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.

Every Plant will have foure things.

First moistnesse, so that the seeds or stumpe bee moist or green.

Secondly, a convenient place, which hath such earth as will lightly be rubbed to pouder, and that Sun may come to it; for where there is filthy lome, a lean ground, or sandy, dry, burnt, or salt ground, there is nothing good to be planted, to have any continuance; neverthelesse where the ground is lean, there you must give more dung; in a fat ground not so much. Take heed the ground be not too moist

nor too dry; and muck the trees with hogs dung.

Thirdly, a mediate water or nourishing moistness, therefore be those Orchards best which are scituated between two waters; for those that are placed by a water side, remaine still young and fruitfull, and have commonly the bark smoother and thinner than the others. And those trees are more fruitful then others which are planted in a vally, or in the lower part of a deep hill; for from those hils may come to them nourishment and moistness, and the ground which is so scituated is very fruitfull. But he that cannot get for his trees such a ground, must with all diligence seek to bring to his trees a little spring or pond, of which the trees may sometimes find some reviving, and if you may not have any of those, and have a gar∣den who by it selfe is naught, the trees wil grow with thick roots, which hindereth the growing of them, and drieth them at length.

Fourthly, the air is required, which must be agree∣able to them, and of complexion to bear; for there be some trees that doe prosper in all aires, to wit, apple, and peare, cherry and plum-trees. Some will have a cold air, to wit, chesnut-trees; and some a very warm aire, as the palme and pepper trees: therefore they be rare with us. That plant which hath these four things shall prosper: and if they want one or more of these four things, they will decay and their prospe∣ring perish.