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 bind your Shield.

THis done, ye must have a wreath of good Hempe, to bind the said shield on his place; the manner to bind it is this, ye shall make a wreath of Hemp together, as great as a Gose-quill, or thereabouts, or according to the bignesse or smallnes of your Tree; then take your Hemp in the middest; that the one half may serve for the upper half of the shield, in winding and crossing with the Hemp, the said shield on the branch of the tree, but see you bind it not too straight, for it shall let him from taking or springing, and likewise their sap cannot easily come or passe from the one to the other and see also that wet come not to your shield, nor likewise the Hemp that ye bind it withall. Ye shall begin to bind your Scutchion first behind in the middest of your shield, in com∣ing stil lower and lower, and so recover under the oylet and tail of your shield, binding it nigh together, without reco∣vering of the said oylet, then ye shall return again upward, in binding it backward to the middest where ye began. Then take the other part of the Hemp, and bind so likewise the up∣per part of your shield, & increase your Hemp as ye shal need, and so return ag••in backward, and ye shall bind it so, till the fruits or clefts be covered (both above and beneath) with your said Hemp, except the oylet and the tail, the which ye must not cover, for that tail will shed apart, if the Shield do take.