The Contents of the Countrey
House-wifes Garden.

[Chap. 1.] The Soyle. [Pag. 77] Bee-house.[p. 98].
[Chap. 2.] Site.[p. 78] Hiues.[p. 100].
[Chap. 3.] Forme. [p. 79] Hiuing of Bees. p. ibid.
[Chap. 4.] Quantity. [p. 85] Spelkes. [p. 101].
[Chap. 5.] Fences.p. ibid. Catching. [p. 102].
[Chap. 6.] Two Gardens.[p. 86] Clustering.[p. 103].
[Chap. 7.] Diuision of herbs. [p. 88] Droanes.[p. 104].
[Chap. 8.] The Husbandry of herbes.p. ibid. Annoyances. [p. 105].
[Chap. 9.] Generall rules.[p. 96] Taking of Bees.[p. 106].
[Chap. 10.] The Husbandry of Bees.[p. 98] Straining honey. p. ibid.
Vessels.p. ibid.

A MOST PROFITABLE
NEWE TREATISE,
From approued experience of the art
of propagating Plants: by
Simon Harward.

Chap. 1.
The Art of propagating Plants.

1. There are foure sorts of Planting, or propagating, as in laying of shootes or little branches, whiles they are yet tender in some pit made at their foote, as shall be sayd hereafter, or vpon a little ladder or Basket of earth, tyed to the bottome of the branch, or in boaring a Willow thorow, and putting the branch of the tree into the hole, as shall be fully declared in the Chapter of Grafting.

2. There are likewise seasons to propagate in; but the best is in the Spring, and March, when the trees are in the Flower, and doe begin to grow lusty. The young planted Siens or little Grafts must be propagated in the beginning of Winter, a foot deepe in the earth, and good manure mingled amongst the earth, which you shall cast forth of the pit, wherein you meane to propagate it, to tumble it in vpon it againe. In like manner your superfluous Siens, or little Plants must be cut close by the earth, when as they grow about some small Impe, which we meane to propagate, for they would doe nothing but rot. For to propagate, you must digge the earth round about the tree, that so your rootes may be laid in a manner halfe bare. Afterward draw into length the pit on that side where you meane to propagate, and according as you perceiue that the roots will be best able to yeeld, and be gouerned in the same pit, to vie them, and that with all gentlenesse, and stop close your Siens, in such sort, as that the wreath which is in the place where it is grafted, may be a little lower then the Siens of the new Wood, growing out of the earth, euen so high as it possible may be. If the trees that you would propagate be somewhat thicke, and thereby the harder to ply, and somewhat stiffe to lay in the pit: then you may wet the stocke almost to the midst, betwixt the roote and the wreathing place, and so with gentle handling of it, bow downe into the pit the wood which the grafts haue put forth, and that in as round a compasse as you can, keeping you from breaking of it: afterward lay ouer the cut, with gummed Waxe, or with grauell and sand.

Chap. 2.
Grafting in the Barke.

Grafting in the Barke, is vsed from mid-August, to the beginning of Winter, and also when the Westerne winde beginneth to blow, being from the 7. of February, vnto 11. of Iune. But there must care be had, not to graffe in the barke in any rainy season, because it would wash away the matter of ioyning the one and the other together, and so hinder it.

3. Grafting in the budde, is vsed in the Summer time, from the end of May, vntill August, as being the time when the trees are strong and lusty, and full of sap and leaues. To wit, in a hot Countrey, from the midst of Iune, vnto the midst of Iuly: but cold Countries, to the midst of August, after some small showres of Raine.

If the Summer be so exceeding dry, as that some trees doe withhold their sap, you must waite the time till it doe returne.