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 tying Hops to the Poles.

WHen your Hops are grown about one or two foot high, bind up (with a Rush or Grasse) such as decline from the Poles, winding them as often ye can about the said Poles, and directing them alwayes according to the course of the Sun, but if your leisure may serve (to do at any o∣ther time of the day) do it not in the morning when the dew remaineth upon them.

If you lay soft green Rushes abroad in the dew and the Sun, within two or three dayes, they will be lithi, tough, and handsome for this purpose of tying, which may not be foreslowed, for it is most certain that the Hop, that lyeth long upon the ground before he be tyed to the Pole, prosp••reth nothing so well, as it which sooner attaineth thereunto.