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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Snayles, Ants, and Wormes, doth marre Trees.

ALso ye must take heed of all manner of young trees, and specially of those graffes, the which many Wormes and Flyes, doe endamage and hurt in the time of Summer, those are the Snailes, the Pismires, or Ants: the field Snaile, which hurteth also all other sorts of Trees that be great, principally in the time that the Cuckow doth sing, and betwixt Aprill and Midsommer, while they be tender. There be little Beasts called Sowes, which have many Legs, and some of them be gray, some black, and some hath a long sharpe snowt, which be very noysome, and great hurters of young Graffes, and other young Trees also, for they cut them off in eating the tender top (of the young Cions) as long as ones finger.