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.
How to set small Staves by, to strengthen your Cions.
TO avoid danger, ye shall set or sticke small staves about your Cions, for feare of breaking, and then after three or foure yeares, when they be well branched: ye may then set or plant them in good earth, (at the beginning of Winter) but see that ye cut off all their small branches hard by the stocke, then ye may plant them where ye thinke good, so as they may remaine.
