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 to make the space from one rank to another.

YE shall leave between your ranks, from one rank to an∣other, one foot, or thereabouts, so that ye may passe between every rank, for to cleanse them if need require, and also to graffe any part or parcell thereof when time shall be meet. But yee must note, in making thus your ranks, ye shall make as many allies as ranks. And if ye think it not good to make as many allies, then divide those into quarters of five foot broad, or thereabouts, and make and set four ranks (in each quarter of the same) one foot from ano∣ther as ye use to set great Cabbage, and assoon after as ye have set them in ranks and in good order, as is aforesaid, then shal ye cut off all the sets even by the ground. But in this doing, see that ye do not pluck up or loose the earth that is about them: or if you will, ye may cut them before ye doe set them in ranks. If ye do so, see that yee set them in such good or∣der, and even with the earth, as is aforesaid. And it shal suffice also to make your ranks as ye shall see cause. And look that ye furnish the earth all over with good dung, without ming∣ling of it in the earth, nor yet to cover the said Plants with∣all, but strowed betwixt; and ye must also look well to the

cleansing of weeds, grasse, or other such things which, will be a hurt to the growth of the Plants.