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 Furnace or Keel.

THe Floore or nether part of your furnace must be about thirteen inches wide.

The depth or height thereof must be thirty inches.

The length of it must be about six or seven foot (that is to say) reaching from the fore part of the Oste almost to the further end thereof, so as there be left no more room but as a man may passe between the wall and the end of it.

It must be made wide below, and narrow above, fashioned in outward shape somewhat like to the roof of an house.

It must have three rows of holes at each side, the length of one Brick asunder, and the bignesse of half a Brick, placed checkerwise. Before you begin to make your holes, you should lay two rows of Brick, and when your three ranks of holes are placed upon them, you must lay again over them ano∣ther row of Brick, and upon the same you must place your last and highest course, and they must stand longwise (as it were a tiptoe) the tops of the Bricks meeting together above (the nether part of them resting upon the uppermost course) and note that till then, each side must be built alongst direct∣ly upward.

You should leave almost a foot space between the mouth of your Furnace, and your rows of holes, especially of that row which is nethermost.

The further or hinder end of your Furnace, the which is opposite to the mouth thereof, must be built flat with an up∣right wall, and there must be holes also left as at the sides.

The Furnace in the top, (I mean from the upper course of holes) must be dawbed very well with morter.

And so upon the top of your Furnace there will remain a

gutter, (whereupon Flemmimgs use to bake Apples, &c.) and the highest part thereof will reach within two foot and lesse of the Oste.

Finally, it must be placed upon the ground in the middest of the lower Floore of the Oste, which Floor must be made

[illustration] diagram of the back of a furnace

The hinder most part or Fur∣ther end of the Furnace

[illustration] diagram of the side of a furnace

One side of the Furnace.

[illustration] diagram of the front of a furnace

The mouth and fore∣part of the Furnace.

very perfect, fine and levell, the reason whereof you shall per∣ceive in the Title of drying.