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 guide and governe the said Trees.

VVHen that your Trees doe begin to spring, ye must order and see to them well, the space of three or foure yeares or more, untill they be well and strongly grown, in helping them above, in cutting the small twigs, and super∣fluous wood, untill they be so high without branches, as a man, or more if it may be, and then see to them well, in placing the principall branches if need be, with forkes or wands prickt right, and well about them at the foot, and to proine them, so that one branch doe not approach too nigh the other, nor yet fret the one the other, when as they doe enlarge and grow, and ye must also cut off certaine branches in the Tree, where as they are too thicke.