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 barrennesse of Trees, the time of cutting all Bran∣ches and uncovering the Roots.

SOmetimes a man hath certain old Trees, which be almost spent, as of the Pear-trees, and Plum-trees, and other great Trees, the which bear scant of fruit: but when as ye shall see some Branches well charged therewith, then ye ought to cut off the other ill Branches and Boughs, to the end that those that remain, may have the more S••p to nourish their fruit, and also to uncover their root after Alhallontide, and to cleave the greatest roots thereof (a foot from the trunk) and put into the said clefts a thin slate of hard stone, there let it remain, to the end that the humour of the Tree may enter out thereby, and at the end of Winter ye shall cover him again with as good fat earth as ye can get, and let the stone alone.