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 colour Peach-stones

TO colour Peach-stones that all the fruit therof shall have the like colour here after, that is, ye shall lay or set Peach-stones in the earth seven dayes or more, untill ye shall set the stones begin to open, then take the stones and the curnells softly forth thereof, and what colour ye will colour the cur∣nell therewith, and put them into the shell again, then bind it fast together, and set it in the earth, with the small end up∣ward, and so let him grow, and all the Peaches which shall come of the same fruit, (graffed or ungraffed) will be of the same colour. The Peach-tree ought to be planted in Autumn, before the cold do come, for he cannot abide the cold.