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 cut and govern the Branches graffed on the Tree.

THen in the next year after that the Cions shall be well strengthened, and when they do begin to spring, then shall ye cut them all hard off about the Shield above, for if ye had cut them so nigh in the first year, when they begin first to spring or but, it should greatly hinder them against their increase of growing: also when those Cions shall put forth a fair Wood, ye must bind and stay them in the midst, fair and gently with small wands, or such like, that the wind and weather hurt them not. And after this manner of graffing, is practised in the Shield or Scutchion, which way ye may easi∣ly graffe the white Rose on the Red: and likewise ye may have Roses of ••ivers colours and sorts upon one branch or Root, This I thought sufficient and meet do declare, of this kind of graffing at this present.