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.

A note of the rest abovesaid.

YE shall mark and understand, all this order abovesaid is to have many Hops and good, with a few roots and Plants placed in a small plot of ground. Ye shall understand, that wild Hops, which grow in the hedges, is as good to oc∣cupie as the other to set or Plant in any other places, but look

that ye take not the barren Hop to Plant, some Hop will be barren for want of good earth, and lack of good dressing, which ye shall perceive (as I have told you) in the Summer before, that when they should bear, they will be barren, which is for want of good fat earth, or an unkind year, or lack of weeding and good ordering. Therefore such as are minded to bestow labour on the Ground, may have as good Hop growing in this Countrey, as in other Countreys: but if ye will not go to that cost to make Hop-yards, ye may with a light charge have Hops grow in your Hedge-rows, to serve as well as the other, and shall be as good for the quantity as the other in all respects: ye may (for lack of ground plant Hop roots in hedge-rows, when you do quick-set, set up poles by them, when time shall require in the Spring, and bestow every Winter after the gathering your Hop, on every hill head a shovel-full of Dung to comfort the earth, for then they will bear the more plenty of Hops the next year following. To conclude, you that have Grounds may well practise in all things afore mentioned, and specially to have Hops in this ordering for your selves, and others: also ye shall give encouragement for others to follow hereafter, I have heard by credible persons which have known a hun∣dred Hills, (which is a small plat of ground) to bear three hundred pounds of Hops, so that the commodity is much, and the gains great: and one pound of our Hops dryed and ordered, will go as far as two po••nd ••f the best Hops that cometh from beyond the Seas. Thus much I thought meet and necessary to write, of the ordering and planting of the Hop.