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.
Of the good Hoppe.
THe good and the kindly Hoppe beareth a great and a greene stalke, a large, a hard and a greene bell, it appeareth out of the ground naked without leaves, untill it be halfe a foote long.
