye after the chaunge if ye graffe as some say on the thirde fourth fift day after the chaunge it wil be so many yeres ere those trées bring forth fruit Which thing ye may beleue if ye will but I will not For some do holde opinion that it is good graffing from the chaunge vnto the .xviij. day thereof which I think to be good in all the increase of the Moone but the sooner the better ¶ To gather your cions ALso such cions or graffs which ye do get on other trées the yong trées of thrée or foure yeares or .v. or .vj. yeares are best to haue graffs Take them of no vnder bowes but in the top vpon the East side if ye can and of the fayrest and greatest Ye shall cut them .ij. inches long of the olde wood beneth the ioynt And whensoeuer ye will graffe cut or pare your graffes taperwise from the ioynt two ynches or more of length which ye shall sette into the stocke and before ye set it in ye shall open your stocke wyth a wedge of yron or harde wood fayre and softly then if the sides of your clefts be ragged ye shall pare them with the poynt of a sharpe knife on both sides within and aboue then set in your graffes close on the out sides and also aboue but let your stocke be as little while open as ye can and when your graffes be well set in plucke forth your wedge and if your stocke doe pinch your graffes much then ye must put in a wedge of the same woodde for to helpe your graffes Then ye shall lay a thicke barke or pill ouer the cleft from the one graft to the other to kéepe out the claye and rayne and so clay them two fingers thicke rounde aboute the cliffes and then lay on Mosse but Wooll is better next to your clay or else to temper your clay with Wooll or haire for it shall make it byde closer and also stronger on the stocke heade Some take Wooll next the clay and wrappeth it all ouer with linnen clowtes for the Wooll béeing once moyste will kéepe the clay so a long tyme. And other some doe take Woollen clowtes that haue béene layd in the iuyce of Wormewood or such lyke bitter thing to kéepe créeping Wormes from comming vnder to the Graffes If ye graffe in winter put your clay vppermost for sōmer your mosse For in Winter the mosse is warme and your clay will not cleaue In Sommer your claye is colde and your mosse kepes him from cleauing or chapping To bind them take of willow pilles of clouen briers of Oziers or such like To gather your graffe● on the East part of the trée is counted best if ye gather them belowe on the vnder boughes they will grow flaggie and spreading abrode if ye take them in the top of the trée they will grow vpright Yet some do gather their cions or graffes on the sides of y e trées and so graffe them againe on the like sides of the stocks the which is of some men not counted so good for fruite It is not good to graffe a great stocke for they will be long ere they couer the heade thereof Of wormes in trees or fruite IF ye haue any trées eaten with worms or do bring wormy fruite ye shal vse to wash al his body and great braūches with two partes of Kowpisse and one parte of Vineger or else if ye can get no Vineger with Kowpisse alone tempered with common ashes then wash your trées therwith before the Spring and in the Spring or in Sommer Annis seedes sowne about the trée rootes driue away wormes and the fruite shall be the swéeter The setting of Stones and ordering thereof AS for Almonde trées Peach trées Cherry trées Plum trées or others ye shal thus plant or set them Lay first the Stones in water thrée dayes and foure nightes vntyll they sinke