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.

How to order and dresse your Hills.

AFfter the first year is past, your Hop being increased to more plenty of roots in your Hills, ye shall after Micha∣el••masse every year open your Hills, and cast down the tops unto the roots, uncovering them, and cut away all the super∣fluous roots, some do pluck away all the roots that spread abroad about the Hills, then opens the Hills, and puts good new earth unto them, and so cover them again, which shall keep them from the Frost, and also make the Ground fat, so shall ye let them remain unto the Spring of the year in February or March, then again if ye shall see any super∣fluous roots, ye may take them away and cut them up, and your Hop shall be the better, then again cast up the earth about your Hills, and cleansing them from all weeds and other roots, which will take away their strength, if the herbs remain, so let them rest till your Poles may be set therein,