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 time of gathering it for your use.

THe store that you intend to keep for your use by you, must be gathered before that it either flowreth or seed∣eth, and therefore I conceive your best time woud be about the middle of June, for then it is in its full strength, and having gather'd it, you may not leave it in the Sun to dry, but as Colesfoot is ordered in drying, so may you order your Tabaco, and be sure that each leaf be through dry before you put them together, for fear lest they should grow musty, and by that means made uselesse, and to prevent this, your wi∣sest course will be to let them hang severally by themselves, as at first, onely you may, if you please, remove them from the drying place in Winter into some warmer place, because though in the Summer, it lying open to the aire, it was be∣neficiall to you, it may in the Winter prove as prejudi∣ciall.