To colour Apples.
TO have coloured Apples, with what colour ye shall think good, ye shall bore a hole slope with an Auger, in the big∣gest part of the body of the Tree, unto the middest thereof,
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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or thereabouts, and then look what colour ye will have them of First ye shall take water, and mingle your colour there∣with, then stop it up again with a short pin made of the same, wood or Tree, then wax it round about; ye may mingle with the said colour what spice ye list, to make them taste there∣after: thus may ye change the colour, and taste of any Apple: Your colours may be of Saffron, Tourn sel, Brasel, Saun∣ders, or other what ye shall see good. This must be done be∣fore the Spring do come: Some do say, if ye graffe on the O••ive stock, or on the Ald••r stock, they will bring red Ap∣ples. Also they say, to graffe to have fruit without core, ye shall graffe in both the ends of your Cion into the stock, and when they be fast grown to the stock, ye shall cut it in the middest, and let the smaller and grow upward, or else take a Cion, and graffe the small end of the stock downward, and so shall ye have your Apple-tree on St. Lamberts day, (which is the xvii. of September) they shall never waste, consume, nor wax dry, which I doubt.