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 ...
Mascall, Leonard, d. 1589., Scot, Reginald, 1538?-1599.
Here followeth a Table of certaine Dutch practisce.
- TO Graffe one Vine upon another.
- Chosen dayes to graffe in, and to choose your Cions,
- How to gather your Cions.
- Of Wormes in the Trees or fruit.
- The setting of stones, and the ordering thereof.
- How to gather Gumme of any tree.
- To set a whole Apple.
- The setting of Almonds.
- The watring of Pepins.
- To Plant or set Vines.
- To set or plant the Cherry tree. Page [unnumbered]
- To keepe Cherries good a yeare.
- Remedy against Pismires or Ants.
- The Setting of Chesnuts.
- To make all stone fruit tast, as ye shall devise good.
- The Graffing of the Medlar or Misple.
- The bearing of fruit of the Fig-tree.
- The Planting of the Mulberry and Fig-tree.
- The tree that beareth bitter fruit.
- To helpe barren trees.
- Another way for the same.
- To keepe fruit after they be gathered.
- The Mulberry-tree liking his earth.
- Of Mosse on your trees.
- To keepe Nuts long.
- To cut or proyne the Peach-tree.
- To colour Peach-stones.
- If Peaches be troubled with Wormes.
- Peaches without stones.
- Another way for the same.
- Which way to helpe trees that doe not prosper.
- Graffing Apples to last on the tree till Alhallontide.
- Making Cherries and Peaches smell like spice.
- Graffing an Apple-tree halfe sweet and halfe sower.
- Graffing the Rose on the Holly-tree.
- Keeping of Plums.
- Altering of Peares.
- Making of Cyder and Perry.
- How to helpe frozen Apples.
- How to make Apples fall from the tree.
- Watring trees in Summer, if they waxe dry about the root.
- How to cherish Apple-trees.
- How to make an Apple grow in a Glasse.
- How to graffe many sorts of Apples on one tree.
- How to colour Apple; of what colour ye list.
- How to graffe and to have Apples without Core.
- Setting of Vine Plants. Page [unnumbered]
- How to proine or cut a Vine in Winter.
- Grape and Vine how to order them.
- How to have Grapes without stones.
- Making a Vine to bring a Grape to tast like Claret.
- Gathering of your Grapes.
- How to know if your Grapes be ripe enough.
- How to prove or tast Wine.
- Setting, Planting, and ordering of Hops.
- How to chuse your Hops.
- How to sow the Seeds.
- Setting your Poles.
- How to proine the Hop.
- How to gather your Hops.
- What Poles are best for your purpose.
- How to order and dresse your Hills.
- Best Ground for your Hop.
- A note or all the rest above-said.
- Packing and keeping your Hops.
