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 big Cions are best to graffe.

CHiefly ye must know that the smallest & worst oylets, or buds of the said Cions be not so good to graffe: there∣fore choose the greatest and the best you can find, first cut off the leaf hard by the oylet, then trench or cut the length of a barley corn beneath the oylet round about the barke, hard to the wood, and likewise above: then with a sharp point of a knife, slit it down halfe an inch beside the oylet, or bud, and with the point of a sharp knife softly raise the said Shield or Scutchion round about, with the oylet in in the middest, and all the sap belonging thereunto.