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.

Of setting of Hop-roots.

HAving made your provision of roots in this wise, return therewith to your Garden speedily, and either set them immediately, or lay them in some Puddle near thereunto, or bury them in the ground untill conveniency or winde, wea∣ther, and leisure (the want whereof may sometimes prevent good expedition) shall serve. Provided alwaies that you leave them not in water puddle above xxiv. hours, but in the earth you may leave them as long as the time of setting endureth, that is to say, till the middest of Aprill.

Your Garden being dressed, as before I advised you, it shall be easie for you to direct your hils aright, and that in equall distance with a Pole, or rather with a line (that will not stretch) tying thereupon short threds, or placing in it pins, according to the proportion of space which you mean to leave between your hils, whereof if one be placed out of order, it shall blemish and hurt a great part of your Garden.