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 the quantity.

THe quantity of your Garden, must either be measured by the proportion of your yearely expences of Hoppes in your house, or by the cost you meane to bestow in the pre∣paration and keeping thereof, or by the paines and businesse that you are disposed, or able to employ upon it, or else accor∣ding to the profite and gaines, that you meane to levie

and winne by it, which later consideration pleaseth and flatte∣reth much a covetous mans conceit, whose vaine or humour, (or rather vaine humour) is so resisted in the rules appertai∣ning hereunto, as many times the greedinesse of his desire is the overthrow of his purpose, as shall hereafter appeare.