The country-mans recreation
Subtitle: 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 ...
Series: Early English Books, 1475-1640 -- 921; Early English Books, 1475-1640 -- 1098
Publisher: Printed by B. Allsop and T. Fawcet for Michael Young, and are to be sold at his shop in Bedford-street in Coven-garden neere the New Exchange
Published: 1640
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
Subjects: Gardening; Early works to 1800; Grafting; Hops
Other titles: Art of planting, graffing, and gardening; Expert gardener.; Treatise containing certaine necessary, secret, and ordinary knowledges in grafting and gardening.
Notes: Signatures: A-S⁴ ²A-G⁴.

Book 1 is an anonymous reprint of "A booke of the arte 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".

STC (2nd ed.) 5874