If you must carry grafts farre, pricke them into a Turnep newly gathered, or lay earth about the ends.
If you set stones of Plummes, Almonds, Nuts, or Peaches: First let them lye a little in the Sunne, and then steepe them in Milke or Water, three or foure dayes before you put them into the earth.
Dry the kernels of Pippins, and sow them in the end of Nouember.
The stone of a Plum-tree must be set a foot deepe in Nouember, or February.
The Date-stone must be set the great end downwards, two cubits deepe in the earth, in a place enriched with dung.
The Peach-stone would be set presently after the Fruit is eaten, some quantity of the flesh of the Peach remaining about the stone.
If you will haue it to be excellent, graft it afterward vpon an Almond tree.
The little Siens of Cherry-trees, grown thicke with haire, rots, and those also which doe grow vp from the rootes of the great Cherry-trees, being remoued, doe grow better and sooner then they which come of stones: but they must be remoued and planted while they are but two or three yeeres old, the branches must be lopped.
The Contents of the Art of
Propagating Plants.
| The Art of propagating Plants. | [page 109.] | Inoculation in the Barke. |
| Grafting in the Barke. | [p. 111]. | Emplaister-wise grafting. |
| Grafting in the cleft. | [p. 113]. | To pricke stickes to beare the first yeere. |
| Grafters Tooles. | To haue Cherries or Plums without stones. | |
| Time of planting & seting. | To make Quinces great. | |
| Time of grafting. | To set stones of Plummes. | |
| How to cut the stumps in grafting. | Dates, Nut, and Peaches. | |
| Sprouts and imps: how gathered. | To make fruit smell well. | |
| Grafting like a Scutcheon. | [p. 116]. | To plant Cherry-trees. |