THus have you a brief and short Description of the Platform of a Hop-Garden: what ground is fit for them, as also the Scituation thereof, with the Proportion of ground a man may employ about Hops, which may either
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 17, 2024.
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be according to his own expending in his own private Fa∣mily, or else according to the charge which he intendeth to bestow about it, either of which will be well recompensed, if Gods blessing go along with the pains and industry of the Husbandman: for whose direction in the managing of his work, this small Treatise was compiled: for besides the Platform, fitnesse or unfitnesse of the Ground, &c. here. in you may learn how to choose, and set your Roots: the distance of the Hills one from another; the number of Hop-poles, which you are to set about each hills: in con∣clusion your Hops being come to perfection, the manner of gathering, drying and packing them up that they may con∣tinue long, and keep sweet. No man ever wrote more ful∣ly concerning the ordering of Hops from the first setting them into the Ground, untill the drying, and laying them up for store, than this Authour hath done, none with more brevity.
The Husbandmans due observation of these Directions is required, and without question he cannot fall short of his expectation.