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 fourth way of grafting is,

HOw buds are transported and bound upon ano∣ther tree, like as a plaister is tied to a mans body: this sort of grafting, is called in Latine Emplastrum. We read of such a sort of grafting which is called in Latine Abducellum, and it is much like unto this sort, wherefore we will only speake of it, being done after this sort.

When you see upon a great fruitfull bough, a bud which will prosper without doubt, and wouldst faine plant it upon another tree, take a sharp knife, and lift the bark up two fingers breadth, that the bud be not hurt, then goe to another tree, upon the which you will graft, and put into a convenient place, a like hole into the bark, and put the same bud with the bark in∣to it, and tie it with dung (or with a clout that hath lien in a dunghill) over the cut, that it may be kept from the outward damage of weather, and for an e∣speciall nourishment and keeping of the inner juice: then cut off the branches round about it, that the mo∣ther may the better nourish the new sonne; within twenty days after take away the band, so that you see that the strange bud hath prospered, and joyned him∣selfe with the tree. This may be done in March, when the bark cometh easily from the tree. Also in April, May, and Iune, and yet shee prospereth both before and after a time, when you may conveniently finde such buds.

This sort of planting prospereth best in a willow tree or such like, which is pierced through, and is done after this sort.