o be the Scutcheon will take. Leaue your trees and
Scutcheons thus bound, for the space of one moneth, and the thicker, a
great deale longer time. Afterward looke them ouer, and if you perceiue
them to grow together, vntye them, or at the leastwise cut the Hempe
behinde them, and leaue them vncouered. Cut also your branch two or
three fingers aboue that, so the impe may prosper the better: and thus
let them remaine till after Winter, about the moneth of _March_, and
_Aprill_.

{SN: 18.}
If you perceiue that your budde of your Scutcheon doe swell and come
forward: then cut off the tree three fingers or thereabouts, aboue the
Scutcheon: for if it be cut off too neere the Scutcheon, at such time as
it putteth forth his first blossome, it would be a meanes greatly to
hinder the flowring of it, and cause also that it should not thriue and
prosper so well after that one yeere is past, and that the shoote
beginneth to be strong: beginning to put forth the second bud and
blossome, you must goe forward to cut off in byas-wise the three
fingers in the top of the tree, which you left there, when you cut it in
the yeere going before, as hath beene said.

{SN: 19.}
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{SN: 21.}
When your shoote shall haue put foorth a great deale of length, you must
sticke down there, euen hard ioyned thereunto, little stakes, tying them
together very gently and easily; and these shall stay your shootes and
prop them vp, letting the winde from doing any harme vnto them. Thus you
may graft white Roses in red, and red in white. Thus you may graft two
or three Scutcheons: prouided that they be all of one side: for they
will not be set equally together in height because then they would bee
all staruelings, neither would they be directly one ouer another; for
the lower would stay the rising vp of the sap of the tree, and so those
aboue should consume in penury, and vndergoe the aforesaid
inconuenience. You must note, that the Scutcheon which is gathered from
the Sien of a tree whose fruite is sowre, must be cut in square forme,
and not in the plaine fashion of a Scutcheon. It is ordinary to graffe
the sweet Quince tree, bastard Peach-tree, Apricock-tree, Iuiube-tree,
sowre Cherry tree, sweet Cherry-tree, and Chestnut tree, after this
fashion, howbeit they might be grafted in the cleft more easily, and
more profitably; although diuers be of contrary opinion, as thus best:
Take the grafts of sweet Quince tree, and bastard Peach-tree, or the
fai