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.

Excellent inventions and helps against the Garden. Moles.

THe skilfull Paxanus hath left in writing, that if the Gardener should make hollow a big nut, or bore a hollow hole into some sound piece of wood being narrow, in filling the one or the other with Rosin, Pitch, Chaffe and Brimstone, of each so much as shall suffice to the filling of the Nut, or hollow hole in the wood, which thus prepared in a readi∣nesse, stop every where with diligence, all the goings Forth, and breathing holes of the Mole, that by those the fuming smoke in no manner may issue out, yet

so handle the matter, that one mouth and hole bee only left open, and the same so large, that well the nut or vessell kindled within, may be laid within the mouth of it, whereby it may take the wind of the one side, which may so send in the savour both of the ro∣sin and brimstone into the hollow tombe, or resting place of the Mole; by the same practise so worke∣manly handled, by filling the holes with the smoak, shall the owner or Gardener either drive quite away all the Moles in the ground, or finde them in a short time dead.

There be some that take the white Neesewort, or the rinde of Cynocrambes beaten and farced, and with Barley meale and egs finely tempered together, they make both Cakes and Pasties wrought with wine and milk, and those they lay within the Moles den or hole.

Albertus of worthy memory reporteth, that if the owner or Gardener closeth or diligently stoppeth the mouths of the Moleholes, with the garlicke, ony∣on, or leek, it shall either drive the Moles away, or kil them through the strong savour stinking or brea∣thing into them.

Many there be, that to drive away these harmfull Moles, doe bring up young Cats in their Garden ground, and make tame Weasels, to the end, that ei∣ther of these through the hunting of them, may so drive away this pestiferous anoyance, being taught to watch at their strait passages, and mouths of the holes comming forth.

Others there be also, which diligently fill and stop up their holes with the red Okare or Ruddell, and juice of the wild Cucumber, or sow the seeds of

Palma Christi, being a kind of Satyrion, in beds, through which they will not after cast up, nor tarry thereabout.

But some exercise this easie practise, in taking a live Mole, and burning the pouder of brimstone a∣bout him, being in a deep earthen pot, through which he is procured to cry, all others in the meane time as they report, are moved to resort thither.

There are some besides, which lay silke snares at the mouth of their holes.

To the simple Husbandmen may this easie pra∣ctise of no cost suffice, in setting downe into the earth, a stiffe rod or green branch of the Elder tree.