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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Title: 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 ...
Publication: 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.
Cite this Item: "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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How one ought to remove Trees, and to plant them againe

THe manner how ye ought to remoue trees, is shewed in the sixt Chapter following: then about two or three yeares after their removing, ye shall graffe them▪ for then they will be the better rooted. As for the others which ye leaue still in rankes, ye may also graffe them where as they stand, as ye shall see cause good. When ye haue plucked vp the fairest to plant in either places (as is aforesayd) also the manner how to Graffe them, is shewd in the fift Chapter following But after they shall be so graft, in what place soever it be, ye shall not remoue or set them in of her places againe▪ vn••ill the Graffes be well closed vpon the head of the wild stocke.