_p. 64_
_To discerne the age of trees._ _p. 65_

CHAP. 15.
_Of gathering and keeping Fruit._ _p. 65_

CHAP. 16.
_The profit of Orchards._ _p. 67_
_Of Cydar and Perry._ _p. 67_
_Of Fruit, Waters and Conserue._ _p. 68_

CHAP. 17.
_Of Ornaments._ _p. 68_
_Of the delights._ _p. 69_
_The causes of delights._ _p. 70_
_Of Flowers, Borders, Mounts &c._ _p. 70_
_Of Bees._ _p. 72_

THE BEST, SVRE AND READIEST VVAY to make a good _Orchard_ and _Garden_.

CHAPTER. 1.

_Of the Gardner, and his Wages._

{SN: Religious.}
Whosoeuer desireth & endeauoureth to haue a pleasant, and profitable
Orchard, must (if he be able) prouide himselfe of a Fruicterer,
religious, honest, skilful in that faculty, & therwithall painfull: By
religious, I meane (because many think religion but a fashion or custome
to go to Church) maintaining, & cherishing things religious: as Schooles
of learning, Churches, Tythes, Church-goods, & rights; and aboue all
things, Gods word, & the Preachers thereof, so much as he is able,
practising prayers, comfortable conference, mutuall instruction to
edifie, almes, and other works of Charity, and all out of a good
conscience.

{SN: Honest.}
Honesty in a Gardner, will grace your Garden, and all your house, and
helpe to stay vnbridled Seruingmen, giuing offence to none, not calling
your name into question by dishonest acts, nor infecting your family by
euill counsell or example. For there is no plague so infectious as
Popery and knauery, he will not purloine your profit, nor hinder your
pleasures.

{SN: Skilfull.}
Concerning his skill, he must not be a Scolist, to make shew or take in
hand that, which he cannot performe, especially in so weighty a thing as
an Orchard: than the which, there can be no humane thing more
excellent, either for pleasure or profit, as shall (God willing) be
proued in the treatise following. And what an hinderance shall it be,
not onely to the owner, but to the common good, that the vnspeakeble
benefit of many hundred yeeres shall be lost, by the audacious attempt
of an vnskilfull Arborist.

{SN: Painfull.}
The Gardner had not need be an idle, or lazie Lubber, for to your
Orchard being a matter of such m