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.

The second way to graffe high Branches on Trees.

THe second manner to graffe, is strange enough unto many: This kind of Graffing is on the tops of branches of Trees, which thing to make them grow lightly, is not so soone obtained: certaine it is, that wheresoever they be graffed, they doe onely require a faire young wood, as also a great Cion or twig, growing highest on the top of the Tree, which Cions ye shall choose to graffe on of many sorts of Fruits, if ye will, or as ye shall think good, which order followeth.

TAke graffs of other sorts of trees, which ye would graff in the top thereof, then mount to the top of the tree which you would graff, and cut off the tops of all such branches, or as many as ye would graffe on, and if they be greater than the graffes which ye would graffe, ye shall cut and graffe them lower as ye doe the small wild stock afore∣said. But if the Cions that ye cut be as big as your graffe you graffe on, ye shall cut them lower betwixt the old wood and the new, or a little higher or lower: then cleave a little, and choose your graffes in like sort which you would plant, whereof you shall make your incision short, with the barke on both sides alike, and to be as thick on the one side as it is on the other, and also set so just in cleft, that the bark may be even and close, aswel above as beneath, on the one side as the other, and so bind them as is afore∣said.

It shall suffice that every graft have an oylet or eye, or two at the most without the joynt, for to leave them too long it shall not be good, and ye must dresse it with Clay and Mosse, and bind as it is aforesaid. And likewise ye may graffe these, as ye doe little wild Stocks, which should be as big as your graffes, and to graffe them, as you doe those with sap like on both sides, but then you must graffe them in the, earth, three fingers of, or thereabouts.