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.

Of many sorts and manner of Trees following their nature.

THe Damson or Plum tree doth love a cold fat earth, and clay withall, the (Healm) great Cherry doth love to be set or planted upon Clay. The Pine-tree loveth light earth, stony and sandy. The Medlar commeth well enough in all kinde of grounds, and doth not hinder his fruit, to be in the shadow and moist places. Hasel nut trees love the place to be cold, lean, moist and sandy. Ye shall understand, that every kind of fruitful Tree doth love, and is more fruitfull in one place, than another, as according unto their nature. Never∣theless, yet we ought to nourish them (all that we may) in the place where we set them in, in taking them from the place &

ground they were in. And ye must also consider when one doth plant them of the great and largest kind of Trees, that every kind of Tree may prosper and grow, and it is to be considered also if the Trees have commonly grown afore so large in the ground or not, for in good earth the Trees may well prosper and grow, having a good space one from ano∣ther, more than if the ground were lean or naught.