"...for everyone hath written according to the nature of his country. The Greeks for Greeke, the Barbarians for Barbarie, the Ialian for Italie, the French men for Fraunce, &c. Which writing without the order and practice, doeth very small profit for this our realme of England, whe which iIcan blame nothing more then the negligence of our nation , which hath small care heretofore in planting and graffyng in some places of this realm (as Ihave knowen) where as good and well disposed have graffed, the evill and malicious person hath soon after destroyed them."from: A booke of the arte and manner how to plant and graffe all sorts of trees, how to sette stones and sow pepins, to make wild trees to graffe on, as also remedies & medicines. With diuers other new practises, by one of the abbey of S. Vincent in Fraunce, practised with his owne hands: deuided into VIJ chapters, as hereafter more plainly shall appeare, with an addition in the ende of this booke, of certaine Dutch practises, set forth & English
by Leonard Mascall, 1589.
