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 ...
Mascall, Leonard, d. 1589., Scot, Reginald, 1538?-1599.
To make Cherries and Peaches smell and tast like spice.
HOw to make that Cherries and Peares, shall be pleasant and shall smell and tast like spice, and that ye may keepe Page 73 them well, till the new doe come againe, ye shall graffe them on the Mulberry-tree, as is afore-said: But first ye shall soake them in Hony and Water, wherein ye shall put of the powder of Cloves, Ginger, and Cinamon.
