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 ...

Of barrennesse of trees, the time of cutting all bran∣ches, and of uncovering the Rootes.

SOmetimes a man hath certaine old Trees, which be almost spent, as of the Peare-trees, and Plum-trees, and other great Trees, the which beare scant of fruit: but when as ye shall see some Branches well charged therewith, then ye ought to cut off all the other ill Branches and Boughes, to the end that those that remaine, may have the more Sap, to nourish their fruit, and also to uncover their rootes after Alhallontide, and to cleave the most greatest rootes thereof (a foote from the trunke) and put into the said clefts, a thin state of hard stone, there let it remaine, to the end that the humour of the Tree may enter out thereby, and at the end of Winter, ye shall cover him againe, with as good fat earth as ye can get, and let the stone alone.