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.

To cover your clefts on the head.

VVHen your wedge is dr••wn forth, put a green pill of the thick bark of Willow, Crab or Apple, upon the clefts of the stock, that nothing m••y fall between: then cover all about the clefts on the stock head, two fingers thick with good clay, or nigh about that thicknesse, that no Wind or Rain may enter, then cover it round with moss, and then wreath it over with clothes, pills of Willow, Bryar, or Oziars, or such like, then bind them fast, and stick cer∣tain long pricks on the graffes head amongst the Cions, to keep off the Crows, Jayes, or such like.