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.

In taking up Trees, note.

YE may well leave the maister root in the hole (when ye digge him up) if the removed place be good for him, cut off the master roots by the stub, but pare not off ••ll the small roots, and so plant him, and he shall profit more thus, then others with all their maister roots. When as Trees be great, they must be disbranched, or boughes cut off, before they be set again, or else they will hardly prosper. If the Trees be great, having great branches or boughes, when ye shall digge them up, ye must disbranch them afore ye set them again, for when Trees shall be thus proined, they shall bring great

Cions from their Roots, which shall be frank and good to replant, or set in other places, and shall have also good bran∣ches and roots, so that after it shall not need to graffe them any more, but shall continue one after another to be free and good.