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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A Table of all the principall things contained in this Booke. Of the seaven Chapters following.
CHAP. I. Treateth of the setting of Curnels, of Apple-trees, Plum-trees, Peare-trees, and Service-trees.
HOw to choose your Pepins at the first pressing.
Meanes to use the Earth to sow your Pepins on.
Seeing unto the Poultry for marring your beds, and how to weed or cleanse your beds or quar∣ters.
Wilde Cions how to plucke them up.
CHAP. II. Treateth how to set your wilde Trees which come of Pepins, when they be first pluckt up.
VVIld trees that come of Pepins how to dung them.
Principall Roots how to cut them in setting againe.
Young trees, how to set them in a ranke.
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Spaces from one ranke to another, and how to make them.
Plants being dry, how to water them.
Removing your trees, how to plant them againe.
Removing, how to know the fittest time for it.
Negligence and forgetfulnesse, and the hurt of it.
Not so good to graffe the Service-tree, as to set him.
Some trees without Graffing have good fruit, and other being graffed, have but evill fruit.
For to augment and multiply your trees.
The manner to change the fruit of the Pepin-tree.
How to make good Cyder.
To make an Orchard in few yeares.
CHAP. III. Is of the setting of Trees which come of Nuts.
HOw to set trees that doe come of Nuts, and the time to plant or set them.
To set them in the Spring.
Dunging and deep digging thereof.
Stones and Nuts like the trees they come of.
Planting the said Nuts.
Why fruit shall not have so good savour.
To set the Pine-tree.
To set Cherry-trees.
Trees of bastard or wilde Nuts.
To set Filberds and Hasell wands.
To set Damsons and Plum-trees.
To graffe Cions of Plums on the like.
To set all sorts of Cherry-trees.
How to order Plum-trees and Cherry trees.
How to graffe Plum-trees and Cherry-trees.
How to proyne or cut trees.
How to cleanse and dresse the rootes of trees.
To keepe the stocke being greater then the graffes.
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The remedy when a bough is broken.
How to enlarge the hole about the rootes.
To set small staves to stay your Cions.
What tree to proyne.
Why the sower Cherry dureth not so long as the great Helme Cherry.
To graffe one great Cherry with another.
Of deepe setting or shallow.
CHAP. IV. Sheweth how to set other Trees of great Cions prickt in the earth without Rootes, with the proyning of lesser Cions.
BRanches being prickt giving rootes to trees.
How to set them.
How to bind them that be weake.
Huw to digge the Earth to set them in.
Cions without rootes.
Planting of the Fig tree.
Setting of Quinces.
Setting of Mulberry-trees.
Cutting-time for Cions.
Setting Bush-trees, as Gooseberries and small Reisons.
A Note thereof.
CHAP. V. Treateth of foure manner of Graffings.
DIvers wayes of Graffing.
Graffing of all sorts of trees.
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Graffing of Apple trees, Peare-trees, Quince-rrees, and Med∣lar-trees.
Graffing of great Cherries.
Graffing Medlars on other Medlars.
Divers kinds of Graffes on one tree.
Graffing of the Fig-tree.
Graffing the great Abricockes.
Graffing the Service-tree.
Setting the Service-tree.
Trees hard to graffe in the Shield,
How to see to Trees charged with fruit.
Choosing of trees to choose your Cions in
Cions on the East part are best.
Choosing of your tree for Graffes.
To keepe Graffes a long time.
To keepe Graffes ere they bud.
How you ought to begin to graffe.
When is good Graffing the wilde Stockes.
To marke if the tree be forward or not.
When ye Graffe, what to be furnished withall.
Of Graffes not prospering the first yeare.
For to Graffe well and sure.
How to trim your Graffes.
How to cut Graffes for Cherries and Plums.
A Note of your incision.
To be heedfull in Graffing least you raise the barke.
How to cut your stocke.
If your wilde stocke be great or slender.
Trees as great as a mans Arme.
Great trees as big as ones Leg.
The Graffes being pinched in the Stockes.
How you ought to cleave your stockes.
To graffe the branches of great trees.
How to cut great old branches.
How to bind your Graffes against winds.
To set many Graffes in one cleft.
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To saw your stocke before ye leave him.
If the stocke cleave too much, or the barke open.
How Graffes never lightly take.
How to set Graffes right in the stocke.
Setting in of the Graffes.
A note of the same.
How to draw forth the wedge.
How to cover your clifts on the head.
How ye ought to see well to the close binding up of your Graffes.
How ye ought to temper your clay.
How to bush your Graffe-heads.
The second stay to Graffe high Branches.
The third manner of Graffing, is betwixt the barke and the Tree.
Dressing the head, to place your Graffes betwixt the barke and the Tree.
Covering the head of your stocke.
The manner of graffing in the Shield.
To graffe in Summer, so long as the Trees be leaved.
Big Cions are best to graffe.
Manner to take of the Shield.
If your Scutchion or Shield be good or bad, how to know it.
Graffing on young Trees.
Setting or placing your Shield.
A Note on the same.
Raising up the barke to set the Shield on.
Binding on your Shield.
A Tree will beare the graffing of two or three Shields
Unbinding time for your Shield.
Cutting the Branches grafted on Trees.
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CHAP. VI. Is of transplanting or altering the Trees.
BEst to transplant or set them timely.
To plant or set towards the South.
Cutting the Branches before ye set.
Apple-trees commonly must be disbranched before ye set them againe.
All wilde stockes must be disbranched.
What Trees doe love the Sunne, and what the cold ayre.
Many sorts and manners of Trees.
Planting or setting Trees at large.
Right ordering your Trees.
The best manner to enlarge the holes when you plant your Trees.
Dung and good Earth for your Trees.
If Wormes be in the earth at your rootes of Trees.
Digging the Earth well about the rootes.
Nature of the places.
Goodnesse of the Earth.
With what ye ought to bind your Trees.
CHAP. VII. Is of Medicining and keeping the Trees, when they ••e Planted and Set.
FIrst our councell is, when your Trees are but Plants (in dry weather) they must be watered.
With what Dung ye ought to dung your Trees.
When ye ought in Summer ro uncover your Trees.
When to cut or proine your Trees.
Cutting off great Branches, and when.
Leaving great Branches cut.
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Great Branches, and of the trees that beare them.
Barrennesse of trees, of cutting ill branches, and uncovering the rootes.
Which Trees ye must breake or plucke up the rootes.
What doth make a good Nut.
Cattle eating and destroying trees, how to graft them again.
Wilde stockes ought not hastily to be removed.
When to cut naughty Cions from the head.
Sometime how to cut the principall members.
How to guide and governe the said Trees.
A kind of Sicknesse in Trees.
Wormes in the barkes of trees.
Snailes, Antes, and Wormes that marre trees.
How to take those strange creeping Wormes.
Keeping Antes from the trees.
A Note of ill ayres and weathers.
Defence from the Caterpiller.
Heere followeth the Table of Graffing strange and subile wayes, in using of Fruites and Trees.
GRaffing one Vine upon another.
To helpe a tree long without fruit.
To have Peaches two moneths afore others.
To have Damsons unto Alhallontide.
To have Medlers, Cherries, and Peaches, in eating to tast like spice.
How to make a Muscadell tast.
To have Apples and Peares to come without blossoming.
To have Apples and Chesnuts rath, and long on the trees to remaine.
To have good Cherries unto Alhallontide.
To have rath Medlers two moneths before others.
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To have Peares timely.
To have Misplers and Medlars without stones.
How to have other Peares betimes.
Mulberries how to ripen them very soone, and dure long.
Keeping of Peares a yeare.
To have fruit tast halfe an Apple and halfe a Peare.
Graffing time.
Graffing the Quine-Apple.
Manner to destroy Pismires or Ants about the Tree.
Another way of the same.
Nuts, Plums, and Almonds, how to have them greater and fairer then others.
How to make an Oke or other Tree as greene in Winter as Summer.
Planting with Rootes, and without Rootes.
Keeping fruit from the Frost.
Choice dayes to Plant and Graffe.
Greene Roses all the yeare.
Reisons or Grapes good a yeare long.
Laxative fruit from the tree, how to make it.
A Note for all Planters and Graffers.
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.
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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.
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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.
The Authors Conclusion of this Table.
TO God be praises on hiein all our Worldly Planting,And let vs thanke the Romaines also,for the Art of Graffing, and Gardening.
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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.
The end of the Table.
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