Of the scituation.
IT were good to place your Garden, so as the Sun may have free recourse into it, either the whole day, or the greatest &
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.
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- 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.
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- Barker, Thomas, fl. 1651.
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- London, :: Printed by T. Mabb, for William Shears, and are to be sold at the signe of the Bible in St. Pauls Church-yard, near the little north door,
- 1654.
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- Gardening -- England -- Early works to 1800.
- Planting (Plant culture) -- England -- Early works to 1800.
- Hops -- England -- Early works to 1800.
- Fishing -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A74931.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 1, 2024.
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warmest part thereof, so also as it may be armed against the violence and contagion of the wind; but this I could wish to be considered rather in the scituation of the place, natu∣rally defended with hills, then artificially to be set and guar∣d••d with Trees. Howbeit if you be driven hereunto, provide so (if you can) that your Trees may stand aloof, even that the shadow of them, reach not into your Garden, but in any wise that they drop not upon the hills.
There be many which (to purchase the favour and benefit of the Sun) lay their Gardens very open and bleak to the South, the which I would not wish to be done, for as the fore∣part of the year admitteth into your Garden the cold Ea∣sterly winds, whereby insues Frosts, the which ingenders Blasts, &c. So the latter part of the year maketh it subject to Southerly stormes, which do much annoy an Hop-Garden when the Poles are loaden with Hops, and then commonly no other wind hurteth.
It should also be placed near to your house, except you be able to warrant the fruit thereof from such fingers, as put no difference between their own, and other mens goods.
Also your Garden being thus placed, there may be made thereunto the more sp••edy and continuall recourse, besides that the Masters eye doth m••ny times withstand and pre∣vent the Servants negligence.
By this means it may be with most ease and least charge holpen with Dung.
Finally (if it may be) let it not stand bleak to the East, West, North, or specially to the South.