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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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