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Title: 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 ...
Print source: 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., Scot, Reginald, 1538?-1599.

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.
Alternate titles: Country-mans recreation Art of planting, graffing, and gardening.
Notes:
Book 1 is an anonymous reprint of "A booke of the art and maner, howe to plante and graffe all sortes of trees" by Leonard Mascall. Book 2 is an anonymous reprint of "A perfite platforme of a hoppe garden" by Reginald Scot, with separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous. Book 3 is a reissue of "The expert gardener: or, A treatise containing certaine necessary, secret, and ordinary knowledges in grafting and gardening" (STC 11562) with its original title page with imprint "London, printed by Richard Herne, 1640". This last work is an enlarged version of "A short instruction verie profitable and necessarie for all those that delight in gardening".
The expert gardener appears separately on UMI reel 1098.
Reproductions of the originals in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery and the Yale University Library.
Subject terms:
Gardening -- Early works to 1800.
Grafting -- Early works to 1800.
Hops -- Early works to 1800.
URL: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A19451.0001.001
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Table of Contents
THE COVNTRY-MANS Recreation, or the Art of Plan∣ting, Graffing, and Gardening.
CHAP. V. Treateth of foure manner of Graffings.
section begins with an illustration: a man grafting a tree Heere followeth certaine wayes of Planting and Graffing, with other necessaries heerein meete to be knowne.
Certaine common Instructions how the Stumpe must be chosen, whereupon you will graffe or plant.
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