To cut the Peach-tree.
THe Peach-trree is of this nature, (if he be cut as some say) green, it will wither and dry. Therefore if ye cut any
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.
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- 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.
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- Barker, Thomas, fl. 1651.
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- London, :: Printed by T. Mabb, for William Shears, and are to be sold at the signe of the Bible in St. Pauls Church-yard, near the little north door,
- 1654.
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- Gardening -- England -- Early works to 1800.
- Planting (Plant culture) -- England -- Early works to 1800.
- Hops -- England -- Early works to 1800.
- Fishing -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A74931.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024.
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small branch, cut it hard by the body: the withered twigs e∣ver as they wither, must be cut off hard by the great branch, or body thereof, for then they prosper the better. If a Peach-tree do not like, ye shall put to his roots the Lees of Wine mingled with water, and also wash his roots therewi••h, and likewise the branches; then cover him again with good earth, mingled with his own Leaves, for those he liketh best. Ye may graffe Peach upon Peach, upon Hasel, or Ash, or upon Cher∣ry-tree, or ye may graffe the Almond upon the Peach-tree. And to have great Peaches, ye must take Cowes milk, and put good earth thereto, then all to strike the body of the Tree therewith, both upward and downward, or else open the root all bare, three dayes and three nights; then take Goats milk and wash all the roots therewith, and then cover them again; this must be done when they begin to blossome, and so shall he bring great Peaches.