The country-mans recreation, or The art of planting, graffing, and gardening, 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.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

M.A. Shaaber Fund for the Furness Shakespeare Library.

Mabb, Thomas, -1665?, printer.

Hunt, William, active 1647-1660, printer.

Sheares, William, -1662, bookseller.

Language:

Dutch

English

French

Subjects (All):

Gardening--Early works to 1800.

Gardening.

Fruit-culture--Early works to 1800.

Fruit-culture.

Grafting--Early works to 1800.

Grafting.

Hops--Early works to 1800.

Hops.

Fishing--Early works to 1800.

Fishing.

Penn Provenance:

Lawes Agricultural Trust (stamp) (RBC copy)

Sharp, R. Farquharson (Robert Farquharson), 1864-1945 (autograph) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

[16], 135, [3], 54, [2], 18 p. : ill. ; 19 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Country-mans recreation

Art of planting, graffing, and gardening, in three books

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by T. Mabb [and William Hunt], for William Shears ..., 1654.

Contents:

(from t.p.) The first declaring divers waies of planting, and graffing, and the best times of year ...

The second treateth of the hop-garden, with necessary instructions for the making and the maintenance thereof ... with some directions for tabaco

Whereunto is added, The expert gardener, containing divers necessary and rare secrets belonging to that art.

Notes:

Signatures:

The first book (p. 1-88)--is an anonymous reprint of Leonard Mascall's Booke of the arte and maner, howe to plant and graffe all sortes of trees; the second book, A perfect platforme of a hop-garden, is by Reginald Scot, originally published in 1574 (cf. STC 2nd. ed., 5874 and 11562, in reference to an earlier edition).

The second book has been enlarged with a section on planting tobacco. Thomas Barker's Art of angling has been added at the end.

The second work has separate t.p.: A perfect platform of a hop-garden : and necessary instructions for the making and maintenance thereof ... London : Printed by T. Mabb, for William Shears ..., 1653.

The third work has separate t.p.: The expert gardener, or, A treatise containing certaine necessary, secret, and ordinary knowledges in grafting and gardening ... / faithfully collected out of sundry Dutch and French authors. London : Printed by William Hunt, 1654.

The fourth work has separate t.p.: The art of angling : wherein are discovered many rare secrets, very necessary to be knowne by all that delight in that recreation. London : [s.n.], Printed in the yeare 1653.

Signatures: A-T⁴, ²A-G⁴, ³A-B⁴ C² (leaf ³C1 signed "D").

Local Notes:

RBC copy imperfect: "A perfect platform of a hop-garden" (leaves O1-T4) only.

RBC copy has ms. corrections to page numbers; some ms. notes in ink and pencil in text; a few ms. underlines and marginal marks in text.

RBC copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2018 from John Drury Rare Books.

RBC copy has stamp ("LAWES AGRICULTURAL TRUST") on front pastedown.

RBC copy has affixed to back pastedown ms. note ("I regret I have not been able to trace any information respecting this. We do not appear to have the 1653 edition of the 'Perfect Platform.' R.F.S.") from R. Farquharson Sharp on notepaper of the British Museum with printed statement "With the compliments of the [added in ms.: Deputy-]Keeper of Printed Books." and dated ms. note ("Reply to enquiry re authorship of Certaine directions for the sowing, planting, and transplanting of tabaco. 22:8:21.") in another hand at head.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the M.A. Shaaber Fund for the Furness Shakespeare Library.

Cited in:

ESTC R207486

Wing (2nd ed., 1994) B784

Hunt botanical cat. 262

Contains:

Mascall, Leonard, -1589. Booke of the arte and maner, howe to plant and graffe all sortes of trees.

Scot, Reginald, 1538?-1599. Perfite platforme of a hoppe garden.

Barker, Thomas, active 1651. Barker's delight.

Expert gardener, or, A treatise containing certaine necessary, secret, and ordinary knowledges in grafting and gardening.

OCLC:

31250983