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 quantity.

THe quantity of your Garden, must either be measured by the proportion of your yearly expences of Hops in your house, or by the cost you mean to bestow in the prepara∣tion and keeping thereof, or by the pains and businesse, that you are disposed, or able to employ upon it, or else ac∣cording to the profit and gains, that you mean to levie

and win by it, which later consideration pleaseth and flattereth much a covetous mans conceit, whose vein or hu∣mour, (or rather vain humour) is so resisted in the Rules ap∣pertaining hereunto, as many times the greedinesse of his de∣sire is the overthrow of his purpose, as shall hereafter appear.