The country-mans recreation, or The art of [brace] planting, graffing, and gardening, [brace] in three books. The first declaring divers waies of planting, and graffing, and the best times of the year, with divers commodities and secrets herein, how to set or plant with the root, and without the root; to sow or set pepins or curnels, with the ordering thereof, also to cleanse your grafts and cions, to help barren and sick trees, to kill worms and vermin, and to preserve and keep fruit; how to plant and proin your vines, and to gather and presse your grape; to cleanse and mosse your trees, to make your cider and perry, with many other secret practises which shall appear in the table following. The second treateth of the hop-garden, with necessary instructions for the making and maintenance thereof, ... with some directions for tabaco. Whereunto is added, The expert gardener, containing divers necessary and rare secrets belonging to that art, ... hereunto is likewise added the Art of angling.

How one ought to make good Syder.

HEre is to be noted, if ye will make good Syder of what fruit soever it be, bearing Pears or Apples, but specially of good Apples, and wild fruit, have alwayes a re∣gard unto the ryping thereof, so gathered dry, then put them in dry places, on boards in heaps, covered with dry straw, and whensoever ye will make Syder thereof, choose out all those which are black bruised, and rotten Apples, and throw them away, then take and use the rest for Syder: But here to give you understanding, do not as they do in the Countrey of Mentz, which do put their fruit gathered, into the mid∣dest of their Garden, in the rain and mislings, upon the bare earth, which will make them to lose their force and vertue, and doth make them also withered rough, and lightly a man shall never make good Syder that shall never come to any purpose or good profit thereof.