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 graffe one Vine upon another.

BUt to graff one Vine upon another, ye shall cleave him as ye doe other trees, and then put the Vine graff in the cleft, then stop him well and close with Wax, and so bind him and, he shall grow.

YE shall uncover his root, and make a hole with a Piercer or small Augur in the greatest root he hath, without piercing through the root, then put a pin in the said hole of dry Wood, as Oake or Ashe, and so let it remine in the

said hole, and stop it close againe with wax, and then cast earth and cover him againe, and he shall beare the same yeare.