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 ...

The making of Cyder and Perrie.

OF Apples and Peares, men doe make Cyder and Perry, and because the use thereof in most places is knowne, I will heere let passe to speake any furthet thereof, but this (in the pressing your Cyder) I will counsell you to keepe cleane your vessels, and the places where as your fruit doth lye, and specially after it is bruised or broken, for then they draw filthy ayre unto them, and if it be nigh the Cyder shall be infected therewith, and also beare, the tast after the infection thereof, therefore as soone as you can, tun it into cleane and sweet ves∣sels, as into vessels of white Wine, or of Sacke, or of Cl••ret, and such like, for these shall keepe your Cyder the better and the stronger a long time after: ye may hang a small bag of linnen b•• a threed downe into the lower part of your Vessell, with Powder of Cloves, Mace, Cinamond, and Ginger, and such like, which will make your Cider to have a pleasant tast.