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.

Ordering your Trees.

WHen that ye plant or set ranks, or every kind of trees together, ye shall set or plant the smallest to∣wards the Sun, and the greatest in the shade, that they may not annoy or hurt the small, nor the small the great. Also whensoever ye will plant or set Pear-trees, and Plum-trees, in any place the one with another, better it were to set the Plum-trees next the Sun, for the Peares will dure better in the shade. Also ye must understand when you set or plant a∣ny ranks of Trees together, ye must have more space betwixt your ranks and Trees than when you set but one rank, that they may have roome sufficient on every side.

Ye shall also scarcely set or plant Peare-trees, or Apple-trees, or other great Trees upon dead or mossie barren ground unstirred; for they increase thereon to no purpose. But other lesser Trees very well may grow, as Plum-trees, and such like: now when all the aforesaid things above be considered, ye shall make your holes according to the space that shall be required of every tree ye shall plant or set, and also the place fit for the same, so much as ye may convenient, ye shall make your holes large enough, for ye must suppose

the tree you doe set, hath not the half of his roots he shall have hereafter; therefore ye must help him and give of good fat earth (or dung) all about the roots, when as ye plant him. And if any of the same roots be too long, and bruised or hurt, ye shall cut them clean off aslope wise, so that the upper side of each root so cut may be longest in setting, and for the small roots which come forth all about thereof, ye may not cut them off as the great roots.