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.

The nature of the Soyle that is required for the Sowing, Planting or Transplanting Tabaco.

THe most fruitfull and fertil soyle naturally, or by art so made, is most requisite for this purpose: if the Soyle be naturally fat and strong, regard likewise must be had of the scituation of the ground, whether in field or garden, that the place be not over-shadowed with Trees, whereby the Sunne may be hindered from yielding unto it its heat: neither must your Tabaco be planted or sowne in wide & large fields which lies open to all winds and wea∣thers, especially the North winds. And as unkindly blasts are a great enemy to the thriving of it on the one side, so on the other side, the want of the comfort of the heat of the Sunne will so chill it, that it will never come to perfection.

But if by Art: your ground must be well dunged and manured, which ought to be mixed and incorporated with the earth, that there may not be the least appearance of Dung. Moreover the Dung you so make use of must lie a long time rotting, if it be gathered out of the stable: Your best soyle therefore for present occasion is such as is taken up in the streets, or else Ashes sifted.

Your Hops and Tabaco will require the selfe manuring, and I am of opinion that such lands as they sow their Hempe in, must needs be fit for this purpose, because it is fat and mellow.