The country-mans recreation, or the art of planting, graffing, and gardening in three bookes. The first declaring divers wayes of planting, and graffing ... also how to cleanse your grafts and cions, how to helpe barren and sicke trees, how to kill wormes and vermin and to preserve and keepe fruit, how to plant and proyne your vines, and to gather and presse your grape ... how to make your cider and perry ... The second treateth of the hop-garden, with necessary instructions for the making and the maintenance thereof ... Whereunto is added, the expert gardener, containing divers necessary and rare secrets belonging to that art ...
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- The country-mans recreation, or the art of planting, graffing, and gardening in three bookes. The first declaring divers wayes of planting, and graffing ... also how to cleanse your grafts and cions, how to helpe barren and sicke trees, how to kill wormes and vermin and to preserve and keepe fruit, how to plant and proyne your vines, and to gather and presse your grape ... how to make your cider and perry ... The second treateth of the hop-garden, with necessary instructions for the making and the maintenance thereof ... Whereunto is added, the expert gardener, containing divers necessary and rare secrets belonging to that art ...
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- London :: Printed by B. Allsop and T. Favvcet for Michael Young, and are to be sold at his shop in Bedford-street in Coven-garden neere the New Exchange,
- 1640.
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- Gardening -- Early works to 1800.
- Grafting -- Early works to 1800.
- Hops -- Early works to 1800.
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"The country-mans recreation, or the art of planting, graffing, and gardening in three bookes. The first declaring divers wayes of planting, and graffing ... also how to cleanse your grafts and cions, how to helpe barren and sicke trees, how to kill wormes and vermin and to preserve and keepe fruit, how to plant and proyne your vines, and to gather and presse your grape ... how to make your cider and perry ... The second treateth of the hop-garden, with necessary instructions for the making and the maintenance thereof ... Whereunto is added, the expert gardener, containing divers necessary and rare secrets belonging to that art ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A19451.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 26, 2024.
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THE Country-mans Recreation, or the Art of Planting, Graffing, and Gardening, in three Bookes.
The first declaring divers wayes of Planting, and Graffing, and the best times of the Yeare, with divers Com∣modities and secrets herein, how to Set or Plant with the Roote and without the Roote, how to sow or set Pepins or Curnels with the ordering thereof, also how to cleanse your Grafts and Cions, how to helpe barren and sicke Trees, how to kill Wormes and Ver∣min and to preserve and keepe Fruit, how to plant and proyne your Vines, and to gather and presse your Grape, how to clense and Mosse your Trees, how to make your Cider and Perry, with many other secret Practises which shall appeare in the Table following.
The second treateth of the Hop-Garden, with ne∣cessary Instructions for the making and the maintenance thereof, as the Scituation, quantity, charge and benefit, prepara∣tion, time to cut and set, with Rules for the choice and preparation of Rootes, and also divers Instruments usefull for the Hop-Garden.
Whereunto is added, The Expert Gardener, containing divers necessa∣ry and rare Secrets belonging to that Art, with Directions to know the time and season to sow and plant all manner of Seeds; with divers new Inventions and Garden-knots, and also present Remedies to destroy Snailes, Can∣ker-wormes, Moths, Garden-fleas, Earth-wormes, Moles, and all other Vermin which commonly breed in Gardens.
LONDON. Printed by B. ALLSOP and T. FAVVCET for MICHAEL YOUNG, and are to be sold at his Shop in Bedford-street in Coven-garden neere the New Exchange. 1640.