The orchard, and the garden [con]taining cer[tai]ne necessarie, secret, and ordinarie knowledges in grafting and gardening. Wherein are described sundrie waies to graffe, and diuerse proper new plots for the garden. Gathered from the Dutch and French. Also to know the time and season, when it is good to sow and replant all manner of seedes.

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The orchard, and the garden [con]taining cer[tai]ne necessarie, secret, and ordinarie knowledges in grafting and gardening. Wherein are described sundrie waies to graffe, and diuerse proper new plots for the garden. Gathered from the Dutch and French. Also to know the time and season, when it is good to sow and replant all manner of seedes.

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London :: Printed by Adam Islip,

1594.

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Contents

• title page
• Here follow certaine common instru∣ctions, how the stumpe must be cho∣sen, whereupon you will graffe or plant.
  • Euerie plant will haue foure things.
  • At what time trees ought to be planted and set.
  • How the stumps and plantes must be prepared and dressed, which you will plant.
  • Here follow certaine instructions how the trees must be kept, and how you must labour them.
  • How to keepe plants, stumps, or trees, from the wild beastes, that they hurt them not.
  • The the Deares spoyle them not.
  • The the Hares doe not hurt them.
  • Heere follow some instructions of graffing.
  • Diuerse fashions and waies of graffing there be.
  • An other way of grafting is, when the stumps are clouen, and the sprouts afterwards are put in, the which doe as followeth.
  • Otherwise.
  • The third way of grafting.
  • The fourth way of grafting is.
  • The fifth way.
  • The sixt way.
  • The seuenth.
  • The eight way.
  • How Cherries are to be graffed, that they may come without stones.
  • How a Vine is to be planted vpon a cherry-tree.
  • How a grape of a Vine may be brought in∣to a glasse.
  • To graffe Medlers on a Peare-tree.
  • How apples or other fruits may be made red.
  • Otherwise.
  • Of the Quince tree.
  • Otherwise.
  • HOw to make that Quinces be∣come great
  • The conclusion of grafting.
  • What ioy and fruit commeth of trees.
  • The second.
  • The third is of well smelling and spiced fruit.
  • How sower fruits be made sweet.
  • How trees ought to be kept when they waxe old.
  • How trees must be kept from diuerse sicknesses, and first how to keep them from the Canker.
  • Against woormes which must be driuen out of the tree.
  • How the wormes are to be killed if they be alreadie growne into the tree:
  • Otherwise,
  • Otherwise,
  • A remedie against Caterpillers.
  • Against the Pismires or Ants, when they will hurt the yong trees.
  • How to keepe the Pismires from the Trees.
  • Another instruction.
  • In what time of the haruest the fruit must be gathered.
• illustration
• A short instruction verie profitable and necessarie for all those that delight in garde∣ning, to know the times and seasons when it is good to sow and replant all manner of seeds.
• instructions
• Worthy remedies and secretes auailing against the stroying of Snailes, Cankerwormes, the long bodied mothes, garden-fleas, earth∣worms, and moles.
• Excellent inuentions and helps against the garden Moles.