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 the preservation of Poles.

ANd although ye are not come to the laying up of Poles, I am bold herein, as I began too late, so to make an end too quickly, because I would touch the whole matter of Poles to••ether, laying them by themselves, (I mean) com∣prehending under one Title, the businesse pertaining unto them.

For the preservation and better continuance of Poles, some make houses of purpose, and lay them up therein.

Some set them upright to a Tree, and over them make a penthouse of boughs or boords.

Some lay a great heap of Hop-stalks upon the Ground, and upon them a great heap of Pol••s, and upon the Poles a∣gain lay another heap of stalks, &c.

These men hereby do ex••resse no great experience, although by their diligence they signifie a good desire.

You shall need to do no more but thus. At the ends or sides of your Garden, take three Poles standing upon three Hills, placed directly one by another, and three like Poles upon three other hills of the next row right over against them, con∣strain them to meet together by two, and two in the tops, and so hold them, till one with a forked wand put three withs (lik unto three Broom bands, which may be made of the stalks of Hops) upon each couple of the said six Poles, so shall the same six Poles being so bound by two and two to∣gether, stand like the roof or rafters of an house.

To keep the Poles that shall lye nether most from rotting by the moistnesse of the ground: within the compasse of your said six hills, underneath the Poles that you have fa∣stened

together in the tops,) raise three little banks crosse or thwart from hill to hill, as though you would make your six hills to be but three.

Upon those banks lay a few Hop-stalks, and upon them your Poles, observing that one stand at one end of the room, and another at the other end, ordering the matter so, as the tops of the Poles lie not all one way, but may be equally and orderly divided: otherwise one end of the room would be full before the other, whereas now they will lye even and sharp above like an hay-stack, or the ridge of an house, and sufficiently defend themselves from the weather.

If you think that you have not Poles enough to fill the room, pull down the withs or bands lower, and your room will be lesse, and do this before you lay in your Poles.