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A74931	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.	Barker, Thomas, fl. 1651.; Barker, Thomas, fl. 1651.	1654 (1654)	Thomason E806_16; ESTC R207486	120,559	229

sport at we call it doping A Lord lately sent to me at Sun going down to provide him a good dish of Trouts against the next morning by six of the Clock I went to the door to see how the wains of the Aire were like to prove and returned answer that I doubted not but to be provided God willing at my time appointed I went presently to the River and it proved very dark I drew out a Line of three silkes and three hairs twisted for the uppermost part and a Line of two silks and two hairs twisted for the lowermost part with a good large hook I baited my hook with two Lob-worms the four ends hanging as meet as I could ghesse them in the dark I fell to Angle it proved very dark that I had good sport Angling with the Lob-worms as I doe with the Flie at the top of the water you shall heare the Fish rise at the top of the water then you must loose a slack Line down to the bottome as nigh as you can ghesse then hold a straight Line feeling the Fish bite give time there is no doubt of losing the Fish for there is not one among twenty but doth gorge the Bait the least stroak you can strike to fasten the hook makes the fish sure and then you may take the fish up with your hands The night began to alter and grew somewhat lighter I took off the Lob-worms and set to my Rod a white Palmer Flie made of a large hook I had sport for the time till it grew lighter then I put on my red Palmer I had sport for the time untill it grew very light then I set on my black Palmer had good sport made up my dish of fish put up my Ta●●ies 〈…〉 at my time appointed for the service For these 〈◊〉 Flies with the help of the Lob-worms serve to Angle all the year long observing the times as I have shewed in this nights work a light Flie for darknes the red Flie in medio and a dark Flie for lightnesse This is my experiment for this kind of Angling which is the surest Angling of all and killeth the greatest Fish your Lines may be strong but must be no longer then the Rod. To take a Carp either in Pond or River if you mean to have sport with some profit you must take a peck of Ale-graines and a good quantity of any bloud and mix the bloud and graines together and cast it in the places where you meane to Angle this feed will gather the seale Fish together as Carp Tench Roach Dace and Bream the next morning be at your sport very early plum your ground you may Angle for the Carp with a strong Line the Bait must be either a red knotted worm or Paste there is no doubt of sport To take Pearch The Pearch feeds well if you light where they be and bites very free My opinion is with some experience to bait with Lob-worms chopt in pieces over night so come in the morning betimes plum your ground gage your line bait your hook with a red knotted worme but I hold a Menow better put the hook in at the back of the Menow betwixt the fish and the skin that the Menow may swim up and down alive being boyed up with a Cork or Quill that the Menow may have liberty to swimme a foot off the the ground there is no doubt of sport with profit I will shew a little my opinion of floating for scale Fish in the River or Pond The feed brings the Fish together as the sheep to the Pen There is nothing better in all your Anglings for feed then Bloud and Grains I hold it better then Paste then plumming your ground Angling with fine Tackles as single haire for halfe the Line next the hook round and small plumed according to your float For the Bait there is a small red worm with a yellow tip on his taile is very good Brandlins Gentles Paste or Cadice which we call Cod-bait they lye in a gravelly husk under stones in the River these be the speciall Baits for these kinde of Fish One of my name was the best Trouler for a Pike in this Realme he laid a wager that he would take a Pike of four footlong of Fish within the space of one Moneth with his Trouling-Rod so he Trouled three weeks and odde dayes and took many great Pikes nigh the length but did not reach the full length till within the space of three dayes of the time then he took one and won the wager The manner of his Trouling was with a Hazell Rod of twelve foot long with a Ring of Wyre in the the top of his Rod for his Line to runne thorow within two foot of the bottome of the Rod there was a hole made for to put in a winde to turne with a barrell to gather up his Line and loose at his pleasure this was his manner of Trouling But I will pawn my credit that I will shew a way either in Maior Pond or River that shall take more Pikes than any Trouler with his Rod And thus it is First take forked stick a Line of twelve yards long wound upon it at the upper end leave about a yard either to tye a bunch of Sags or a Bladder to Boy up the Fish and to carry it from the ground the Bait must be a live Fish either Dace or Gudgin or Roach or a small Trout the forked stick must have a slit in the one side of the fork to put in the Line that you may set your live Fish to swimme at a gage that when the Pike taketh the Bait he may have the full liberty of the Line for his feed You may turne these loose either in Pond or River in the Pond with the winde all day long the more the better at night set some small weight as may stay the Boy as a Ship lyeth at Anchor till the Fish taketh For the River you must turne all loose with the streame two or three be sufficient to shew pleasure gaged at such a depth as they will go currant downe the River there is no doubt of sport if there be Pikes for the hooks they must be doubled hooks the shanks should be somewhat shorter then ordinary my reason is the shorter the hook is of the shank it will hurt the live Fish the lesse and must be armed with small wyre well softned but I hold a hook armed with twisted silk to be better for it will hurt the live Fish least If you arm your hook with wyre the neeld must be made with a small hook at the one end thereof If you arme with silke the neeld must be made with an eye then must you take one of those Baits alive which you can get and with one of your neelds enter within a strawes breadth of the Gill of the Fish so put the neeld betwixt the skin and the Fish then pull the neeld out at the hindmost finne and

with the old wood and choose a better and fair place at some other eye in the same graffe and to make your incision thereunder as aforsaid and cut your graffs in making the incision on the one side narrow and on the other side broad and the inner side thinn and the outside thick because the outside of your graff must joyn within the cleft with the sappe of Barke of the wild and it shall so be s●t in See also that ye cut it smooth as your clefts are in the Stock in joyning at every place both even and close and especially the joynts or corners of the graffes on the head of the stocke which must be well and clean pared before and then set fast thereon How to cut graffes for Cherries and Plums IT is not much requisite in the helme Cherry for to joyn the Graffes in the stock wholly throughout as it is in others or to cut the graffes of great Cherries Damsons or Plums so thin and plaine as ye may other graffes for these sorts have a greater sappe or pith within the which ye must always take heed in cutting it too nigh on the one side or one the other but at the end thereof chiefly to be thin cut and flat Note also ANd yet if the said incision be straighter and closer on the one side than it is on the other side pare it where it is most meet and where it is too straight open it with a wedge of Iron and put in a wedge of the same wood above in the cleft and thus may ye moderate your graffes as ye shall see cause How in graffing to take heed that the Bark rise not IN all kind of cutting your gr●ffes take heed to the bark of your graffes that it doe not rise from the wood on no side thereof and specially on the outside therefore ye shall leave it thicker than the inner side Also ye must take heed when as the stocks doe wreath in cleaving that ye may joyn the graffe therein accordingly The best remedy ther●fore is to cut it smooth within that the graffe may joyn the better ye shall also for the greatest stocks make choice of the greatest Graffes How to cut your Stock HOw much the more your stock is thin and slender so much more ye ought to cut him lower and if your stock be as great as your finger or thereabouts ye may cut him a foot or half a foot from the earth and dig him about and dung him with Goats dung to help withall and graffe him but with one graffe or Cion If the wild Stock be great and slender IF your wild stock be great or as big as a good staffe ye shall cut him round off a foot or there-abouts above the earth then set in two good graffs in the head or cleft thereof Trees as great as ones Arme. BUt when your stock is as great as your arme ye shall saw him cl●an off and round three or four foot or thereaabouts from the earth for to defend him and set in the head three graffes two in the cleft and one betwixt the bark and the Tree on that side which ye have most space Great Trees as big as your Leg. IF the stock be as big as your legge or thereabouts ye shall saw him f●ir and clean off four or five foot high from the earth and cleave him acrosse if ye will and set in four graffes in the clefts thereof or else one cleft onely and set two graffes in both the sides thereof and other two graffes betwixt the bark and the Tree When the Graffes be pinched with the Stock YE must for the better understanding marke to graffe between the bark and the Tree for when the sappe is full in the wood or wild Stocks being great they doe commonly pinch or wring the graffes too sore if ye doe not put a small wedge of green wood in the cleft thereof to help them withall against such danger How ye ought to cleave your Stock WHensoev●r you shall cleave your wild Stocks take h●ed that ye cleave them not in the midst of the heart or pith but a little on that si●e which ye shall think good How to graffe the branch of great Trees IF ye would graft Trees as big as your thigh or bigger it were much better to graffe onely the branch●s thereof than the stock or body for the stock will ●ot before the graffes shall cover the head How to cut Branches old and great BUt if the Branches be too rude and without order the best shall be to cut them all off and within three or four years after they will bring fair young Cions againe and then it shall be best to graffe them and cut off all the superfluous and ill branches thereof How ye ought to bind your Graffes throughout for fear of windss ANd when your graffes shall be grown ye must binde them for feare of shaking of the wind and if the Tree be free and good of himself let the Cions grow still and ye may graffe any part or branch ye will in the cleft or betwixt the bark a●d the Tree or in the Scutchion if your bark be fair and loose To set many graffes in one cleft EVer when ye wi●l put many graffes in one cleft see that one incision of your graffe be as large as the other not to be put into the cleft so slightly and rashly and that one side thereof be not more open than the other and that these graffes be all of one length it shall suffice also if they have three eyes on each graffe without the joynt thereof How to saw your stock before you leave him IN sawing your stock see that you teare not the barke about the head thereof then cleave his head with a long sharpe knife or such like and knock your wedge in the middest thereof then pare him on the head round about and knock your wedge in so deep till it open meet for your graffes but not so wide then holding in one hand your graffe and in the other hand your stock set your graffe in close bark to bark let your wedge be greater above at the head that ye may knock him out fair and easily again If the Stock cleave too much or the bark doe open IF the Stock doe cleave too much or open the bark with the wood too low then softly open your stock with your wedge and see if the incision of your graffe be meet and just according to the cleft if not make it untill it be meet or else saw him off lower How Graffes never lightly take ABove all things you must consider the meeting of the two saps betwixt the graffe and the wild stock which must be set in just one with another for ye shall understand if they doe not joyn and the one delight with the other being even set they shall never take together for there is nothing onely to joyn their increase but the

sap recounting the one against the other How to set the Graffes right in the cleft WHen the bark of the Stock is more thick than the graff ye must take good heed in setting of the graffe in the cleft to the end that his sappe may joyn right with the sap of the stock on the in-side and ye ought likewise to consider of the sappe of the stock if he doe surmount the graffes in the out-sides of the cleft too much or not Of setting in the Graffes ALso ye must take good heed that the graffes be well and clean set in and joyn close upon the head of the stock Likewise then the incision which is set in the cleft do joyn very well within on both sides not to joyn so even but sometimes it may do service when as the graffes doe draw too much from the Stock or the stock also on the graffes doe put forth Note also ANd therefore when the stock is rightly cloven there is no danger in cutting the incision of the graffe but a little straight rebated at the end thereof that the sap may joyn one with the other better and closer together How you ought to draw out your wedge VVHen your graffes shall be well joyned with your stock draw your wedge fair and so●tly forth for fear o● dis●lacing your graffes ye may leave within the cleft a small wedge of such green wood as is aforesaid and ye shall cut it off close by the head of your stock and so cover it with a barke as followeth To cover your clefts on the head VVHen your wedge is dr●wn forth put a green pill of the thick bark of Willow Crab or Apple upon the clefts of the stock that nothing m●y fall between then cover all about the clefts on the stock head two fingers thick with good clay or nigh about that thicknesse that no Wind or Rain may enter then cover it round with moss and then wreath it over with clothes pills of Willow Bryar or Oziars or such like then bind them fast and stick certain long pricks on the graffes head amongst the Cions to keep off the Crows Jayes or such like How you ought to see to the binding of your Graffes BUt all way●s take good heed to the binding of your heads that they wax slack or shaggie neither on the one side or one the other but remain fast upon the clay the clay to remaine fast likewise on ●he stock h●ad under the binding thereof wherefore the said clay must be moderated in such sort as followeth How ye ought to temper your clay THe best way is therefore to try your clay betwixt your hands for stones and such like and so to temper it as ye shall think good as it shall ●equire moistnesse or driness and to temper it with the hair of beasts for when it drieth it holdeth not so well on the stock or knead Mosse therewith or mingle Hay thin therewith Some conceit that the Mosse doth make the Trees mossie But I rather suppose it is occasioned by the disposition of the place To bush your graffe heads VVHen ye shall bind or wrap your graffe heads with you band take small Thornes and bind them within for to defend your Graffes from Kites or Crows or other danger of other Fowles or prick sharp white stickes thereon The second way to graffe high Branches on Trees THe second manner to graffe is strange enough unto many This kind of Graffing is on the tops of branches of Trees which thing to make them grow lightly is not so soone obtained certaine it is that wheresoever they be graffed they doe onely require a faire young wood as also a great Cion or twig growing highest on the top of the Tree which Cions ye shall choose to graffe on of many sorts of Fruits if ye will or as ye shall think good which order followeth TAke graffs of other sorts of trees which ye would graff in the top thereof then mount to the top of the tree which you would graff and cut off the tops of all such branches or as many as ye would graffe on and if they be greater than the graffes which ye would graffe ye shall cut and graffe them lower as ye doe the small wild stock aforesaid But if the Cions that ye cut be as big as your graffe you graffe on ye shall cut them lower betwixt the old wood and the new or a little higher or lower then cleave a little and choose your graffes in like sort which you would plant whereof you shall make your incision short with the barke on both sides alike and to be as thick on the one side as it is on the other and also set so just in cleft that the bark may be even and close aswel above as beneath on the one side as the other and so bind them as is aforesaid It shall suffice that every graft have an oylet or eye or two at the most without the joynt for to leave them too long it shall not be good and ye must dresse it with Clay and Mosse and bind as it is aforesaid And likewise ye may graffe these as ye doe little wild Stocks which should be as big as your graffes and to graffe them as you doe those with sap like on both sides but then you must graffe them in the earth three fingers of or thereabouts The manner of Graffing is of Graffes which may be set between the Bark and the Tree To graffe betwixt the bark and the Tree THis manner of graffing is good when Trees doe begin to enter into their sap which is about the end of Februry unto the end of April and specially on great wild stockes which be hard to cleave ye may set in four or five graffes in the head thereof which graffes ought to be gathered afore and kept close in the earth till then for by that time aforesaid ye shall shall scantly find a Tree but that he doth put forth or bud as the Apple called Capendu or such like Ye must therefore saw these wild stocks more charily and more high so they be great and then cut the Graffes which ye would set together so as you would set them upon the wild stock that is cleft as is before rehearsed And the incision of your graffs must not be so long and so thick and the bark a little at the end thereof must be taken away and made in a manner as a Launcet of Iron and as thick on the one side as the other How to dresse the head to place the Graffes betwixt the Bark and the Tree ANd when your graffes be ready cut then shall you clense the head of your stock and pare it with a sharpe knife round about the barke thereof to the end your graffes may joyn the better thereon then take a sharp penknife or other sharp pointed knife and thrust it down betwixt the barke and the stock so long as the incision of graffes be