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 pulling up Poles.

ANd because, when the hills are made great, and raised high, you can neither easily pull up any, nor possible pull up all your poles except you breake them, &c. especially if the wether or the ground be dry, or else the Poles old or small, J

thought good to shew you an Instrument wherewith you shall pull them up without disease to your selfe, destruction to your poles, or expence of your money the charge being

[illustration] pincers or tongs

only foure∣teene or fif∣teen pound of Iron, wherewith the Smith shall make you a paire of tongs, (or rather you may call them) a paire of pinsers, of the fa∣shion here set downe, the which may also be made with wood if you thiake good.