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 to take off the Shield from the wood.

ANd for the better raising the said Shield, or Scutchion from the wood, after that ye have cut him round a∣bout, then slit him down, without cutting any part of the wood within, you must then raise the side next you that is slit and then take the same Shield betwixt your finger & thumb, and pluck or raise it softly off, without breaking or bruising any part thereof, and in the opening or plucking it off, hold it with your finger hard to the wood, that the sap of the oylet may remain in the Shield, for if it goe off in plucking it from the barke, and stick to the wood, your Scutchions are nothing worth.