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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

It is also good graffing in the increase of the Moone but the sooner after the change the better To graffe the Quine Apple IF ye graffe the Quine Apple upon an Apple-stock he will not long continue without the Canker and if you graffe him on a knotty young crab-stock he shall endure long without the Canker To destroy Pismires or Ants about a Tree TO destroy Emets or Auts which be about a Tree if ye remove and stir the earth about the root of the said Tree then put thereon all about a great quantity of the foote of a Chimny and the Ants and Pismires will either be gone or shortly die Another for the same TO destroy Ants another way take of the Saw-dust of Oake wood onely and strew that about the Trees root and the next raine that falleth all the Pismires and Ants shall die there For Earewigs shoes stopt with Hay and hanged on the Tree one night they come all in To have Nuts Plums and Almonds greater than other To have great Nuts and Plums and Almonds greater than others ye shall take four Nuts or of any of this fruit abovesaid and put them into a pot of earth joyning the one to the other as nere as you can then make a hole in the bottom of the pot through the which holes these Nuts shall be constrained to issue and being so constrained for to issue shall come to perfection and grow together as in one Tree Which in time shall bring his fruit greater and arger then others To make an Oake or other Tree as green in Winter as in Summer ALso to make an Oake or other Tree to be green aswel in Winter as in Summer ye shall take the graffe of an Oke tree or other Tree and graffe it upon the Holly tree the best and surest way is to graffe one through the other and who so will make an Orchard he ought if he can to make it in a moist place whereas the South winds or Sea winds may have recourse unto them The time of Planting with Roots and without Roots ALso the best time to plant or set without roots as with branches or stevering● of all sorts of Trees which hath a pith as Fig-trees Hazel-trees Mulberry-trees and Vines with other like trees which ought to be set from the middest of September if the leaves be off until Alhallontide and all others Trees with roots ought to be set in Advent untill Christmas or presently after if the time be not very cold and dangerous To keep fruit from the Frost ALso to keep fruit from the Frost and in good colour till the new come again ye ought so to gather them when the time is faire and dry and the Moon in her decreasing that they lye also in dry places by night covered thinn with wheat straw and if the time of winter be cold and very hard then put Hay above them in your straw and take it away when as a fair time cometh and thus ye shall keep your fruit faire and good The dayes to plant and graffe ALso as some say from the first day of the new Moon unto the xiii day thereof is good to plant or graffe or sow and for great need some take unto the xvii or xviii day thereof and not after either graffe or sow but as is afore mentioned a day or two dayes before the change the best signes are Taurus Virgo and Capricorne To have green Roses all the year FOr to have green Roses ye shall as some say take your Rose buds in the Spring time and then graffe them upon the Holly-stock and they shall be green all the year To keep Raisons or Grapes good a year FOr to keep Raisons or Grapes good a whole yeare ye shall take of fine dried sand and then lay your Raisons or grapes therein and it shall keep them good a whole year Some keep them in a close Glasse from the ayre To make fruit laxative from the Tree FOr to make any fruit laxative from the Tree what fruit soever it be make a hole in the stock or in the master-root of the Tree with a piercer slope-wise not through but unto the pith or somewhat further then fill the said hole with the juyce of Elder Centory Senith or Turbith or such like laxatives then fill the said holes therewith of which of them ye will or else you may take three of them together and fill the said hole therewith and then stop the said hole close with soft wax then lay it thereon and put mosse all over so that nothing may fall out and for ever after the fruit of the Tree shall be laxative A Note for all grafters and Planters ALso whensoever ye shall plant or graffe it shall be meet and good for you to say as followeth In the name of God the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost Amen Increase and multiply and replenish the earth and say the Lords Prayer then say Lord God heare my Prayer let this my desire be heard of thee The holy Spirit of God which hath created all things for Man and hath given them for our comfort in thy name O LORD we set plant and graffe desiring that by thy mighty power they may increase multiply upon the earth in bearing plenty of fruit unto the profit and comfort of all the faithfull people through Christ our Lord Amen * ⁎ * Here followeth certain waies of Planting or Graffing with other necessaries herein meet to be known Translated out of Dutch by L. M. To graffe one Vine upon another YOu that will graffe one Vine upon another ye shall in January cleave the head of the Vines as ye doe other stocks and then put in your Vine Graffe or Cion but first you must pare him thin ere ye set him in the head then clay and mosse him as the other Chosen dayes to graffe in and choose your Cions ALso whensoever that ye will graffe your choicest time will be on the last day before the change and also in the Change as also upon the second day after the change if ye graffe as some report on the third fourth or fifth day after the change it will be many years ere those trees bring forth fruit Ye may believe it but I will not Some think it is good graffing from the change unto the xviii day thereof this I think good the Moon increasing the sooner the better To gather your Cions ALso such Cions or Graffs which you get on other trees the young Trees of three four five or six years growth are best to take graffs Take them of no under boughs but in the top on the East side if ye can and the fairest and greatest Ye shall cut them two inches long of the old wood beneath the joynt And when you graff cut them taper-wise from the joynt two inches or more of length which set into the stock and before you set it in open your stock with a wedg of Iron or