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 setting of Hoppe Rootes.

HAving made your provision of rootes in this wise, re∣turne therewith to your Garden speedily, and either set them immediately, or lay them in some Puddle neare thereun∣to, or bury them in the ground untill conveniency of winde, weather, and leisure (the want whereof may sometimes pre∣vent good expedition) shall serve. Provided alwayes that you leave them not in water or puddle above xxiiii. houres, but in the earth you may leave them as long as the time of setting endureth, that is to say, till the middest of Aprill.

Your Garden being dressed, as before I advise you, it shall be easie for you to direct your hills aright, and that in equall distance with a Poale, or rather with a line (that will not stretch) tying thereupon short threds, or placing in it pinnes, according to the proportion of space which you meane to leave betweene your hills, whereof if one be placed out of order, it shall blemish and hurt a great part of your Garden.