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 digge the Earth to set them in.

ANd when that ye would set them in the earth, ye must first prepare to digge it, and dung it well throughout a 〈…〉〈…〉 ••eep in the earth. And then ye shall set them eve∣ry one in his place made (before) with a crow of Iron, and for to make them take root the better, ye shall put with your Plants watered Oates, or Barley, and so ye shall let them grow the space of three or four yeares, or when they shal be branched, then ye may remove them, and if ye break off the old stubby root, and set them lower, they will last a long time the more. If some of those Plants doe chance to put forth Cions from the root, and being so rooted, ye must pluck them up, though they be tender, and set them in other places.