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.

Trees which have wormes in the Barke.

OF trees which have wormes within their Barkes, you shall know them when as you shall see a swelling or ri∣sing therein, therefore you must cut or cleave the said barke unto the wood, that the humour may distil out thereat, and with a little hook you must pluck or draw out the said wormes with all the rotten wood you can see, then shall you put upon the said place a plaister made of Oxe dung or Hogs dung, mingled and beaten with Sage, and a little un∣flaked Lime, then let it be well boyled together, and wrap it on a cloth, and bind it fast and close thereon so long as it will hold. The Lees of Wine shed or poured upon the roots of trees, which be somewhat sick through the coldnesse of the earth, which Lees do them much good.