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 ...

To know your Scutchion or Shield when he is good or bad.

ANd for the more easier understanding, if it be good or bad, when it is taken from the wood, looke within the said shield, and if ye shall see it cracke, or open within, then it is of no value, for the chiefe Sappe doth yet remaine behind with the wood, which should be in the ••hield, and therefore ye must choose and cut another Shield, which must be good and sound as aforesaid, and when your Scutchion shall be well taken of from the wood, then hold it dry by the oylet or eye betwix your lips, untill ye have cut and taken of the barke from tht

other Cion or branch, and set him in that place, and looke that ye doe not foule or wet it in your mouth.