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 fifth way.

When you pierce a willow stick with a sharp pler∣cer, see that between every hole, be left the space of one foot, and prick therein branches a little scra∣ped, and put the stick into a ditch, so that the bran∣ches stand upright, one part of the stick remaining o∣ver the earth; and within a year after take it out of the ditch, and cut the stick asunder, so find you the bran∣ches full of roots, and put every one into a hole in the ground, and 'tis fit the holes were stopped with lome, or with wax.

Some do take in March a fresh Beech tree, which is of a mans thicknesse, and pierce him overthwart with maine and great holes and small holes, till unto the lowermost barke, or quite through: then take sprouts or boughes, which be as big and small, that they may fit into the holes; and when you will put them into the Beech stump, you must scrape the up∣permost barke off, untill the green, and no further: then the bough must remain into the Beech, the sprouts must stand a foot, or somwhat lesse asunder, then keep your Beech stumps with the sprouts in a fresh ground, and skant a soot deep, you must first maime the sprouts, that they may not flourish; then the next March ensuing, dig it out with the sprouts, and cut it a sunder with a saw, and every block which is cut off with its branch, you must set in a fresh ground, and so they will bring forth the fruit the same yeare.