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._ _Grafting in the Barke._ _p. 111._ _Grafting in the cleft._ _p. 113._ _Grafters Tooles._ _Time of planting & seting._ _Time of grafting._ _How to cut the stumps in grafting._ _Sprouts and imps: how gathered._ _Grafting like a Scutcheon._ _p. 116._ _Inoculation in the Barke._ _Emplaister-wise grafting._ _To pricke stickes to beare the first yeere._ _To haue Cherries or Plums without stones._ _To make Quinces great._ _To set stones of Plummes._ _Dates, Nut, and Peaches._ _To make fruit smell well._ _To plant Cherry-trees._ THE HVSBAND MANS FRVITEFVLL ORCHARD. For the true ordering of all sorts of _Fruits in their due seasons; and how double_ increase commeth by care in gathering _yeere after yeare: as also the best way_ of carriage by land or by water: _With their preseruation for_ longest continuance. {SN: Cherries.} Of all stone Fruit, Cherries are the first to be gathered: of which, though we reckon foure sorts; _English_, _Flemish_, _Gascoyne_ and _Blacke_, yet are they reduced to two, the early, and the ordinary: the earely are those whose grafts came first from _France_ and _Flanders_, and are now ripe with vs in _May_: the ordinary is our owne naturall Cherry, and is not ripe before _Iune_; they must be carefully kept from Birds, either with nets, noise, or other industry. {SN: Gathering of Cheries.} They are not all ripe at once, nor may be gathered at once, therefore with a light Ladder, made to stand of it selfe, without hurting the boughes, mount to the tree, and with a gathering hooke, gather those which be full ripe, and put them into your Cherry-pot, or Kybzey hanging by your side, or vpon any bough you please, and be sure to breake no stalke, but that the cherry hangs by; and pull them gently, lay them downe tenderly, and handle them as little as you can.