of the Nobility with double service In the Gallery 200 Noblemens servants 1100 Inferior Officers with their servants 1500 Other meaner servants of all Offices 62 Cooks In all 2162. THE Lady's DIVERSION IN HER Garden CONTAINING A Handful of Choice and Novel Curiosities and Observations relating to PLANTS and FLOWERS Together With Brief Directions for the Nice Adorning Balconies Turrets and Windows with Flowers or Greens every Month in the Year By Thomas Harris Gard'ner at Stockwel in Surrey 1. Of the Garden 's Form and Situation HAving resolv'd upon a Garden you must next pitch upon its Situation which must not be incompass'd too close with High Buildings but laid open to the Air and Sun with a convenient warm Wall or Fence about it As for the Earth or Soil if it be Unnatural it must be made Natural by Art If the Earth be Hot and Dry then ought your Garden to lye upon a Level If Cold and Wet then it must lye Taporing or Shelving something like the Ridge of a House The Walks in your Garden are not to be Limited but rather drawn out to your Fancy in some Shape or Figure But be sure let there be a Fountain Pump or Rivolet hard by to furnish it with Water upon Occasion 2. Plants when good and how to Chuse them After your Garden is fix'd the borders and beds rais'd the Walks roll'd with Gravel quite cross from one bed to another saving 〈◊〉 foot with Turff next the side of each bed adorn it with Painting c. which will not only beautify it but make it more durable and lasting I say after 't is thus Fitted and compleatly Dung'd ready for Planting you must consider what number of Plants you shall want then repair to the Nursery-Garden to choose your Trees which is best to be done about the middle of September and be sure you fix upon none but what appear to be very sound and without Gum Let 'em be of a fair Bark and see that they have shot considerably that year As for your Dwarfs and Wall-Trees let 'em be straight with one Stem and one Graft Let their buds be good and seem to promise fair 3. Their Diseases and Cures Trees like Mortals are subject to many Distempers which sometimes prove Deadly and Epidemical But as to Trees the Distempers they are incident to are chiefly caused by Earth-Worms Canker Gum Robines Emmets Green Fleâ—s Garden-Mice Laires Ear-Wiggs Caterpillars Snails c. The first whereof lye at the Roots and gnaw so violently the Stem that sometimes a Tree Sickens and Dyes immediately Now to prevent and Cure this Disease you must be sure so soon as you perceive the Plant to droop to uncover the foot thereof shorten the gnaw'd Roots thereof search for and pick carefully all the Worms out and lay fresh wholesom Mold thereto which will in a little time help But if your Tree hath a Canker draw your Knife and with the point thereof cut it out clearly and clap immediately some Cow-Dung or Hogs-Dung and wrap it round with a Rag and the Skin or Rhind will grow again If Gum hath fastned to the Bud Graft or Stem of your Trees it is incurable but if 't is only fix'd on the Branch the Cure may be effected by cutting it off 2 or 3 Inches below the aggrieved part As for Caterpillers Emmets Robines c. they must be pick'd and carefully brushed off But if your Tree sickens by reason it's Branches are too heavy give it ease by lowering the Top-branches or those disorderly ones in the middle and it will again produce fine shoots Finally the only way to prevent 'em from being gnaw'd or wounded by Garden-Mice and Rats is to set Traps and Snares to catch ' em 4. Of Flowers To set down the particular Names of every Flower would swell too big for my intended Brevity and be altogether insignificant to the design of this Manual I shall only give a Catalogue of the Names of the Chiefest of our English Flowers which may easily be had and sufficient for adorning private Garden And of the first the Rose The Damask and Cinamon Rose the Rose of the World the English Red Rose the blush Belgick Rose the double Musk Rose the great Apple-Rose Tulip Florisante Fair Ann Superintendant Aurora General Essex Susanna Rich Parrot Royal Parrot Eagle Diana Gilliflowers K. Charles the Second Q. Catherine K. Solomon a lovely Flower Fair Hellena Mayor of London Fair Rosanna Paramour the Emperor the Empress Prince of Orange Princess of Orange Giant Clove Birsha Astragon Double Stock Gilliflowers Double Strip'd Lillies The Fiery red bulby Lilly Yellow Lilly a tall fine Flower the White Lilly of Constantinople the Double White Lilly the Persian Lilly Primroses and Cowslips The fair red Primrose the Scarlet the Red Primrose Hose in Hose the single Yellow with the Hose divided the Orange-colour'd Cowslip the Twisted Cowslip Double Green Cowslip Red Cowslip or Oxslip Flower-de-Luce Rubente or the great pale-red or peach-coloured is a fine Flower with party-colour'd Spanish Flower-de-Luce Wall-Flower The Double Red the pale Yellow the great simple Wall-Flower Sweet-Williams Of these the double Sweet-Johns and the Velvet Sweet-Williams are the best every slip of them set in the Spring will grow and flower in June Auriculaes Bears-Ears the black Imperial blazing-Star Saffron Crocus Verus or the true Saffron which is sold by Apothecaries the Meadow-Saffron 5. Having given you the Names of several Eminent Flowers to Compleat your Garden I will Entertain you with a pretty Curiosity which is To change the Colours of several Flowers whilst in the Blossom When you are dispos'd to shew Visitants your Flowers follow them and after they have pass'd by a Flower of a purple Colour take a Needle or Pencil dip'd in Spirit of Vitriol and streak the Leaves therewith and it shall immediately turn to a rich Scarlet to the Admiration of the beholders but you may be sure those Leaves so streak'd will wither the next day 6. The Method to be observed in making Hot-Beds As to this Particular I will inlarge a little thereon as knowing it to be an Art worthy of Observation First then it must be made in a place much expos'd to the Sun where drive Stakes into the Earth near 4 Foot distance in breadth at the Ends and for the length take your own Fancy fill up both ends and sides with Wooden Stakes almost a Yard above Ground let each stake be drawn a foot Distance and wound about with straw Ropes then Fling in your Horse-dung and Wet Litter till it rises 2 Foot upon a Level then Tread it down and Raise it so much more and Tread down again till it 's almost the Heighth next Nail some small Boards all round on the Top to keep in the fine sifted Earth which must be 5 Inches deep Stick Hazle-Rods Arching over it like an Arbour strong enough to support Mats or Hair-cloth to make it Heat and observe so soon as the Extream Heat is
Hot beds Preserve your best Gilliflowers and Auricula's from too much Wet or Snow by laying down the pots they are planted in or if in beds by supported coverings at a distance a foot or more and what Ranunculus or Anemonies are appearing but give them as often as you can in suitable Weather airings by taking off their coverings but when Sun sets on with them again Keep your Conservatory close where the Greens and nice plants are housed If it freeze very hard put some clear lighted Charcoal in the middle of the Room a little let into the ground and if the Sun shine clear on the Windows or Doors thereof open them to let in his Noon-beams but be sure to shut them close again as soon as he declines the door Monthly Observations for February Cover the Roots of your Fruit Trees that were before bare and yet plant those Trees you could not the last Month and still be cleansing Trees from Moss and the Webs of Caterpillars from the tops of twigs Begin to graft Apples some Pears Plums Cherries c. Sow and set Beans Pease Asparagus Radish Parsnips Carrots Onions Garlick Plant Cabbage-plants Potatoes Parsley Spinage and other hardy Pot-herbs Transplant your Winter-Colliflowers to have early into rich Soil Now you may be making Hot-beds to sow your Musk-mellon-seeds and Cucumbers at the full Moon in this Month which must first be steeped in new Cows-Milk twenty four hours then place three in a hole When they peep which will be in seven days let in the Sun-shine or clear Air but cover 'em again at Night Still keep close your Conservatory Sow Auricula-seeds into Mallow Earth and sow the same but one thick place best Auricula in pots in the Sun Secure your choice Flowers in Beds with Tiles if they appear above Ground and plant some Anemonies the Weather open for later Flowers place your Boxes sown with choice Seed free from sharp winds and secured from too much wet Monthly Observations for March. BEstir your self now in grafting and early on good Plum-stocks graft Apricocks Nectorines and Peaches Many may miss but never all yet with me Raise up Pots of Earth to convenient branches which degg down therein first slitting the underside where you lay them they shall by October following being often water'd put forth knobs or roots and both grow when cut off and well set in rich Earth and one Tree so taking is worth ten others because each Sprout or Shoot from the Root is the same kind when those of inoculated or grafted are only the Plumbs grafted or inoculated Steak and bind up weak Shrubs and Plants slip and set Sage Rosemary Lavender Thyme except Mastick being too early sow Endive Succory Leeks Radish Beets Parsnips Skirits Parsly Sorrel Bugloss Burrage Chervils c. Sow Lettuce Onions Garlick Purslain Turnips Pease Carrots Cabbages Cresses Fennel Marjoram c. Transplant Medicinal Plants string your Strawberry-Beds cover your Musk-Millon-plants on your Hot-bed with Beer-glasses till you remove them Sow Auriculaseeds as directed at Michaelmas also Sweet-Williams Wall-Flower Stock-July-Flowers Venus Looking-glass Candy-Tuffs French Hony-suckles Primrose and Cowslip-seeds Lark-spurs Rose-Campions Lichnis Campanula Indian Scabious c. also Pinks or rather July-flower-seeds on your Hot-beds sow Flora Africanus or French Marigolds Amaranths Nasturtium Indicum or Indian Cresses Marvel of the World c. Transplent July-Flowers Auriculaes if occasion and all other Fibrous rooted Plants new earthing up your unremoved July Flowers Auriculaes c. Monthly Observations for April In this Month you may Sow Scurvigrass Carnations Radish Marjoram Time Winter-Savoury Purslain Marigolds Hysop and Lettice You may also set Slips of Rosemary Lavender Time A'rtichoaks c. Remove your tender Shrubs and Slip them after gentle Showers and also set French Beans Fix Tiltings over your choicest Tulips Open the Doors and Windows of your Green Houses and use the Inhabitants to the Air. Shelter your young Seedling Auriculaes from the excessive Heat of the Sun and continue Hot-beds for Exoticks and remove them into them till the Earth is warm enough to preserve them abroad Monthly Observations for May. BEgin to Inoculate in this Month according as you find Buds ready which take off the middle of your Sprouts Fetch out your Greens and transplant them into Boxes fill'd with good Earth mix'd with one part of rotten Cow-dung putting Sticks Brick-bats Rubbish and Shells to make the Earth lye light and so make a Hole for the Water at the bottom then set your Plants therein but not deep Water 'em and set 'em in the Sun Gather Seeds of Anemonies as the Dew rises or you will lose it by the Wind sow hot and Aromatick Herbs and in the full Moon plant Stock-July-Flowers in Beds and still keep Weeding your Gardens c. Monthly Observations for June WAter new planted Trees and put rotten Fern about their Stems Inoculate Apples Pears and Wall Fruit c. Lop off needless Branches from your Vines and stop the Joint Gather Herbs to keep in the full of the Moon and Sow Radish Lettice Chervil c. Lay July Flowers which will Root in Six Weeks and what are now blown of a good sort keep for Seed allowing them but few Layers to give Nourishment to and but few Buds you will find the Seed-pod to be fill'd with the fairer Seed Take up Anemonies Ranunculus keep them from Moulding Monthly Observations for July PRune Apricocks and Peaches leaving the most likely Shoots well plac'd Water Young planted Tree and Layers let Olatory Herbs run to Seed Clip Box out of Order after Rain Slip Stocks Plants and Flowers Lay Mirtles Jasemines and other Greens At the end of this Month sift your Beds of Off-sets of Tulips and for Anemonies Ranunculus's c. Sow Anemonie Seeds in fine sifted rich Earth in Beds or Boxes Monthly Observations for August PRune off superfluous Branches and Shoots of the second Spring Pluck up Suckets Inoculate early if a tall in this Month. Sow Colliflowers and Cabbages for Winter-plants Sow Corn-sallet Mary-golds Lettuce Carrots Parsnips Spinage Onions curled Endive Angelica Scurvygrass Larks-heel Columbines Iron colour'd Fox-gloves Holihocks and such Plants as endure Winter Transplant such Lettuce you would have abide all Winter pull up ripe Onions Garlick c. gather Olitory-seeds clip such Herbs before the Full-moon an handful high Sow Purslain Chervil c. Make Summer-syder and Perry Gather seeds of Shrubs being ripe Take Bulb roots of Lillies c. Bartholomew-tide the only secure season for removing and laying Perennial Greens Oranges Lemons Mirtles Phylareas Oleanders Jasmine Arbutus and other rare Shrubs as Pomegranates Roses and whatever is most obnoxious to Frosts taking the shoots and branches of the last Spring and pegging them down with a hook-stick in very rich Earth and Soil perfectly consumed Water them on all occasions in Summer by this time Twelve-month they will be ready to remove into good Earth set in the shade kept moderately moist Three Weeks past set them in some
more airy place but not in the Sun till 15 Days more Now put new Earth in your Pots of Auricula's transplant and divid their Roots into a light rich Earth Also your best Primroses and Oxlips Also your Campions or Lychnis Calcidonices Transplant seedling Anemonies set Colchicums Spiderworts Monthly Observations for September GAther your ripe Winter-fruit be sure in dry weather You may yet sow Lettuce Raddish Spinage c. and Winter-herbs Transplant most part of eating and physical Herbs Artichoaks and Asparagus-roots and Strawberries c. As the Weather directs about Michaelmas in fair Weather be sure avoid a foggy day retire your choice Greens and rarest Plants being dry into the Conservatory as Oranges Lemons Indian and Spanish Jasmines Oleanders Barba Jovis Amomum Plinii Citisus Lunatus Chamaelea Tricoccos C'stus Ledan Clusii Dates Aloes Sedums c. ordering them with fresh Mould as taught in May to nourish them all the Winter leaving as yet the Doors and Windows open giving them much Air so the Wind is not sharp nor the Weather foggy till the Weather 's more cold and sharp and as that increases the more enclose them till wholly shut up as the Weather gives occasion Mirtles will endure abroad near a Month longer The cold coming on set such Plants as will not endure the House into the Earth the Pots 2 or 3 Inches lower than the surface of the Earth under a southern exposure covering them with Glasses cloathed with sweet and dry Moss but upon all fair Days and in sunny and sweet Showers take them off Thus preserve your Marum Syriacum Cystus's Geranicum Nocte olens Flos Cardina is Maracoes seedling Arburus choice Ranunculus and Anemonies and thus covering them till April Plant Tulips and all bulbous Roots but your choice of each defer till the latter end of the next Month. Sow Auricula's Crocus Primrose and Cowslip-seeds Frittary and Tulip-seeds c. Monthly Observations for October NOW is the time for setting Fruit-stores which if the Fruit soon ripe keep them in Sand till now set them 3 Inches deep the sharp end uppermost and cover them with Fern or Straw to keep them warm in the Winter but at the Spring take if off You may sow Lettuce c. for tender Salleting Trench Ground for both plant or transplant all sorts of Fruit-trees having lost their leaves Wall-trees above a Years Grafting lay bare the Roots of old unthriving or over-hasty blooming Trees their Fruit dry the Moon decreasing Remove your best and nicest July-flowers to shelter from much Rain or Wet and where Snow may not be apt to fall on them and brush it off gently when fallen on those that are not capable of shelter And this Month trim them all up with fresh Mould Set your choice Tulips you may now also sow their seeds plant some Anemonies and Ranunculus's in prepared Earth as directed in the Vade Mecum but they must be covered when they appear from the Frosts that will otherwise kill them all Therefore your best set not till December Monthly Observations for November TRench and fit Ground for A'rtichoaks and plant Trees for Standards or Walls Lay in your Cellars Carrots Turnips Parsnips Cabbages and Colliflowers for Seed to be Transplanted in the Spring Furnish your Nursery with Stocks for Grafting and turn up your Melon ground mixing with it your richest Earth and lay it in ridges in the Spring If the Weather require it enclose your tender Plants and Perennial Greens Shrubs c. in your Conservatory stopping all entrance of Cold especially sharp Winds Give not your Sedums or Aloes one drop of Water all the Winter Sow Auricula Seeds and cover peeping Ranunculus's c. Likewise plant Fibrous Roots Lilax Syringaes Peonies Althea frutex and Roses If the Plants are very Dry and it don't Freeze Refresh them Sparingly with Water mingled with Cow or Sheep's Dung. Monthly Observations for December PRune Standard Trees and prune and cut Wall-Fruit Trench Ground and Dung it for Borders planting Fruit-Trees Plant Vines and Stocks for-Grafting and Set early Peas and Beans Now keep your Garden-house well secur'd against Cold and preserve Anemonies Ranunculus's and best July-Flowers from great Rain sharp Winds and Frost The Table to the Art of Preserving Conserving and Candying A ALMOND Butter 5 Almond Milk 7 Apricocks preserv'd ibid Aqua Mirabilis 8 Angellets to make 10 Angelical water 14 Angelica roots preserved 17 Aqua Composita 20 Artificial Malmsey 21 Artificial Claret ibid Apricock cakes 25 A'rtichoaks preserv'd 28 Almond caudle 34 A'rtichoaks to pickle 44 A'rtichoak bottoms to pickle 53 B Barley Water 19 Balm water 20 Broom-buds pickled ibid Dr. Burges's Plague-water 22 Burage-flowers to candy 23 Bisket cakes to make 25 Banbury cakes 28 Barberries candyed 37 Barberries preserved ibid Bragget to make 55 C Conserve of barberries 3 Conserve of roses ibid Cinamon-water ibid â—â—erries preserved 4 Conserve of Oranges 4 Cucumbers to pickle 6 Cream of Quinces ibid Cherry-wine 6 Currans preserved 9 Conserve of Quinces 12 Conserve of rosemary 13 Cherries to dry 14 Conserve of Damsons 16 Conserve to strengthen the back 20 Conserve of burrage-flowers 23 Conserve of Pruans 24 Christial jelly ibid Conserve tarts for all the Year 26 Cordial of Vertue 32 Comfortable Syrup 34 Cherries to candy 34 Clove-gilly-flowers to pickle 35 Cinamon-sugar 46 Cream of Apricocks 37 Cullice to make ibid Cucumbers green 38 Cakes of Lemons ibid Capon water 39 China-broth 40 Cream of codlings 41 Cream tart 41 Cock-ale to make 34 Caraway-cake ibid Cordial-water of clove-gilly-flowers 44 Chips of Quinces 47 Conserve of bugloss-flowers 48 Comfits to make 50 Curran-wine to make 52 Conserve of Sage ibid Cornelians to pickle 54 D Dr. Deodates drink for the Scurvy 19 Damask-water 30 E Excellent broth 9 Excellent Hypocras 21 F French-beans to pickle 7 French bisket to make 16 Flomery caudle 46 Fruits preserved all the Year ibid G Grapes to preserve 8 Goose-berry-cakes 9 Goose-berries preserved 17 Ginger-bread to make 29 Goose-berry-paste 48 Ginger to candy 25 H Hypocras to make 5 Honey of Roses 12 Hydromel to make 45 Honey of Mulberries 49 Honey of Raisins ibid I-J Jelly of Hartshorn 10 Italian-bisket to make 15 Jelly of Straw-berries 24 Imperial-water 31 Jumbals to make 32 Jelly of Apples 54 Jelly of Goose-berries ibid K K. William's perfume 13 K. Edw. perfume ibid L Late Qn 's perfume 13 Leach to make 31 Leach Lombard 30 Leach of Almonds 35 Lozenges of Roses 47 Lemon and Orange-peel pickled 48 M Mackroons to make 4 March-panes to make 7 Marmalade of Quinces 5 Marmalade of Lemons and Oranges 14 53 Metheglen brown 15 Muscadtne comfits 23 Manus christi 23 Musk balls to make 30 Marrigolds to candy 36 Mathiolus Bezoar's water 41 Marmalade of currans 42 Mead to make ibid Mint-water 44 Marmalade of cherries 46 Medlers to preserve 47 Musk-sugar to make 48 N Naple-bisket to make 47 O Oranges to preserve 6 Oyl of Violets ibid Oyl of sweet-almonds 11 Oranges and Lemons
set them on the fire and when they boyl up take them off and let them stand 2 days and then boyl them again once more 34. To preserve Currants Part them in the tops and lay a laying of Currans and a laying of Sugar and so boyl them as fast as you do Rasberries do not put them in the Spoon but Scum them boyl them till the Syrup be pretty thick then take them off and let them stand till they be cold and put them in a Glass 35. To make Goose-berry Cakes Pick Goose-berries and put them in an earthe Pitcher and set it in a Kettle of water till they be soft then put them in a sieve and let them stand till all the juice be out and weigh the juice and as much Sugar as Syrup first Boyl the Sugar to a Candy and take iâ— off and put in the juice and set them in the press till they be dry 36. To make excellent Broth. Take a Chicken and set it on the fire and when it boyls Scum it then put in a Mace and a very little Oatmeal and such herbs as the party requires and boyl it well down and bruise the Chicken and put it in again and it is good broth And to alter it you may put in 6 Prunes and leave out the Herbs or put them in as you please and when it is well boyled strain iâ— and season it 37. To make Angelets Take a quart of new Milk and a pint of Cream and put them together in a little Runnel when it is come well take it up with a spoon and put it into the Vate softly and let it stand 2 days till it be pretty stiff then slip it out and Salt it a little at both ends and when you chink it is salt enough set it a drying and wipe them and within a quarter of a year they will he ready to eat 28. To make Jelly of Harts-horn Take 4 Ounces of shavings of Harts-horn of the inside and 2 Ale-quarts of Water put this in a Pipkin and boyl it very gently till it come to a quart the Harts-horn must be steeped 3 or 4 Hours first afterwards put a little into a Saucer till it be cold and if it jellieth it is boyled enough then being warm take it off the fire and strain it hard through a Cloth and set it a cooling till it be a hard Jelly then take 2 whites of Eggs and beat them very well or with a sprigg of Rosemary or Birch but not with a spoon till a Water come in the bottom then put these beaten Eggs and the Water thereof into a Skillet and all the Jelly upon it with 3 Spoonfuls of damask Rose-water and a quarter of a pound of Sugar and when it boyls stir and lay it pretty well then strain it through a Cloth and let it cool And of this take 4 spoonfuls in the morning fasting and at 4 a Clock in the Afternoon and this is excellent good for the weakness in the Back 39. To preserve Damsons Red or Black Plumbs Take their weight in Sugar and Water enough to make a Syrup to cover them so boyl them a little therein being close covered turning them from spotâ—ing let them stand all night in their own Syrup then set them upon a pot of seething Water and suffer your Plumbs to boyl no faster than the Water under them and when they are both sweet and tender take them up and boyl the Syrup again till they be thick then put 〈◊〉 your Plumbs and it together in your Preserving â—â—aâ—â—es 40. To make Rosemary-water Take Rosemary and the flowers in the midst of May before the Sun rise strip the Leaves and the Flowers from the stalks take 4 or 5 Elecampane Roots and a handful or 2 of Sage and Roots together till they be very small then take 3 Ounces of Cloves and so much of Mace and half a pound of Anniseeds and beat all these Spices every one by themselves then take the Herbs and the Spices and put thereto 4 or 5 Gallions of good White-wine then put in all these herbs and Spices and Wine into an earthen pot and put the Pot into the ground about sixteen days then take it up and distill it with a very soft fire 41. To make Pomatum Take fresh Hogs suet cleansed from the films and washt in White-wine one pound and as much sheeps suet washt in White-wine then take about 16 Pomwater apples cleansed and boyled in Rose-water add to these Rose-wood Sassafras Roots of Orrice Floreirtine of each six Drams of Benzoin Storax Calamita half an Ounce of each and so make it into an Oyntment 42. To make Oyl of sweet Almonds Take dryed sweet Almonds as many as you please beat them small and put them in a hempen cloth and without fire by degrees press out the Oyl 43. An Excellent Water against fits of the Mother Take Briony-roots Elder berries ripe drest at a gentle heart in a Furnace and cleans'd from their stalks of each 2 Onnces leaves of Mugwort Bittany Peatherfew Nep Basil Penny-royal Rue Sabine all dryed in the Sun of each half an Ounce peels of Oranges the out-side dry'd and Ounce and a half Mirrh Castoreum of each 3 drams Saffron 1 dram pouder them and steep them 8 days in 2 quarts of the Spirit of Wine then strain them through a very quick Hair-strainer keep the Liquor in a glass very well stopt 44. To make Syrup of Wormwood Take Roman Wormwood or Pontick Wormwood half a pound of red Roses 2 Ounces Indian Spike drams old White-wine and juice of Quinces of each 2 pints and a half bruise them in an earthen Vessel 24 hours then boyl them till half be Wasted strain it and put to the straining two pounds of Sugar and boyl it to a Syrup 45. To make Conserve of Quinces Take 3 quarts of the juice of Quinces Clarified boyl it until two parts be wasted then put to it 2 pounds of white Sugar then boyl them to the thickness of Honey 46. To make Syrup of Poppies Take the heads and seeds of white Popy and of black of each 50 drams Venus hair 15 Licorice 5 drams Jnjubes 30 drams Lettice seed 40 drams add of the seeds of Mallows and Quinces tied up in a fine rag of each 1 dram and a half boyl them in 8 pints of Water until half be wasted strain it and to 3 pound of Liquor put thereto Perides and Sugar of each 1 Pound boyl them to a Syrup 47. To make Honey of Roses Take of white Honey despumed fresh juice of red Roses one pound put them into a Skillet and when they begin to boyl throw into them fresh red Rose-leaves picked 4 pounds and boyl them till the juice be wasted always stirring it then strain it and put it up in an earthen Pot. 48. To make Syrup of Lemons Take of the juice of Lemons purified by going thro' woolen strainer with crushing 3 quarts and a half â—nd of white Sugar
over which you may observe by feeling it blood-warm to sow your Seeds Note if you are afraid your Horse-dung wont Heat fling it Light up and Mix therein Sea-coal and it will Heat at your Pleasure Observe likewise in November to stop all Crevises in your Green-houses that no cold may come in to which end lay straw Mats and if it should happen to Freeze set a Pan of Charcoal in the Middle And if your Plants be very Dry and the Weather is not Extream water them Moderately Mingling your Water in a little Sheeps Dung Cow-dung c. But besure you Wet not the Leaves therewith lest the Cold Chill and strike to the Heart thereof Directions for Adorning Balconies Turrets and Windows with Flowers and Greens ad the Year round 1. Balconies FIrst measure the length of your Balcony that is what Room there is each sides the Doors and if the bredth of your Balcony will allow of boxes measure 'em out also make your boxes 18 Inches deep let the Corners be fasten'd with Iron plates to preserve 'em from Warping or Opening with Iron handles at each end to remove them upon Occasion Which done Paint 'em as you please and lay them in Oyl and clap your Mold therein Now I as for the Iron-work of your Balcony over which you lean it may be set off with fine Guilded pots 2 foot distance in the middle let there be an Image fix'd and at each end 2 larger pots with Lawrel Juniper or striped Phillerea In the boxes next your Balcony-doors plant on each side a Cherry-tree or 2 Dwarfs one to ripen in May and the other in June and let the other Vacances be supplied with Germander Periwincle guilded and plain Gilliflowers 2 pots the best and two boxes of Roses set opposite to each other And to Compleat the whole if you can any ways contrive over your Balcony-doors to set a Creeper c. it will not only beautify the Frontispiece of the House but be very delightful and pleasant to your Chamber-Windows Of Turrets or Leads Your Turrets must be measur'd out as your Balcony and at a Convenient Corner for Air and prospect fix your Arbour In the middle of your Leads fix an Image Sun-Dial or large Tree Boxes of 5 Foot length will be long enough and 2 Foot high between each box set a Guilded pot and at the Corners let there stand Dwarfs then fix your battlements with Summer and Winter-Greens as you please as Venus Cushion Green-Lavender Lavender-Spike Stock-Gilliflowers Tulips Violets Sweet Williams Crocus's Sweet Johns Flower-de-Luce Cowslips Auricula's c. Of Sash-Windows Send for your Smith and let him make Iron-work to hold as many pots as you think fit and put therein nothing but Winter-Greens as either Lawrus Tinus Perecanthus Everlasting Thorn Mezerion Boxes c. In the Summer you may set Mint Bawm c. Cowslips Primroses c. if you please but those Greens before-mentioned are the best for Windows Notwithstanding all these Directions I have laid down yet if your Gardens c. are not duely Water'd it is all Labour in Vain To prevent which take these few Observations viz. When you have a foresight of Drowth begin to Water before the Earth is too dry but for Plants use not Well-water for it is so strained thorough the Earth or rather barren Sands or Rocks and for want of the Sun so chill and cold that having no Nourishment rather the contrary doth more hurt than good Rivers that run quick and long on sharp Gravel are little better but if you are forced to use such let it stand some time in Tubs in the Sun mixed with Dung Let the quantity and quality of the Dung mixed with the Water be according to the Nature of your Plants if your Plants be great growers and require heat then put Horse-dung in your Water If your Water be bad then put Dung into it to help it let it stand in the Sun and open Air uncovered If your Plants be fine and tender then put Sheep or Cows dung Deer or Asses dung into the Water the worse the Ground and more barren be sure to put in the more dung Take care you Water no Plants with standing stinking Ditch-water nor no Water that stinketh for sweet Water not too clear and fresh Mould not musty or tainted by Weeds is as proper for tender Plants as sweet and good Food warm and clean Lodging for tender and fine bred Persons Rain-water is very good if not too long kept but if your Vessel be large the oftener you stir it the longer it will keep sweet Large and Navigable Rivers that receive much Soil by washing Streets and the many sinks that run into it and which by its motion doth cleanse it self from that which is Noxious both to Man and Plants is an excellent Water for all sorts of Plants The larger the Ponds be the better the Water is for Plants the opener to the Sun the better the more motion they have by Horses washing in them or Geese and Ducks swimming 't is so much the better Water all Seeds with the smallest or Rain-like drops you can and not to much at a time or too fiercely lest you discover them For Flowers and Plants whose Leaves lie on the Ground water them at some distance by making a hollow Circle about the Plant and pouring Water into it by which means you avoid annoying the Leaves by discolouring Water or chilling the Roots by too sudden Coldness In Summer-time or all warm Seasons the Evening is best for watering because the Water will have time to sink in the Earth and the Plant attract it before the Sun's heat exhales it But in Winter or cold Weather the Morning is the most proper time that the superfluous moisture may be evaporated ' ere the cold Night overtake you and I hill perhaps kill a tender Plant. A drooping Plant that you think Water will preserve may be watered by Filtration i. e. set an earthen or wooden Vessel on a Brick full of Water near your Plant that all the Water may be higher than the Earth wet a thick woollen List put one end with a Stone or bit of Lead into the Water that it may keep to the bottom lay the other end on the Ground near the Root of the Plant and the Water will distil out of the Bowl or Pot through the List Monthly Observations for January LAY bare the Roots of your Fruit trees and if the weather open lâ—y well-digested Muck to them transplant young Trees prune the rest and nail up your Wall fruit cut your Vines close cleanse your Trees of Moss by singing it off with handfuls of bolting Wheat or Rye Straw held flaming to the boughs first gathering your Cions for Grafts turn over your before-mucked Ground in your Kitchin-Garden also your heaps of mixed Earth and Cow-dung for Flower-Garden Set Beans and Pease in open Weather to have early sow Lettuce Radish Chervil Spinage and other Salading-plants in