[Sidenote: [Fol. 56*_b_.]] 139. ¶ To graffe bytwene the barke and the tree.
There is an other maner of graffinge than this, and soner done, & soner to growe: but it is more ieoperdy for [Sidenote: Another way of grafting.] winde whan it begynneth to growe. Thou muste sawe thy stocke, and pare the heed therof, as thou diddest 4 before, but cleue it not: than take thy graffe, and cut it in the ioynt to the myddes, and make the tenaunte therof halfe an inche longe or a lyttell more, all on the one syde, and pare the barke awaye a lyttel at the poynt on the 8 [Sidenote: Use a punch of hard wood.] other syde: than thou muste haue made redy a ponch of harde wood, with a stop and a tenaunte on the one syde, lyke to the tenaunte of the graffe. Than put the tenaunt of the ponche betwen the barke and the woode of the 12 stocke, and pull it out agayne, and put in the graffe, and se that it ioyne close, or els mende it. And this can-not fayle, for now the sappe cometh on euery syde, but it wyl spring soo faste, that if it stande on playne 16 [Sidenote: The graft requires protection from the wind.] grounde, the wynde is lykelye to blowe it besyde the heed, for it hath no fastnes in the wodde. And this is beste remedy for blowynge of, to cutte or clyppe awaye [Sidenote: [Fol. 57.]] somme of the nethermooste leaues as they growe. And 20 this is the beste waye to graffe, and specyally a greate tree: than claye it, and bynde it as dyddest the other, &c.
140. ¶ To nourishe all maner of stone fruite, and nuttes.
[Sidenote: Stone-fruits.] As for cheryes, dampsons, bulleys, plummes, and suche other, maye be sette of stones, and also of the scyences, growynge aboute the tree, of the same, for they wyll [Sidenote: Filberts and walnuts.] sooneste beare. Fylberdes and walnuttes maye be set of 4 the nuttes in a gardeyne, and after remoued and sette where he wyll. But whan they be remoued, they wolde be set vpon as good a grounde, or a better, or els they wyll not lyke. 8
141. ¶ A shorte information for a yonge gentyl-man, that entendeth to thryue.