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.

To keep Ants from young trees.

FOr to keep the young trees from Snailes and Ants, it shall be good to take Ashes, and to mix unslak't Lime, beaten in powder therewith, then lay it about the root of the tree, and when it raineth, they will be beat downe into the ashes and die: but you must renue your ashes after every rain from time to time: also to keep them moist, ye must put certain small Vessels full of water at the foot of your said trees, and also the lees of wine to spread on the ground thereabouts. For the best destroying of the small Snailes on the trees, ye must take good heed in the Spring time, before the trees be leaved, then if ye shall see, as it were small warts, knobs or branches on the Trees, the same will be Snayles. Provide to take them away fair and softly before they be full closed, and take heed that ye hurt not the wood or bark of the said Tree, as little as ye can, then burne those Branches on the Earth, and tread them under your feet, and then if any doe remain or renew, look in the heat of the day, and if ye can see any, which will commonly be on the clefs or forks of the Branches, and also upon the Branches lying like toftes or Troops together, then wrap your hands all over with old clothes, and bind leaves beneath them and above them, and with your two hands rub them down therein, and im∣mediately fire it, if you doe not quickly with diligence, they will fall, and if they fall on the earth, ye will hardly kill them, but they will renew again: these kind of wormes are

noisome flies, which be very strange, therefore take heed that they doe not cast a certaine rednesse on your face and body, for whereas they be many of them, they be dangerous, it is st••ange to tell of these kind of Wormes, if ye come under or among the Trees where many be, they will cast your face and hands, your covered body (as your neck, breast, and armes) full of small spots, some red, some black some blu∣ish, which will tingle, and trouble you like so many nettles, sometimes for a day, or a day and a night after: they be most on Plum-trees and Apple-trees nigh unto moist places, and ill ayres: yet neverthelesse, by the grace of God there is no danger, that I understand to be taken by them, that if it be in the evening or in the morning, when it raineth, they will remain about the graffing place of the Tree, there∣fore it will be hard to find them, because they are so small: Moreover, if such branches doe remaine in the upper part of the boughs all under, then with a wispe on a Poles end, set fire on all and burne them.