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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Subject terms
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 23, 2024.
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A Table for the Hop-Garden.
A Perfect Platforme of a Hop-Garden.
Of unapt and apt ground for Hops.
Of the Scituation.
Of the quantity.
A proportion of the charge and benefit of a Hop-Garden.
Of the preparation of a Hop Garden.
The time to cut and set Hop Rootes.
Rules for the choice and preparation of Rootes.
Of the good Hoppe.
Of the unkindly Hoppe.
Of the wild Hoppe.
Of setting of Hop Rootes.
The distance of the Hills.
A description of the Line.
Abuses and Disorders in Setting.
Provision against annoyance, and spoyle of your Garden.
Of Poles.
Of the erection of Poles.
Of ramming of Poles.
Of Reparation of Poles.
Of pulling up Poles.
The way to make the Instrument wherewith to pull up the Hop Poles.
The manner of pulling up the Hop Poles.
Of the preservation of Poles.
Of tying of Hops to the Poles.
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Of hilling and hills.
Abuses in hilling.
Of the gathering of Hoppes.
What there is to be done in Winter herein.
When and where to lay Dung.
The order for reforming your Ground.
The order of cutting Hoppe Rootes.
Of divers mens follies.
Of Disorders and maintainers thereof.
Of an Oste.
Of the severall roomes for an Oste.
Of the Furnace or Keele.
Of the bed or upper floore of the Oste, whereon the Hoppes must be dryed.
The orderly drying of Hops.
Other manners of Dryings not so good.
The very worst way of drying Hops.
Of not Drying.
Of the packing of Hops.
The Reformation of a Garden of wild Hops.
The Reformation of a disordered Garden.
Needlesse Curiosities used by the unskilfull.
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