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 ...

Trees which have Wormes in the Barke.

OF Trees which have Wormes within their Barkes, is where as ye shall see a swelling or rising therein, there∣fore ye must cut or cleave the said barke unto the wood, to the end the humour may also distill out thereat, and with a little hooke ye must plucke or draw out the said wormes, withall the rotten wood ye can see, then shall ye put upon the said place, a Plaister made of Oxe Dung, or Hogs Dung, mingled and beaten with Sage, and a little of unsleckt Lime, then let it be all well boild together, and wrap it on a cloth, and bind it fast and close thereon so long as it will hold. The Lees of Wine shed or powred upon the Rootes of Trees (the which be somewhat sicke through the coldnesse of the Earth) which Lees doth them much good.