Gardiners Working Tooles.
[Most of the images are un-named and the identifications are tentative.]
Pruning Knife
58. He beareth in this square foure
sorts of Instruments belonging to a
Gardiner; the first is a pruning Knife,
Haueing a bending point, or Hook
pointed, whose office it is to cut off
superfluous Cyons, and the heads of
yong stocks for to graft vpon.
Grafting quill
The second is a grafting quile, these
are cut after the fashion of a Gouge,
else some Iron Toole made after the
same shape, of which planters haue 3
or 4 sizes some bigger some less, made
very thin and shallow: and is called a
Grafting Gouge, with this they use to
Inoculate one Graft or Bud into an
other stock.
Penknife
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The third is a sharp pointed pen Knife, with a sharp end or point at the end of the haft.
Penknife
The fourth is an other sort of Pen Knife, something bigger then an ordinary
pen Knife, being made flat at the end
of the Haft like a small wedge, thin
and taper, with an edge at the end.
The use of it is to open and raise the
Bark of the grafting stock within, in
which you are to put your Bud, or
Graft.
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Stock chisel
59. He beareth in this square three
or foure sorts of Instrument used by
Gardiners and Planters: The first is
called a Stock Chysill, or a Grafting
Chysill; it is an Iron Toole about an
Hands breadth in length, made contrary turning at each end about an
inch and halfe wedg like, whose office
it is to be put into the clift in the top
of the stock to hold it open while the
graft is fitly placed in the stock.
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Pruning hook
60. This square beareth six sorts
Gardiners Instruments; the first is
called the Pruning hook, it is almost an
halfe round hooke with a square edge
and point, and thick back; with a
sockett to put either a long or short
handle into it. It is for cutting and
lopping of superfluous and dead
branches from trees.
Dibble
The second is the Gardiners Dibble
or setting stick, It is a long peece of
Iron with a nick at the lower end, with
a cross peece of wood like to a spade
head fastned to the top. With this
both roots and slipps from flowers are
set in the earth to grow.
Weeding hook
The Third is a long staffe, with an
Hooke turning up; set fast on the end
with a socked, this is termed a weeding
hooke; it work is to cut vp roots of
strong weed which will not be easily
pulled with the leaves.
Fork
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The Fourth is a long staffe with a Fork.
Weeder
The Fift is a long staffe, with a
Broad Hooke of three teeth turning vp,
made fast on the end of it be a strong
sockett. This is termed a weeder or a
Rooting [Pick?] It is to strike into the
ground vpon a strong weed root which
the teeth fastening in, on each side of
it, by raiseing vp, or pulling down the
other end of the staffe, will prise and
forcibly draw the whole roote out of
the ground.
Hand beetle
The sixt is termed an Hand Beetle,
or Grafting Mallet; is no other then a
thing like the head of a spade with an
handle put into the midle of the side of
it. With the Grafter driveth in his
Knife into the head of the stock where
he intends to lay in his Grafts.
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