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 ...
- 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 ...
- Publication
- 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.
- Rights/Permissions
-
This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. Searching, reading, printing, or downloading EEBO-TCP texts is reserved for the authorized users of these project partner institutions. Permission must be granted for subsequent distribution, in print or electronically, of this text, in whole or in part. Please contact project staff at eebotcp-info@umich.edu for further information or permissions.
- Subject terms
- Gardening -- Early works to 1800.
- Grafting -- Early works to 1800.
- Hops -- Early works to 1800.
- Link to this Item
-
https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A19451.0001.001
- Cite this Item
-
"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A19451.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- An Exhortation to the Planter and Graffer.
-
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. -
CHAP. II. Treateth how to set your wilde Trees which come of Pepins, when they be first pluckt up. -
CHAP. III. Is of the setting of Trees which come of Nuts. -
CHAP. IV. Sheweth how to set other Trees of great Cions prickt in the earth without Rootes, with the proyning of lesser Cions. -
CHAP. V. Treateth of foure manner of Graffings. -
CHAP. VI. Is of transplanting or altering the Trees. -
CHAP. VII. Is of Medicining and keeping the Trees, when theye Planted and Set.
-
-
THE COVNTRY-MANS Recreation, or the Art of Plan∣ting, Graffing, and Gardening.
-
CHAP. I. This Chapter treateth of the setting of Curnels, young Plum-trees, and Peare-trees, of Damsons, and Service-trees.- Another way, how one may take the Pepins at the first comming of the licour or pressing.
- How one ought to use his earth to sowe Pepins without dunging.
- How ye ought to take heed of Poultrey for scraping of your beddes or quarters.
- How to weed or cleanse your Beds and quarters.
- How one ought to pluck vp the wild Cions,
-
CHAP. II. Treateth how one shall set againe the small wild trees, which come of Pepins, when they be first pluckt up.- How to dung your Bastard or wild young Trees which come of Pepins.
- How ye ought in replanting or setting to cut off in the middest the principall great rootes.
- How you ought to set your Trees in ranke.
- How to make the space from one ranke to another.
- How to water Plants when they waxe dry.
- How one ought to remove Trees, and to plant them againe
- When the best time is to replant, or remoue.
- Of negligence and forgetfulnesse.
- It is not so convenient to Graffe the Service Tree, as to set
- Some trees without graffing bring forth good fruit, and some other being graffed be better to make Syder of.
- When you list to augment and multiply your trees.
- Of the manner and changing of the fruit of the Pepin-tree.
- How one ought to make good Syder.
- To make an Orchard in few Yeares.
-
CHAP. III. Is of setting Trees of Nuttes.- How one ought to set Trees which come of Nuttes.
- Of the time when yee ought to Plant or Set them.
- For to set them in the Spring time.
- Of the Dunging and deepe digging thereof.
- Of Nuttes and Stones like to the Trees they came of.
- Of Planting the said Nuttes in good earth, and in the Sunne.
- Why fruit shall not have so good savour.
- For to set the Pine-trees.
- For to set Cherry-trees.
- Trees of bastard and wild Nuts.
- How to set Filberds or Hasell-trees.
- To set Damsons or Plum-trees.
- To take Plum Graffes, and graffe them on other Plum-trees.
- To set all sorts of Cherries.
- The manner how one may order both Plum-trees, and Cherrie-trees.
- How to graft Plum-trees and Cherry-trees.
- How you must proine or cut your Trees.
- The convenientest way to cleanse and proine, or dresse the rootes of Trees.
- When the Stockes is greater then the Graffes.
- The Remedy when any Bough or Member of a Tree is broken.
- When a Member or Bough is broken how to proyne them.
- How one ought to enlarge the hole about the Tree rootes.
- How to set small Staves by, to strengthen your Cions.
- In taking vp Trees, note.
- How to couch the Rootes when they are proyned.
- What Trees to proyne.
- Why the sower Chery dureth not so long as the Healmier or great Cherry.
- To graffe one great Cherry upon another.
- Of deepe Setting or shallow.
-
CHAP. IV. This Chapter doth shew how to set other Trees which come of wild Cions, pricked in the earth without rootes: and also of proining the meaner Cions.- Trees take roote prickt of Branches.
- How one ought to set them.
- How to bind them that be Weake.
- How one ought to digge the Earth for to set them in.
- Of Cions without Rootes.
- To Plant the Fig-tree.
- How to set Quinces.
- The way to set Mulberries.
- Note one of the same.
- The time meet to cut Cions.
- To set Bush-trees, or Gooseberries, or small Raisons.
-
CHAP. V. Treateth of foure manner of Graffings.- The first way to graffe all sorts of Trees.
- How to graffe Apple-trees, Peare-trees, Quince-trees, and Medlar-trees.
- The Graffing of great Cherries.
- To graffe Medlars.
- Of divers kind of Graffes.
- Of the graffing of the Figge.
- Of the great Apricocke.
- Of the Service-trees.
- The Setting of Service-trees.
- Trees which be very hard to be grafted in the Shield or Scutchion.
- How a man ought to consider those Trees, which be commonly charged with fruit.
- Of Trees whereon to choose your Graffes.
- The Cions towards the East are best.
- To chuse your Tree for Graffes.
- How to keepe Graffes a long time.
- How to keepe Graffes before they are budded.
- How one ought to begin to Graffe.
- When it is good Graffing the wild Stockes.
- Marke if the Tree be forward or not.
- When one will graffe, what necessaries he ought to be furnished withall.
- Of Graffes not prospering the first yeare.
- For to graffe well and sound.
- How to trim your Graffes.
- How to cut Graffes for Cherries and Plums.
- Note also.
- How in graffing to take heed that the Barke doe not rise.
- How to cut your Stocke.
- If the wild Stocke be great and slender.
- Trees as great as ones Arme.
- Great Trees as bigge as your Leg.
- When the Graffes be pinched with the Stocke.
- How ye ought to cleave your Stockes.
- How to graffe the branch of great Trees.
- How to cut Branches old and great.
- How ye ought to bind your Graffes throughout for feare of Winds.
- To set many Graffes in one cleft.
- How to saw your stocke before you leave him.
- If the Stocke cleave too much, or the barke doe open.
- How Graffes never lightly take.
- How to set the Graffes right in the cleft.
- Of setting in the Graffes.
- Note also.
- How ye ought to draw out your wedge.
- To cover your clefts on the head.
- How ye ought to see to the binding of your Graffes.
- How ye ought to temper your Clay.
- To bush your graffe heades.
- The second way to graffe high Branches on Trees.
- The manner of Graffing, is of Graffes which may be set betwixt the Barke and the Tree.
- How to dresse the head, to place the graffes betwixt the Barke and the Tree.
- How to cover the head of your stocke.
- Of the manner and graffing in the Shield or Scutchion.
- For to graffe in Summer so long as the trees be full leaved.
- The big Cions are best to graffe.
- How to take of the Shield from the wood.
- To know your Scutchion or Shield when he is good or bad.
- Of young Trees to graffe on.
- How to set or place your Shield.
- Note also.
- How to lift up the barke and te set your Shield on.
- To Plant or Set towards the South, or Sunny place is best.
- How to cut the Branches of Trees before they be Set.
- Apple-trees commonly must be disbranched before they be replanted or set.
- All wild Stockes must be disbranched when they are replanted or set.
- What Trees love the faire Sunne, what Trees the cold Ayre.
- Of many sorts and manner of Trees following their nature.
- How to place or set Trees at large.
- Ordering your Trees.
- How ye ought to enlarge the holes for your Trees when ye Plant them.
- Of Dung and good Earth, for your Plants and Trees.
- If ye have wormes amongst the Earth of your Rootes.
- To digge well the earth about the Tree Rootes.
- The nature of Places.
- Of good Earth.
- With what ye ought to bind your Trees.
-
CHAP. VII. Of medicining and keeping the Trees when they are planted.- The first councell is, when your Trees be but Plants, in dry weather, they must be watered.
- With what Dung, ye ought to Dung your Trees.
- When ye ought to uncover your Trees in Summer.
- When ye ought to cut or proyne your Trees.
- How to cut your great Branches, and when.
- How ye ought to leave these great Branches cut.
- Of Trees having great Branches.
- Of barrennesse of trees, the time of cutting all bran∣ches, and of uncovering the Rootes.
- Trees which ye must helpe, or plucke up by the Rootes.
- What doth make a good Nut.
- Trees eaten with Beasts must be graffed againe.
- How your wild Stockes ought not hastily to be removed.
- When ye cut off the naughty Cions from the Wood.
- How sometimes to cut the principall Members.
- How to guide and governe the said Trees.
- A kind of Sicknesse in Trees.
- Trees which have Wormes in the Barke.
- Snayles, Ants, and Wormes, doth marre Trees.
- How ye ought to take the said Wormes.
- To keepe Ants from young Trees.
- A Note in Spring time of Fumigations.
- To defend the Caterpiller.
-
-
HEERE FOLLOW∣ETH A LITTLE TREA∣tise how one may Graffe, Plant, and Garden, subtile or artificially, and to make many things in Gar∣dens very strange.
- To graffe one Vine upon another.
- For to have Peaches two Moneths before other.
-
To have Damsons or other Plums unto
Alhallontide. - To make Medlars, Cherries, and Peaches in eating to tast like spice.
- To make a Muscadell tast.
- To set Apples and Peares to come without blossoming.
- To have Apples and Chesnuts rath and also long on Trees.
-
To have good Cherries on the trees at
Alhallontide. - To have rath Medlars two Moneths before others.
- For to have rath or timely Peares.
- To have Misples or Medlars without Stones.
- To have Peares betimes.
- To have ripe or franke Mulberries very soone and late.
- To keepe Peares a Yeare.
- To have your fruit tast halfe Apples, halfe Peares.
- Times of Graffing.
- To Graffe the Quine Apple.
- To destroy Pismires or Ants about a Tree.
- Another for the same.
- To have Nuts, Plummes, and Almonds.
- To make an Oke or other tree greene in Winter as in Summer.
- The time of Planting without Rootes, and with Rootes.
- To keepe fruit from the Frost.
- The dayes to Plant and Graffe.
- To have greene Roses all the yeare.
- To keepe Raisons or Grapes good a yeare.
- To make fruit laxitive from the Tree.
- A Note for all Grafters and Planters.
-
a man grafting a tree - To graffe one Vine on another.
- Chosen dayes to Graffe in and to choose your Cions.
- To gather your Cions.
- Of Wormes in Trees or fruit.
- The setting of Stones and ordering thereof
- To gather Gumme of any Tree.
- To set a whole Apple.
- Of setting the Almond.
- Of Pepins watered.
- To Plant or set Vines.
- To Set or Plant the Cherry.
- To keepe Cheries good a yeere.
- Against Pismires.
- The Setting of Chesnuts.
- To have all stone fruit tast, at ye shall thinke good.
- Of Graffing the Medler and Misple.
- Of the Fig-tree.
- Of the Mulberry-tree.
- Of Trees that beare bitter fruit.
- To helpe barren Trees.
- An other way.
- To keepe your Fruit.
- The Mulberry-tree.
- Of Mosse of the Tree.
- To have the Peach without stones.
- Another way for the same.
- If Trees doe not prosper.
-
How to graffe Apples, to last on the Tree till
Ahallontide. - To make Cherries and Peaches smell and tast like spice.
- To graffe an Apple which shall he halfe sweet and halfe sower.
- To graffe a Rose on the Holly.
- Of keeping of Plummes.
- Of altering of Peares, or stony fruit.
- The making of Cyder and Perrie.
- To helpe frozen Apples.
- To make Apples fall from the Tree.
- To water Trees in Summer if they waxe dry a∣bout the Roote.
- To cherish Apple-trees.
- To make an Apple grow in a Glasse.
- To graffe many sorts of Apples on one Tree.
- To colour Apples.
- The setting of Vine Plants.
- How to proyne or cut a Vine in Winter.
- Of the Vine and Grape.
- To have Grapes without stones.
- To make your Vine to bring a Grape to tast like Claret.
- Of gathering your Grapes.
- To know if your Grape be ripe enough.
- To prove or tast Wine.
- Heere followeth the best times how to order or choose, and to Set or Plant Hoppes.
- To choose your Hoppe.
- To sow the Seeds.
- The Setting your Poles.
- How to proyne the Hop-tree.
- To gather the Hoppe.
- What Poles are best.
- How to order and dresse your Hills.
- Of ground best for your Hoppe.
- A Note of the rest above-said.
- How to packe your Hoppes.
- title page
-
A PERFECT PLAT∣FORME OF A HOPPE Garden.
- Of apt and unapt Ground for Hoppes.
- Of the Scituation.
- Of the quantity.
- A proportion of the charge and benefite of a Hoppe-Garden.
- Of the preparation of a Hoppe Garden.
- The time to cut and set Hoppe Rootes.
- Rules for the choyce and preparation of Rootes.
- Of the good Hoppe.
- Of the unkindly Hoppe.
- Of the wilde Hoppe.
- Of setting of Hoppe Rootes.
- The distance of the Hills.
- A Description of the Line.
- Abuses and Disorders in Setting.
- Provision against annoyance, and spoyle of your Garden.
- Of Poles.
- Of the erection of Poles.
- Of Ramming of Poles.
- Of Reparation of Poles.
- Of pulling up Poles.
- The way to make the Instrument wherewith to pull up the Hoppe Poles.
- The manner of pulling up the Hoppe Poles.
- Of the preservation of Poles.
- Of tying of Hoppes to the Poles.
- Of Hilling and Hills.
- Abuses in Hilling.
- Of the gathering of Hoppes.
- What there is to be done in Winter hereen.
- When and where to lay Dung.
- The order for reforming your Ground.
- The order of cutting Hoppe-rootes.
- Of divers mens follies.
- Of Disorders and Maintainers thereof.
- Of an Oste.
- Of the severall Roomes for an Oste.
- Of the Furnace or Keele.
- Of the bed or upper floore of the Oste, wherein the Hops must be dryed.
- The orderly Drying of Hoppes.
- Other manners of Dryings not so good.
- The very worst way of drying Hops.
- Of not Drying.
- Of the Packing of Hops.
- The reformation of a Garden of wild Hops.
- The reformation of a disordered Garden.
- Needlesse curiosities used by the unskilfull.
- title page
-
Certaine common Instructions how the Stumpe must be chosen, whereupon you will graffe or plant.
- Every Plant will have foure things:
- At what time trees ought to be planted and set.
- How the stumps and plants must be prepared and dressed, which you will plant.
- Here follow certaine instructions how the trees must be kept and how you must labour them.
- How to keep plants, stumps, or trees, from the wilde beasts, that they hurt them not.
- That the Deeres spoile them not.
- That the Hares do not hurt them.
- Here follow some instructions of graffing.
- Divers fashions and waies of graffing there be.
- Another way of grafting is, when the stumps are clo∣ven, and the sprouts afterwards are put in, the which doe as followeth.
- Otherwise.
- The third way of grafting.
- The fourth way of grafting is,
- The fifth way.
- The sixth Way.
- How Cherries are to bee graffed, that they may come without stones.
-
H
- How a grape of a Vine may be brought into a glasse.
- To graffe Medlers on a Peare tree.
- How apples or other fruits may be made red.
- Otherwise.
- Of the Quince tree.
- Otherwise.
- How to make that Quinces become great.
- The conclusion of graffing.
-
What
oy and fruit commeth of trees. The first. - The second.
- The third is of well smelling and spited fruit.
- How sower fruits be made sweet.
- How trees ought to be kept when they wax old.
- How trees must be kept from divers sicknesses, and first how to keep them from the Canker.
- Against worms which must be driven out of the tree.
- How the wormes are to be killed, if they bee al∣ready growne into the tree.
- Otherwise.
- Otherwise.
- A remedy against Caterpillers.
- Against the Pismires or Ants, when they will hurt the yong trees.
- How to keepe the Pismires from the trees.
- Another instruction.
- In what time of the harvest the fruit must be gathered.
- A short instruction very profitable and necessary for all those that delight in gardening, to know the times and seasons when it is good to sow and replant all manner of seeds.
- Worthy remedies and secrets availing against the stroying of Snailes, Cankerwormes, the long bodied moths, garden fleas, earth-wormes, and Moles.
- Excellent inventions and helps against the garden Moles.
- illustrations