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.
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How to set the Graffes right in the cleft.

VVHen the barke of the Stocke, is more thicker then the graft, ye must take good heed, of the setting it in of the graft in the cleft, to the end that his sappe may joyne right with the sap of the stocke, on the in-side, and ye ought like∣wise to consider of the sappe of the stocke, if he doe surmount the grafts in the out-sides of the cleft too much or not.