How one ought to set them.
FOr to set these sorts of Trees, ye must cut off the Cions, twigges, or boughes, betwixt Alhallontide and Christmas,
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 23, 2024.
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not lightly after. Ye shall choose them which be as great as a little staffe or more, and looke whereas ye can find them, faire, smooth, and straight, and full of sappe withall, growing of young trees, as of the age of three or foure yeares growth or thereabouts, and looke that ye take them so from the Tree with a broad Chizell, that ye breake not or loose any part of the barke thereof, more then halfe a foote beneath, neither of one side or other: then proine or cut off the branches, and pricke them one foote deepe in the earth, well digged and or∣dered before.