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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19451	The country-mans recreation, or the art of planting, graffing, and gardening in three bookes. The first declaring divers wayes of planting, and graffing ... also how to cleanse your grafts and cions, how to helpe barren and sicke trees, how to kill wormes and vermin and to preserve and keepe fruit, how to plant and proyne your vines, and to gather and presse your grape ... how to make your cider and perry ... The second treateth of the hop-garden, with necessary instructions for the making and the maintenance thereof ... Whereunto is added, the expert gardener, containing divers necessary and rare secrets belonging to that art ...	Mascall, Leonard, d. 1589. Booke of the arte and maner, howe to plant and graffe all sortes of trees. aut; Scot, Reginald, 1538?-1599. Perfite platforme of a hoppe garden. aut	1640 (1640)	STC 5874; ESTC S108874	101,331	202

THE Country-mans Recreation or the Art of Planting Graffing and Gardening in three Bookes The first declaring divers wayes of Planting and Graffing and the best times of the Yeare with divers Commodities and secrets herein how to Set or Plant with the Roote and without the Roote how to sow or set Pepins or Curnels with the ordering thereof also how to cleanse your Grafts and Cions how to helpe barren and sicke Trees how to kill Wormes and Vermin and to preserve and keepe Fruit how to plant and proyne your Vines and to gather and presse your Grape how to clense and Mosse your Trees how to make your Cider and Perry with many other secret Practises which shall appeare in the Table following The second treateth of the Hop-Garden with necessary Instructions for the making and the maintenance thereof as the Scituation quantity charge and benefit preparation time to cut and set with Rules for the choice and preparation of Rootes and also divers Instruments usefull for the Hop-Garden Whereunto is added The Expert Gardener containing divers necessary and rare Secrets belonging to that Art with Directions to know the time and season to sow and plant all manner of Seeds with divers new Inventions and Garden-knots and also present Remedies to destroy Snailes Canker-wormes Moths Garden-fleas Earth-wormes Moles and all other Vermin which commonly breed in Gardens LONDON Printed by B. ALLSOP and T. FAVVCET for MICHAEL YOUNG and are to be sold at his Shop in Bedford-street in Coven-garden neere the New Exchange 1640. An Exhortation to the Planter and Graffer REgard alwayes before ye doe intend to plant or graffe it shall be meete to have good experience in things meet for this Art as in knowing the natures of all fruites and the differences of Climates which be contrary in every Land also to understand the East and West winds with Aspects and Starres to the end ye may begin nothing that the Wind or Raine may oppresse that your labour be not lost and to marke also and consider the dispositions of the Elements that present yeare for all yeares be not of like operation nor yer after one sort the Summer and Winter doe not beare one face on the Earth nor the Spring-time alwayes raine or Autumne alwayes moist of this none have understanding without a good and lively marking Spirit few or none without learning may discerne of the varieties and qualities of the earth and what he doth aske or refuse Therefore it shall be good to have understanding of the Ground where ye doe plant either Orchard or Garden with fruit first it behoveth to make a sure Defence to the end that not onely rude Persons and Children may be kept ou● but all kind of hurtfull Cattle endamaging your Plants or Trees as Oxen Kine Calves Horses Hogs and Sheepe as the rubbing of sheepe doth greatly burne the sap and often doth kill young Trees and Plants and where they are broken or bruised with Cattell it is doubtfull to grow after It shall be good also to Set Plant or Graffe Trees all of like nature and strength together that the great and high trees may not overcome the low and weake for when they be not like of height they grow no● ripe not your fruit so well at one time but the one before the other That earth which is good for Vines is good also for other fruit Ye must dig your holes a yeare before ye Plant that the earth may bee the better seasoned mortified and waxe tender both by Raine in Winter and heate on Summer that thereby your Plants may take root the sooner if ye will make your holes and plant both in a yeare at the least ye ought to make your holes two moneths before ye plant and as soone as they be made then it shall be good to burn straw or such l●ke therein to mak the● ground warme The further ye make them asunder the better your trees shall beare Make your holes like unto a furnace that is more straight in the mouth then beneath whereby the rootes may have the more roome and by straightnesse of the mouth the lesse rainer cold shall enter by in Winter and so lesse heate to the roote in Summer Looke also that the earth ye put to the rootes be neither wet no● laid in water they doe commonly leave a good space betwixt every tree for the hanging boughes for being nigh together ye cannot set rootes nor sow nothing so well under your trees nor they wil not beare fruit so well Some loveth forty foote some thirty betweene every tree your Plants ought to be greater then the handle of a shovell and the lesser the better See they be straight without knots or knobs having a long straight grain or barke which shall the sooner be apt to take Graffes and when ye set branches or boughes of old trees choose the straightest branch thereof and those trees which have borne yearely good fruit before take of those which be on the Sunny-side sooner than those that grow in the cover or shadow and when ye take up or alter your Plants ye shall note to what your plant is subject and so let them be set againe but those which have growne in dry Grounds let them be set in moyst Grounds your Plants ought to be cut of three foot long If ye will set two or three Plants together in a hole ye must take heed the roote of one touch not another for then the one will perish and rot the other or dye by Wormes of other Vermen and when yon have placed your Plants in the earth it shall be good to strike downe to the bottome of every hole two short stakes as great as your arme on either side your hole one and let them appeare but a little above the earth that ye may thereby in Summer give water unto the rootes if need be Your young Plants and rooted Trees are commonly set in Autumne from the first unto the fifteenth of October yet some opinion is better after Alhallontide untill Christmas then in the Spring because the earth will dye too soone after and also to set Plants without root after Michaelmasse that they may be the better mollified and gather roote against the Spring whereof ye shall find heereafter more at larger Thus much have I thought meete to declare unto the Planters Graffers and Gardeners whereby they may the better avoyd the occasions and dangers of Planting Graffing and Gardening which may come often times through ignorance A Table of all the principall things contained in this Booke Of the seaven Chapters following CHAP. I. Treateth of the setting of Curnels of Apple-trees Plum-trees Peare-trees and Service-trees HOw to choose your Pepins at the first pressing Meanes to use the Earth to sow your Pepins on Seeing unto the Poultry for marring your beds and how to weed or cleanse your beds or quarters Wilde Cions how to plucke them up CHAP. II. Treateth how to set your wilde Trees which come