on suche wise handled the plantes springing and shooting vp weaken the lesse yea being feeble they shal mightly be holpen â—with water Bryne mixed and sprinckled on them There are câ—rtaine Greeke instructers of Husbandrie both of Plinie Columella and the Neapolitane Paladius Rutilius allowed and commended which will that the rootes of the wild Cucumbre be infused for one whole day and a night in faire water and with the same through the often sprinckling so to moisten well the Seedes the next day those Seedes couered ouer with a Blancket they will the next morrowe to be committed to the earth affirming the Seedes thereby to prosper the bâ—tter and these for a certaintie to bee preserued from all euill annoyances The selfe same doth the skilful Apuleius will that a fewe Lentels be also myxed with the seedes â— in the sowing of them for as much as the â—ame pulse by propertie auayleth againste the harmes of wyndes Thys authour further willeth that for a safety of the seedes bestowed a speckled Tode named of the Greekes Phrynon bee drawen by a lyne in the nyghte time rounde about the Garden or fielde afore the earth be laboured or diligently digged and dressed of the Gardener and the same after inclosed in an earthen potte to be buried in y e middes of the Garden or Falowe fielde which at the present sowing time approched shall then bee digged furth and throwen or carryed from that place a greate distaunce off least the plantes after the seedes sowen growing vppe in that place maye proue or become bitter and vnpleasant of smell The Egiptian and Greeke instructors of husbandrie reporte that the seedes after the bestowing will remayne vngnawen or bitten and free of harme by creeping things in the Garden if the seedes shall bee committed to the earth when the Moone possesseth hic halfe light or is quarter olde It might be thought an obliuiousnesse to haue ouerpassed y e physicke experiment of y e singular Democritus both for the seedes and plantes noted diligently of the skilfull Neapolitane Palladius Rutilius after this maner Bestow and close couer saith Democritus of the Sea or riuer Ereuises no fewer than ten in number into a glasse body filled vp with water the same set abrode in the aire let so stande to bee sunned for tenne dayes togither the Seedes that you would after haue to remaine in the earth vnharmed sprinckle and moisten with the same water for eyght dayes togyther after these eyght dayes ended as Rutilius instructeth doe in like manner with that water vntill the plantes after your desired minde be well sprung vp at whiche experiment thus handled you will greatly maruell for out of these Seedes what plants shall be sprung and shot vp will not only driue Beastes and Cattell from the eating of them but all other creeping things of what condition they be from the gnawing and biting of them of whyche matters shall further be intreated in the proper Chapiters a little after and for other defenses and helpes of Seedes as occasion offereth in the places shall be vttered The laudable instructions of the auntient in the nature and election of sundry Seedes with the apt times commended for the sowing of most Kitchin Herbes Chapter 18. THe singular Columella instructeth that all Seedes bestowed in the Garden for the vse and benefite of the Kitchin or potte ought rather be done in the increase of the Mone as from the first vnto the sixte day For asmuch as all Seedes committed to the Earthe in the decrease or waine of the Moone eyther slowly breake and shoote vp or else so weakely increase that these after serue to small purpose It many times also happeneth as the worthy Varro reporteth that although the Seedes bestowed in the Earth be done in the increase of the Mone the Seedes besides hauing a iuice waightie full white meale in them and in no maner corrupted or too old yet these notwithstaÌ„ding are hindered through some euill constellation which of the skilful is named an influence of Heauen were the Gardeners diligence neuer so muche so that it is not impertinent to the matter heere to recite what the worthy Neapolitane Palladius Rutilius reporteth of the Garden ground which sayeth that a garden plot placed and lying vnder a freshe and sweete aire and moistned gently by some Spring or sweete water runnyng by is in a manner battell and readie ynough whereby the same requireth but a small instructioÌ„ and diligence to be bestowed in the sowing of it The bestowing of Seedes in a moist earth the beddes afore short cast ought to be done in the warme season of the Spring as in May and the Mone increasing for seedes on suche wise handled prosper the better through the warme and drie time following But if occasion moueth you to commit Seedes into a drie ground and that water bee farre distant then digge the alleis of the beddes deepe and in a slope maner for the better leading of the water from beddes sufficiently moistned to others lacking moisture and to these such a drie Earth better agreeth to be sowen in the Haruest time the ground before well moystned with shoures heerein not forgetting the choise of seedes nearest agreeing to the natures of these two Earthes with the furtherance of the Moone at time of the sowing If the Gardener mindeth to commit seedes to the Earth in the Sommer time lette the same be done in the increase of the Mone in the monethes of July and August In the Haruest time about the middle of September and in October y e Mone in those monethes in hir first quarter for the time againe of committing Seedes to the Earth let the same be done in the Monethes of February and March the Mone at those times increasing of lighte The Seedes which ought especially to be sowen in the Earth about the ende of Haruest as about the middle of September and in October the Mone at those times increasing that these may all the Winter endure and be strengthned in the ground are the Endiue Onions Garlike Scalions the great Garlike yong Leekeheads Colewortes Mustard seede and such like The Garden ground naturally colde or all the day receyueth but a weake comforte of the Sunne through his shorte presence or tarying there or else in colde Countries as at Yorke and farther Northe In such places I say the bestowing of many seedes better agree to be done about the middle of the Spring or in the moneth of May in warme and caulme dayes the Mone then increasing of light But the seedes to be committed to the earth in those Countries and places in the Haruest time ought rather to be done sooner or before the time with vs where the Seedes otherwise to bee bestowed in hote Countries and places in the Spring time require farre timelyer to be done as in the beginning of the moneth of Marche and the Seedes to bee sowen in those places in the Haruest time to bee bestowed muche later The
this for the more parte be wonte to vaporate or breath foorth any noysome ayre that may both to men and the Plantes be harmefull For peculiar or proper is the same or rather such is the propertie of very many still waters and Motes So that it is the counsell of the skilfull if any lyke be knowen to refrayne from placing any Garden plotte or Orcharde if the owner may choose neare to the same The forme of the inclosures whiche the Husbandmen and Romaynes in time past inucâ—ted Chap. 7. FOr asmuche as the same may be thought a meere madnesse to haue chosen out a fitte plotte of grounde and to cast digge and dresse it seemely in all poyntes yet lying open day and night aswell to the incursious and coÌ„mon haunte as to the iniuries to be wrought done by robbers or theeues foules and beastes for that cause I here minde to intreate of the sundry maners of fensing coÌ„passing in of the Garden groundes in auncient time First the skilfull and warie husbande men in tyme paste being those of good abilitie buylte them walles about of Fâ—râ—stone artly layed and mortered togither some did with baked bricke like handled Others of lesser abilitie and of the meaner sorte framed them inclosures with stones handsomely layed one vpon an other without morter or Cley and some of them couched the broade Slate stones with other bigge and large stones in like order aboute where such dwelt by quarries of stone But very many of the baser and poorer sorte made them fenâ—es and walles aboute with mudde of the ditche dung chaffe and strawes cut short and wel mixed togither Others there were whiche with bigge Canes set vpright by small poles bound togither so fensed theyr Garden plot in handsome maner round about Some also with yong Willow trees set by certayne distances and the drie blacke thorne purchased from the woodde beyng bound in betweene the spaces so framed theyr inclosure but this maner of inclosing wrought or buylte by Arte the skilfuller named a dead and rough inclosure made especially for the keepyng and defending of Cattell out of the Garden ground Yet the hedge or inclosure erected after this maner required euery yeare to be newe repayred and bounde vp in the places needefull to the tediousnesse and great paynes of the husbande man The learned Columella in his husbandry reporteth that the Romaynes in time paste fenced and inclosed their Garden groundes with bigge quarters set vpright and Poles with lathes very thicke fastned to them by small roddes of the Osier tree walling them in Some boared large holes through bigge bodies or stockes of trees that quarters or great poles made for the purpose might passe thorough them eyther by twoo or three togither in reasonable distaunce with payle borde raysed and fastned along to them Some also through the tymber of trees set into the earth fastned bigge poles or long quarters round about much like to the vsuall Cattell poundes in our age But some attayning a more skill erected as Varro reporteth a natural inclosure set about with the blacke or White thorne trees and yong willowes whiche had besides the rootes of a quicke set hedge that in tyme growing vp withstoode tempestes windes landfloudes yea fire the consumer of all things put to it The Auncient husband men did besides these inuent the caâ—ting vp of banckes countermâ—res of earth round aboute the Garden plotte much lyke to the trenches in tyme of warre aboute Bulwarkes and Tentes and these they especially made neere to high wayes or by Riuers and in Marrishes or Fennes lying open or other Fieldes that the Garden plot might on such wise be defended from the damages and harmes both of Theeues Cattell and Landfloudes For a playner conceyuing of the abouesayde learne these folowing that the Auncient husbandmen did caste vp and made a deepe ditche about theyr Garden ground standing in the open fielde whiche might receyue al the rayne water falling and this they so digged with a slope passage whereby the water might runne the easier and freelier from the bottome The earth and Clay cast vp on the inside faste by the brincke they so wrought vp togither that hardly any person after the drying of the couÌ„termure could clyme ouer the same Some also made high banckes or countermures without a ditche digged about and the same so serued in the open fieldes in steade of a wall To be brief the inclosure whiche longest indured surest and of the least cost was the same that the Romaynes in auncient time made with Brambles and the white Thorne layed orderly in bankes for the better growing vp For this inclosure or hedge after yeeres sprung vp endured by reporte of the learned Cato an infinite time yea experience in our age doth likewise confirme the same For whiche cause this inclosure was very much commended of the Auncient Romaynes who well conceyued and knew that the Bramble decayed or died not at any season except it were digged and plucked quite vp by the rootes Yea they learned by practise that the Bramble swinged or scorched with straw flaming recouered grew euery yeare after both stiffer rougher and thicker togither The later inuentions of erecting a naturall and strong Hedge â–ª whiche in time growing may proue a most sure defence and sauegarde of the Garden Chap. 8. THe most commendable inclosure for euery Garden plot is a quick set Hedge made with the Brambles and white Thorne but the stronger and more defensiue Hedge is the same whiche the singular Democritus in his Greeke instructions of husbandry that wrote long before Columella and Palladius Rutilius cunningly vttereth and the same with ease and small coste after this maner Gather sayth he in a due season of the yeare the â—eedes founde in the redde berries of the biggest and highest Bryars whiche by a more common name with vs are called the wilde Eglantine Bryars the through rype seedes of the Brambles runnyng low by the grounde the rype seedes of the white Thorne and to these bothe the rype Berries of the Gooseberrie and Barberrie trees this done mixe and stiâ—pe for a tyme all the Berries and Seedes in the blended meale of Tarts vnto the the thickenesse of Honie the same mixture lay diligently into olde and vntwisted Shippe or Well roapes or other long worne roapes and fittered or broken into shorte peeces beyng in a manner starke rotten in such order that the Seedes bestowed or couched within the softe heares of them may be preserued and defended from the colde vnto the beginnyng of Spring At whiche tyme where you be minded that the inclosure or Hedge shall runne and spring vp there digge in handsome maner twoo small furrowes and these eyther two or three foote asunder and a mans foote and a halfe deepe into whiche lay your roapes with the Seedes couering them workemanly with light carth and if neede shall requyre water by sprinckling or moysten the Seedes in the same wise agayne The worthie
experience is to the Gardener as a Scholemaister to instruct him how much it auayleth and hindereth that seedes to be soweÌ„ plantes to be set yea Sions to to bee grafted in this or that time hauing herein regarde not to the time especially of the yere as the Sunne altereth the same but also to the Moones increase and wayne yea to the signe shee occupyeth and places both aboue and vnder the Earth To the aspectes also of the other planets whose beames and influeÌ„ce both quicken coÌ„fort preserue maintaine or else nippe wyther drye consume and destroy by sundry meanes the tender seedes plantes yea Graftes and these after their property and vertue natural or accidentall Herein not to be forgotten the apt choyse and circumspection of the Earth with other matters generally required in the same for whyche cause after the minde of the skilful Astronomers and prudent experimenters in either committing seedes to the Earth and planting or other like practise to be vsed about the seeds plantes and yong trees these rules folowing are to bee vnderstanded and kept which they haue lefte to vs for our commoditie in cases of importance and where the occasion may be imployed WheÌ„ the Moone and Saturne are either three score degrees of y e Zodiacke asunder which distance in heauen is named of the skilfull a Sextyle aspect it is then commended to laboure the Earth sowe and plant marked after this manner âš¹ But when these are 126. degrees asunder which properly is named a Trigon or trine aspect thus noted â–³ for y e more part then is that time better coÌ„mended for laboring the Earth whether it be for tilling Gardening sowing planting and setting or cutting of vynes When the Moone and Saturne are well a quarter of the Zodiaâ—e distant which is .90 degrees named of the skilfull a quadrate aspect thus comonly marked â–¡ then is denied vtterly to deale in such matters The Moone being sixe signes distant froÌ„ Saturne so that she occupyâ—th the like degree in Taurus as Saturne in Scorpio or y e Moone other wise in like degrees of Gemini to Saturne right agaynst in Sagitarie this aspect togither is disalowed of the expert Astronomers and noted after this maner ☠The Moone possessing hir full light at those times is like denied of the skilfull yea the Moone being neare to that section named of most Astronomers y e Dragons tayle is in like maner disallowed for sowing of fine seedes and setting of daintie plants Here vttering preceptes generall as we now do But the Moone approched nere to that section named the Dragons hed the same time for doing the like is verie wel commended al things before supposed agreeable But to be briefe and to knit vp other obseruations answering to the Moones place especially lerne these ensuing The Moone increasing and running betweene the .28 degree of Taurus and the .xj. degree of the signe Gemini sow fine seedes and plant daintie herbes your earth afore prepared and ayre answerable But the Moone founde betwene the .28 degree of Gemini and the sixt of Cancer although shee increase yet bestow no daintie seedes in your earth prepared for the purpose From the sixth degree of Cancer vnto the .xix. degree of the same signe so that the Moone increase both labour the earth sow fine seedes and plant daintie hearbes herein regarding the condition of the ayre From the .28 degree of the signe Leo vnto the .xj. degree of Virgo your seedes and plantes of valour sow and set the warme ayre and Moone ayding thereto From the .xj. degree of Virgo vnto the .xxiiij. degree of the same signe commit seedes to the earth and set your daintie plantes so that the winde then bloweth not from the north nor the ayre colde From the .xxiiij. degree of Virgo vnto the seuenth degree of the signe Libra labour the Garden grounde and sowe your fine seedes so that the Moone increase From the seuenth degree of Libra vnto the .xix. degree of the same signe the Moone answering thereto sowe and plant From the sixth of Capricornus vnto the .xix. degree of the same signe both the Moone and Ayre ayding thereto sowe your fine seedes and daintie plantes set From the .xxiiij. degree of Pisces vnto the seuenth degree of Aries the Moone increasing of light and ayre calme bestowe your seedes and plantes in the well dressed earth prepared for the onely purpose These precepts of the prudent experimenters well borne away of euery carefull Gardener the seedes and plantes no doubt shall prosper and increase the better Certaine instructions more curious to be learned of euery skilfull Gardener in the bestowing of seedes and daintie hearbes in a well dressed carth Chap. 21. THe learned Plinie worthy of memorie vttereth a speciall note and rule of the auncient obseruers to be learned of euery carefull Gardener in the bestowing of seedes that if he bee occasioned to commit seedes into a moyst earth or the seedes to be bestowed are of a greate moysture then shall the Gardener commodiously choose the ende of the Moones decrease or waine and neare to hir chaunge In a contrarit maner the Garden ground of the dryest or the â—eedes very dry then in committing such seeds to the Earth let the Moone beeÌ„ increasing and drawing neare to hir full To the better furthering of the Gardeners trauelles he oughte afore to consider that the Garden earth be apte and good wel turned in wyth dung at a due tyme of the yeare in the increase of the moone shee occupying an apte place in the Zodiacke in agreeable aspect of Saturne and wel placed in the scite of heauen All these thus afore hande learned and wyth dilygence bestowed procure the plantes the speadier to grow and wax the bigger if afore waightie ful c. as before vttâ—red in the ninteene Chapter for otherwise this care and paynes bestowed about the seedes and plantes nothing auayleth the Gardener The yearely Almanackes doe maruellouslie helpe the Gardners in the election of tymes or sowing planting and graffing but especially in obseruing the Moone about the bestowing of plantes as when the Moone increasing occupieth Taurus and Aquarius But if it be for the setting of yong Trees let the same be done in the laste quarter of the Moone she then being in Tauro and in a coniunction with Venus for so these speedier take roote in the Earth And the Gardener planting in either Taurus and Aquarius or Virgo and Pisces must as carefullye take heede alwayes that the Moone bee not euill aspected of Saturne and Mars In the planting also of yong trees lette the same bee done from the middle of October vnto the myddle of Marche In the sowing of seedes in a well dressed earth lette the Moone runne at those tymes in Taurus Cancer Virgo Libra and Capricornus But thys dilygently learne that the seedes and Plantes increase the better if anye of these signes shall be ascending in the Eastangle and that Marse neyther beholdeth
the Ascendent nor the Moone by any aspect but shall be weakly standing in a weake place of the figure at that time Here myghte manye other rules as touchyng the particular fauoure and hyndraunce of the Starres bee vttered but that it is not my intente in thys Chapiter to be tedious in words or darke in sense For whyche cause let these few rules contente the Gardener who by exercysing of them and through an instructer may inuent other rules more particular Yet I feare mee that the common sorte of menne wyll suppose these rules to extende somewhat aboue theyr capacitie whiche for zeale I beare vnto my countrie moued mee notwythstandyng to vtter and putte suche matter into theyr heades procuryng them thereby that where the dayntinesse and valew of the seedes and plantes so requyre to request the counsayle of some skilfull that both maye make playne these preceptes and instruct them in other rules alike if neede so requireth To conclude the Gardener muste here suppose all matters on hys parte to bee fully and dulie firste prepared and well appointed and then to attende or diligently take heede to those tymes afore vttered for the workyng of the Planets and Starres in the bestowing of seedes tender plants in the earth In what space of tyme seedes committed to the Earth in the increase of the Moone commonly shoote vppe and appeare aboue grounde Chap. 22. FLorentinus a Greeke wryter of husbandrye cunninglye vttereth that the naturalnesse of the grounde the clemencie of heauen the fauoure of the weather and age of the seedes procureth that the seeds being bestowed in the grounde doe eyther speedyer or later shoote vp into plantes For whyche cause the dayntie seedes committed to the Earth in a fayre and warme daye the place hotte or lying open to the Sunne and the seedes newe doe farre speedier shoote vppe than those that beyng sowen in a contrarie season place and grounde All Seedes sowen doe euermore appeare aboue the Earthe at one certayne tyme in a manner for whyche cause the Gardener ought to haue regarde vnto the proper tymes aunswering to the bestowyng of Seedes and gathering the fruites or yeelde of eache Seedes The Spinage Rocket Basiâ— and the nauew seedes breake and appeare aboue the earth after the thirde day sowing if a warme ayre succeede The Lettuce seedes bestowed in a wel dressed Earth do breake and appeare aboue grounde by the fourth day folowing if the clemencie of ayre ayd therto the CoucuÌ„ber Cytrone seedes bestowed in y e increase of the Moone and showers of rayn falling the same or y e next day folowing procure them to appeare the fifte day after The seedes of that slghtly Herbe named the flower Amoure being sowen in the increase of the Moone and the ayre sauouring doe breake and appeare aboue the Earth by the seuenth or eyghte day folowing The seedes of the Herbe Dyll bestowed in the Earth in the increase of the Moone doe for the more part apeare by the fourth daye following The seedes of the Garden Cresses and Mustarde committed to the Earth in the increase of the Moone doe commonly appeare aboue the grounde by the fyfte day after The Leeke seedes bestowed in the ground in the Sommer time are seene aboue the Earth by the sixt day folowing but in the winter time in wel dunged Beds by the tenth day after The seedes of the herbe Rocket commytted to the grounde in the increase of the Moone appeare by the eight day folowing The seedes of all the kindes of Colewortes bestowed in well dressed Beds are euermore seene by the tenth day folowing if the colde ayre hyndereth not The seedes of the great Leekes bestowed in well dunged Beddes appeare many tymes by the ninteenth but oftner by the twentyth day folowing The Colyander seedes bestowed in well trimmed Beds and in the increase of the Moone are commonly seene aboue the earth by the xxv daye but the yong plantes later appeare if the seedes bestowed are newe The seedes of the Organie and Sauerie bestowed in lyght Earth and the Moone increasing do appeare aboue the grounde by the thirtie day folowing The Parsely seedes committed to the Earth and in the increase of the Moone do commonly breake and appeare aboue grounde by the xl day folowing although they are not many times seene before the fiftie day Thus haue I briefly vttered a true and pleasant instruction both for the age of seedes and skill of the Gardener in the sowing of them For as I haue aboue sayed the Lecke the Coucumber and Cytrone seedes doe speedye came vp being newe seedes in a contrarie maner the seeds of the Parsely Beetes Spynage Cresses Sauerie Organy Penneroyal and Colyander the elder that these are before the bestowing in the Earth the speedier the seedes breake and appeare aboue grounde The seedes in like maner of the Coucumber steeped in milke or luke warme water for a night and committed to the Earth vnder a warme ayre do farre speedier breake and appeare aboue ground The like may the Gardener conceiue to be done with the seedes of the Artichock and many other hearbes of which shal particularly be vttered in the proper places hereafter The third monthes sowing or rather in May to such dwelling far North and where snow lyeth long there this bestowing of seedes better agreeth especially where the qualitie of Sommer is knowen to be moyst But in other Countries this like by a seldome happe answereth seedes three monthes old committed to the earth in the Haruest time wyll better agree being done in hotte Countryes the Moone herein considered The Gardener in hys well trymmed Earth the tyme ayding may commit to the grounde all worthy and excellent kinde of seedes plantes flippes kernels and suche like but these for a tryal bestow in the Beds of your Garden So that in any newe kindes of seedes not assayed or proued before the Gardener maye not throughly hope that these will prosper in hys ground The seedes committed to the Earth in moyst places doe speedier shoote vp the Moone helping thaÌ„ bestowed in drie ground For whiche cause election vsed in the sowing of good ful seedes â—n either â—round much auayleth The Seedes or settes bestowed in shadowie places although the Earth be well laboured before doe rarely or very seldome prosper and yeeld their floure The plantes growen to their floure maye at that tyme after the minde of the Neapolitane Palladius Rutilius be little or nothing handled for doubt of corrupting their floure or the sooner sheading of them What care and diligence is required of euery Gardener in the plucking vp and cleere weeding away of all vnprofitable Herbes growing among the garden plantes Chap. 23. AFter the Seedes beeyng workemanly bestowed in the Beddes the Gardeners next care must bee that he diligently pull vppe and weede away all hurtfull and vnprofitable Herbes annoying the Garden plantes comming vp But about this exercise in weeding of the beddes there is a disagreement among the Writers
plants coÌ„ming vp The age also of the plantes shall greately direct the Gardener to know how much and how smallye he ought to moysten them at eache time needefull for the tender yong plantes new come vp require a lesser watering and the same gently where the Herbes more growen well ioy to be plentifully moystned with the water temperate warme And this water ought gently to be sprinkled forth on the beddes with a watering potte and by other meanes which after shall bee demonstrated that the rootes of the yong Herbes may alyke drinke in of the water and not to be cloyed through the ouer fast or too muche moysture sprinckled on them by whiche doing these the rather retaine the spirite vanquishing procured to passe through the exhalation of the Earthe For whiche cause the beddes at one instant shall not fully be watered but as the Earthe and plantes drinke in so gently sprinckle forthe the water in feeding the plantes with this moisture as by a brest or nourishing pappe whiche like handled shall greately prosper the tender plantes commyng vp where they otherwise by the hastie drownyng with water are much annoyed and put in a hazard of perishing To the water standing in the Sunne if the owner or Gardener mixt a reasonable quantitie of dung after hys discretion thys mixture no doubt will be to great purpose for as much as the same gently watered or sprinckled abrode procureth a proper nourishmente to the tender plantes and yong Herbes comming vp The cold as well as the salt water is knowen to be enimie vnto all kindes of plants yet Theophrastus reporteth that the salt water is more proper for the watering of certaine plantes than any other The common watering potte for the Garden beddes with vs hath a narrow necke bigge belly somewhat large bottome and full of little holes with a proper hole formed on the head to take in the water whiche filled full and the thombe layde on the hole to keepe in the aire may on such wise be carried in handsome manner to those places by a better helpe ayding in the turning and bearing vprighte of the bottome of this potte which needefully require watering The watering pot best to bee liked and handsomest for this turne both for the finely sprinckling forthe and easie carriage of water in the same from place to place in the Garden is that much vsed in the chiefest Gardens aboute London and in diners partes of Englande nowe knowen whose forme is after this manner the body wholly of Copper hauing a bigge bellie and narow necke a strong handle of the same mettall workemanly fastned to the bellie and head to carrie the potte if neede be to places in the Garden but for a more easinesse and quicknesse in carriage of the potte vprighte and full is an other strong ring or handle fastned artelie to the lippes of the potte much like to the Barbers waterpot carried abrode that serueth to none other turne sauing for the easie carriage of the potte full of water to needefull places but this other handle especially serueth to sprinckle forthe the water by the long pipe full of little holes on the head that some name a Pumpe whiche reacheth from the bottome vnto the head of the potte for the handsomer deliuering forth of the water the handle in the meane time guiding this long pipe of the potte vntill all the water be spent The Gardener possessing a Pump in his grounde or fast by maye with long and narrowe troughes well direct the water vnto all beddes of the Garden by the pathes betweene in watering sufficientlye the rootes of all such Herbes which require much moisture But for a playner vnderstanding of this I haue heere in the Page following demonstrated the forme to the eye The maner of watering with a Pumpe by troughes in a Garden There be some which vse to water their beddes with great Squirtes made of Tinne in drawing vp the water and setting the Squirt to the brest that by force squirted vpwarde the water in the breaking maye fall as droppes of raine on the plantes which sundrye times like squirted on the beddes doth sufficiently feede the plantes with moisture An other way better commended and the same with more ease in watering of plantes and Herbes is done by a greate vessell of Tynne formed somewhat like to a Squirte yet in the deuided partes the same differeth for that this hathe a pipe of the same mettall raised from the bottome and reaching in a manner so high as the greate pipe hauing many little holes at the imbossed toppe or ende this bigger Pipe formed after the manner of a small Pumpe at whose nether ende a thicke square plate of Tinne stricken ful of little holes workemanlie fastned into which a Pumpe staffe put for the drawing vppe and forcible sending forth of the water by thrusting downe with both hands a good distance off The vessell thus prepared in a readinesse must bee sette into a deepe vessell or tubbe of water in what place of the Garden the owner or Gardener mindeth to beginne in drawing firste the Pumpe vppe and with mightier strength thrusting it downe againe whiche so handled causeth the water to ascende and flee forthe of the pipe holes on suche heigth that in the falling the droppes come downe through the aire breaking it in forme of raine that one place being sufficiently watered the Gardener may then remoue the tubbe and vessel into another place which needeth the like watering and on such wise doing in thre or four places he shall sufficiently moisten all the beddes and bordures of the Garden That the forme of this vessell with the tubbe may the readier be conceyued beholde this figure following heere faythfully demonstrated The maner of watring with a pumpe in a tubbe The owner or Gardener enioying a Ponde with water in his Garden grounde or a ditch of water running fast by so that the same bee sweete may with an instrument of wood named of most men a skiffe sufficiently water all the Beddes of the Garden with great ease and expedition Such Plantes which come spediest forwarde through much moysture bestowed on them as the Cucumber Mellone Gourde and sundry others the Gardener may with farre greater ease and trauaile water after this manner in taking woollen clothes or Lystes and these like tongs cut sharpe at the one ende whiche lay to the botome of the potte filled with water the sharpe ende hanging forth well foure fingers deepe and the Potte leaning somewhat forwarde that these may through the continual dropping hastily speede the increase of the aboue sayde plantes so that to eache plante a like potte prepared be set which manner of doing is termed filtring At what tyme diuerse plantes sprung vppe ought to be remoued and set againe as out of one bedde or bordure into another with the breaking or sâ—ipping of sundry settes from old bodies which with skil require to be bestowed in the Earth Chap. 25. The Husbandman
or Gardener whiche woulde haue plantes growe vnto a greater bignesse than customable ought to remoue after four or fiue leaues be well come vppe and set them againe as out of one bedde bestowed into another and like from one Bordure into an other Although the owner maye at all seasons dispose plantes at hys will and pleasure yet is it better commended that all plantes bee chaunged into other Earth prepared when showers of rayne haue well moystned and softned the same The plantes also remoued and set agayne into a fatte Earthe well laboured and dressed needeth besides as Columella witnesseth no other amendemente by dung The skilful Neapolitane Palladius Rutilius in his worthy worke of Husbandry reporteth that when the Gardener hath bestowed sundrye kindes of seedes in one bedde togither whych after the dyligente watering bee so rysen that foure or fiue leaues of diuerse plantes are sprung aboue the Earth suche then after this Authours consent maye well bee remoued and set agayne into beddes workmanly prepared a certaine distance asunder being such plantes that before the setting require to hane the toppes of the leaues and endes of the rootes cut off wherby they may the freelyer grow vppe broade in Touffe or bigge in roote Those kindes of seedes which after their committing to the Earth and dyligente wateryng neede not after certaine leaues sprung vp to be remoued maye the owner or Gardener bestowe as Rutilius witnesseth in the Beddes the thynner the Moone herein remembred The worthy Columella in instructions of the Garden wylleth the owner or Gardener hauing an occasion to pull vp plantes and sette them agayne in Beddes and that the grounde the same tyme for the lacke of rayne bee ouer drye and harde to moysten and soften well the Earth a daye before with water sprinckled forth by a wateryng potte seruing onlye to that vse And certayne of these whiche require to bee sette a good distance asunder the worthy Rutilius wylleth to clippe off the toppes of the yong leaues and the endes of the rootes to cutte awaye before the bestowing agayne in Beddes workmanly prepared as lyke the Coleworte Cabedge Lettuce greate Leeke Nauewe and Rape agayne a good distaunce asunder are the Cucumber Gourde Melone Artichocke Nigella Romana and sundry otherâ— which thus placed in Beddes artly prepared may the readyer and handsomer be weeded and cherished by earth digged about so often as neede shall requyre wherby the plantes through helpe of diligent watering and furtheraunce of the Moone in the setting are after procured to increase the better and delectabler to the eye The yong settes for the Garden of pleasant delight and smell may the owner or Gardener also bestow in Bordurs at al seasons although better commended to bee done in the Spring time in breaking of the slyps or Braunches of one yeares groweth from the bodies of olde stockes and in wrything the endes aboute so to set them a good deapth into the Earth the Moone at that time drawing neare to hir chaunge and knowen to be vnder the Earth which much furthereth the settes in the sooner taking of roote But the skilfull Columella rather willeth to cleaue the ende of the Braunche or slyppe beneath into whyche clefte an Ote grayne to bee thrusted or puâ— and in y e setting deepe into the grounde to bestowt Ote graynes rounde about the same the Moone then neare to hir change rather than any dung And those yong Herbes whiche the Gardener myndeth to remoue neede not sayeth thys Columella to bee stryked aboute the rootes with any Dung but rather that the endes of theyr rootes before the setting agayne be cutte off as I aboue vttered The Marigolde Daysie Collumbine Primrose Conslippe sweete John Gilyfloures Carnations Pinckes and sundry other delectable floures are procured to increase the bigger fayrer and doubler if the owner or Gardener do often chaunge these into Beddes workmanlye prepared the Moone at those tymes consydered to bee increasyng of lyghte and that a diligence bestowed in the often watering As touching the pulling vppe of sundry dayntie Hearbes of pleasaunt sauour and that these â—o be sette agayne in Beddes orderly prepared after the course of the Moone with a care and dilygence to bee bestowed particularly on moste plantes of the Garden shall at large be vttered in the seconde parte of thys treatise where we purpose â—o iâ—treate of many laudable and weighty matters besydes The plantes which after certaine leaues spring vppe neede not to bee remoued into other Beddes are the Spynage Arache Dyll Sperage Sorrell Cheruile Parsely and dyuerse other of like sorte The laudable instructions of the wise in the gathering and preseruing of the greater number of Kitchyn Herbes and rootes with the times aptest for the like doing by aâ— floures dainty Herbes and rootes to the vse of physicke Chap. 26. THe best and worthyest rootes of Hearbes are for the more parte to be gathered in apt places when the leaues are beginning to fal off and the fruites or seedes already shedde so that the season be fayre for done in a raynie time the rootes be caused the weaker and filled wyth rude moysture The floures in like manner are to be gathered as the Borage Buglosse and al others of like sorte when they be wholly opened and before they feble except the floures of the Rose and Jacemyne whyche ought to bee gathered for the better and longer keeping before they bee much or rather but little opened The leaues and whole Herbes are to be gathered wheÌ„ these be come to their ful growth and perfection The fruites as the Melone Cucumber Cytrone and Gourde when these appeare yealowe and be come to their perfitte growth and perfection The seedes in like condition are to bee gathered when they be well ripened and before y e seeds shed on y e earth but those which remayn after the Herbes through dryed ought to be rubbed furth with the hands and kept vnto the time of sowing Here remembring that the seedes ought to bee gathered in a cleare season and in the wayne of the Moone And this for a general rule obserue that al those to be gathered as the Hearbes floures rootes fruites and seedes are to be done in a fayre and drye season and in the decrease of the Moone The Hearbes which the owner mindeth to preserue are afore to bee cleane picked and clensed and dryed in the shadowe being a place open towardes the South not moyste and free from smoake and dust These after are to be put in leather Bags rather than into Canuase the mouthes at the hanging vppe faste tyed and into wooden Boxes of the Boxe tree to the ende the Hearbes maye not lose theyr proper vertue as wee see those persons to doe whiche preserue daintie Hearbes for the winter time So that the Potecaries in my opinion are verye negligente which hang vppe the Physicke Hearbes in their open shoppes and warehouses through whiche the vertue of these not onlye breath away but the bags charged and
and as tender or rather tenderer although not so delectable and haue good regarde that the seeds be not to old for these then bring forth plaÌ„ts out of kinde of whiche the reporte goeth that seedes sowen become Rapes or Nauews Such seeds as you would to indure for sixe yeres ought to be carefullie preserued Marcus Varro willeth the Coleworte to be sowen in saltie places and when three leaues bee come vp to sifte Nyter or salte Earthe on them so fyne as the froste falling for on suche wise handled these are caused the tenderer delectabler the vertue notwithstanding preserued which like practise is confirmed in y e Greke Husbandrie of Praxamus There be some which vse Ashes in steade of Nyter or for the same cause y t eyther may kil and destroy the Canker wormes which gretly offend waste y e Coleworts in some Gardens The singular Columella reporteth that the Colewort doth come soner softe and tender in the seething and doth kepe the green color without Nyter if the roote lapped aboute with three small blades of the sea weede be againe set in the Earth The worthy Plinie willeth the Reyte or sea weede to be put vnder the stalke in setting againe and vnto the same ende the delicate and tender seething vsed so that the Colewort before y e seething be steeped a time in Oyle and salte but in the seething put in a little salte for the Nitrous and salty substance consisting in it The Coleworte may be caused both bigge and pleasaunte if thrust into a whole you set it vnto the leaues in Earthe that no parte of the stemme bee lefte bare for doubte of perishing and as the same groweth vp in heigth and the earth shrinking from it so continually raise the Earth high vp to the bodie and cut away the outwarde leaues so that no more than the top of the leaues may appeare aboue the Earth The Coleworte often weeded aboute and workemanly dunged waxeth the stronger and causeth the Coleworte to be of a greater increase and tender of leaâ—e Al the yeare through may the Coleworte be cutte seing at the yeare as aforesayde the same may be sowen yet growen to feede it ought not to be cutte The tender tops of y e yong Colewort is greatly coÌ„mended for Sallets so y t somewhat hot both oyle Salt be bestowed vpoÌ„ When raine after a drought in sommer time falleth y e owner may renew those Coleworts decaying by plucking away from theÌ„ the decayed leaues which eyther shall bâ—e drye or eaten in manye places through The Cabedge Cole or white Cabedge may be sowen thick in beds but after certaine leaues come vp remoued into wel dressed beds halfe a yarde asunder growen especially to a bigge stemme or stocke these wel ioy vnder a colde ayre in that they are caused the teÌ„derer and delectabler through sharpe frosâ—es and the heads couered with strawe are caused both rounder and whiter The wrinckled crysped and Romayne Cabedges which of nature are more tender and delicate ought to be soweÌ„ in the month of March and remoued at certaine tymes of the yeare being alwayes watered when nede requireth When the Gardener or owner at any tyme seeth that the leaues of the Coleworte either wythereth or waxeth yealowe the same then is a note of the default of water which like happening causeth the leaues to be yealowe and ful of holes or lythie and feeble or else drye through which of necessity they must feeble and die If the Husbandman or owner would haue Colewortes tender and pleasant as afore vttered let him breake off in the sâ—tting againe the outwarde leaues for the inwarde leaues in the growing will after become better of taste and pleasanter in sauoure than the outwarde leaues were The redde Colewortes naturally growe throughe the aboundaÌ„ce of hotte dung or through the watering or well moystenyng of them wyth y e Lyes of wine or else by the planting of theÌ„ in hot places where the sunne dayly shyneth a long time togither Neuer take the toppes of the Romayne crysped nor the other for your turne and vse but alwayes the thicke leaues downewarde from the heade or toppes All the sortes or kindes of Coleworts may be planted at al seasons so that the tymes and Earth be neyther to colde nor to hot When you mynde to set them againe in holes made with a Dybbel cut away the endes of the rootes least in the setting into the earth they folde or bende to the ground which harme them greatly only those of a big growth are to be set againe which although they slowly take roote yet are they caused the stronger And y e rootes of these neiâ—her desâ—â—e any softe dung nor Riuer mud to be annoynted or layed about them nor to be set in a soft earth in that they ioy prosper in a ground meanly dry although the outward leaues wyther vntil the time a sweete rayne falling recouer their strength Some water the yonger Colewortes with salt water to cause them grow tender c. as afore vttered Plinie that incomparable searcher of the matter of nature reporteth that pottes or other vessels in whiche by water daylye seethyng â— crust or parget so fast cleaueth or is baked to the sides within that the same with no scouring can be gotten off yet by seething the Colewort in this potte the cruste immediatly and with ease falleth off Athenaeus wryteth that the Coleworte ought not in any case to bee planted or sowen neare to the vyne nor the vine in like maner nigh to it for such is the great enmitie betwene these two plants as Theophrastus witnesseth that being both in one plotte togither these so hinder one another that the vine in braunches growing further rather turneth or bendeth backe agayne from the Coleworte than stretching toward it it yeldeth lesse fruite there through And the same to be true Plinie affirmeth the wine in the Butte or Hoggâ—sheade to bee corrupted both in sauoure and taste throughe the Coleworte putte into it but the wyne agayne to be restored through the leaues of the Beete steped in it By which argumeÌ„t or profe Androcides singular in knowledge as the like Plinie writeth reported that the Coleworte grealye auayleth againste drunkennesse Of whiche it is nowe a common exercise among the Egiptians that greatly loue wyne to boile y e Coleworte w t their meates y t in eating of theÌ„ like prepared they may so anoyde y e annoyance of wine after drunke Paxamus a Greke writer of Husbandry reporteth y t if any poureth a little quantitie of wine by drops into y e licour of y e Coleworte boyling y e same after seetheth no more but quailed in streÌ„gth is corrupted changed in licor By a like man may contrarie gather y t the person which would drinke plenty of wyne withoute being ouercome with the same ought to eate afore a quantity of the rawe Coleworte with meate But for this matter heare the sentence of
doth maruellousely resolue the impostumes of the pappes caused through the ranckling of Milke stayed backe by part drying vp the Milke and part by purgyng the same The Parselie eaten eyther rawe or sodden doth amend the stopping of the Lyuer prouoke Urine stayeth loosenes of the Bellie and hathe a propertie in strengthning of loose partes The Parselie also hathe the nature of pearcing for whyche cause it moueth vryne and very much preuaileth againste the stone as wel the seede as roote The Greeke Florentinus writeth in his husbandrie that the Parsely with crummes of bread applyed in the steede of a playster doth heale the Shingles but the decoction of the same drunke to breake the stone and the like to perfourme by applying outwardly To these for such hardly making water and diseased in the kidneys to helpe aswel by the leafe as by the roote The blacke spottes to restore to the proper colour if the decoction of the seedes be applyed vpon and to soften the hardnesse of the pappes by applying the leaues brused on them Plinie writeth that the brused seedes annoynted with the whyte of an Egge or the seede boyled in water and drunke to amende and helpe the kidneys and brused in colde water to profite and remoue the vlcers of the mouth this also with olde wyne ministred to breake the stone in the bladder which like doth the roote perfourme Thys profiteth giuen for the Jaundise in white wyne and to such women whose monethly courses doe not orderlye proceede or be stayed This is worthy to be noted that the rawe Parsely yeeldeth sweeter waters in the drinking as the worthye Plinie hath noted and to the mouth as Galen writeth the same pleasaunt and very delectable to the stomacke The seed taken in meate doth expel winde in the body the same brused and applyed on a foule Scabbe doth very wel clense and procureth a fayre skinne The seeds eaten doth remoue the swelling of the stomacke and profiteth the dropsie men in that the seeds drye and pearce the euil humors and consume them The Parsely profiteth those persons which haue gotten the Leprie of Fleumaticke humors It clenseth the Liuer and remoueth the payne of the Loynes and Bladder A sauce prepared of the Parselye wyth Sorrell and vyneger myxed togyther and eaten preuayleth agaynste the burnyng of a Feuer If after the drying of the Parselye rootes and beaten fynelye to pouder the same be mixed and drunke with the purest wine doth not only procure a sounde brayne and perfite memorie but purgeth the bloud The Seedes after the agreement of the best writers are principall in the causes of Phisicke the rootes next to them and the leaues as third in working The rootes Herbe and seedes of the Parsely applyed in meate and drinke do procure vrine remoue the stone of the Loynes drawe downe the reddes dissolue winde in the bodie take awaye the gripings of the bellie aswage the strangurie paine of the backe griefe of the Kidneys and bladder and swellyng of the stomacke The person bitten of a mad dog by boyling and drinking the decoction of Parsely and applying a playster made of the seedes and Herbe shal be speedily holpen The Phisicke helpes of the distilled water of Parsely THe commended time for the distilling of Parsely is in the beginning of September and that the fresh rootes and Herbe wyth the whole substance be distilled togither in Balneo Mariae The water of the Parselye drunke vnto the quantitie of three or foure ounces at a time morning and euening for thirtie or fourtie dayes togither profiteth against the stone of the kydneys and Loynes purgeth the kydneys and bladder and greatlye moueth forwarde the vrine The water drunke in the same manner helpeth digestion procureth an appetite to meate purgeth the Liuer easeth the strangurie and where so euer thys water is annoynted on the heade or bodie heares do soone after shedde What skil and diligence required in the sowing and ordering both of the Garden and wilde or running Time Chap. 11. THe Garden Time although it seeme better to agree to be placed nigh to Beehiues for the commoditie of Honye than in Gardens yet our purpose is here somewhat to write of the same in that this is so carefully bestowed in Gardens as well for the commoditie of meates as for the deeking of Garlandes There are found to be two kindes of it the one white with a wooddy or hard roote growing on little Hilles which is accompted the worthiest The other aswel in kinde as floure ▪ blacke which Actius in meates disaloweth for the same inwardly receyued lightly putrifieth and increaseth Cholericke humors The Tyme of the Garden growing bushie and full of slyppes is seene to shoote vp ▪ two handfuls high bring most sweete and delectable of sauoure and decked with a number of smal leaues bearing also purple floures tending to a whitenesse and the toppes after the fourme of Antes bending in bodie The Garden Time better cōmeth forwarde being bestowed in a leane and stony ground for which cause it neyther desireth a fatte nor dunged Earth but ioyeth to be placed in a Sunny and open place This wel ynough prospereth being bestowed in beds either in the seede or plant but this speedier cōmeth forward being only set yea this increaseth being set againe with the floures bearing as the singular Theophrastus witnesseth The owners of Hiues haue a perfitte forsight and knowledge what the increase or yeelde of Honye will bee euerie yeare by the plentiful or small number of floures growing and appearing on the Tyme about the Sommer solstice For this increaseth and yeeldeth most friendly floures for the Bees which render a coloure and sauoure to the Hony The saide Theophrastus writeth that the floure of Tyme spreade abroade is destroyed and dyeth if a big shoure of raine happen to fal The worthy Neapolitane Rutilius in his husbandrie instructeth y t the whole plant is to be rather set than sowen about the middle of April in a well laboured Earth lying open to the Sunne and that the same may prosper and come the speedier forwarde Hee willeth the owner to water the Plantes of time or to moysten them al a day with water finely sprinckled on the beddes in that the tyme so fast drincketh in If the owner or Gardener woulde possesse y e seedes he must diligently gather the floures in whiche the seedes are contained and not laboure to separate the one from the other The running Tyme ioyeth to bee set or sowen neare to springs of water as by a Wel or Ponde for on such wise bestowed in the Earth the same yeeldeth the fayrer leaues This neyther requireth a fatte nor dunged Earth but only to be bestowed in a Sunny place and ioyeth in the often remouing The running time doth many tymes proceede or come of the Basill rudely or wythout care bestowed in the Earth The Phisicke helpes both of the Garden and running Time THe Garden Tyme heateth and dryeth in the thirde degree The Tyme
eyes stayeth the perillous flixe Disenteria and strengthneth bothe the kidneyes and Bladder The iuyce gyuen in drinke helpeth burning Feuers kylleth the wormes in the Bellie and stayeth the spitting forth of bloud The iuyce bestowed in glister wise helpeth the excoriations in the bowels of women and the rawnesse of the priuie places within procured by distillations from the heade The iuyce of the Herbe is profitably annoynted on the heade wyth the oyle of Roses or oyle Olyue againste the headache caused by the heat of the sun and wounds dangered by blasting or in a furious heat this mightily mytigateth with barly meale anoynted The Hearbe to greate purpose is applyed on the Nauyll of infantes fallyng forth by crying and the Hearbe chewed or rather the iuyce boyled stayeth the griefe and loose teeth of the heade yea the iuyce eaten rawe aswageth the kernels and vlcers in the monthe and swelling of the gummes Leontinus a Greeke writer of husbandrye wryteth that the leafe of the Purselane holden vnder the tong of the person molested wyth thirst to mitygate the desire of often drinking and Plinie writeth that the iuyce to remoue wartes by annoynting the places many dayes togither and hee also wryteth that the inflamations of the pappes and Goute maye bee aswaged and healed by the iuyce of Purselane with Hony The sayde Plinie reporteth that the roote of the Herbe hanged with a threede about the necke remoueth the griefe of fall of y e Vuula which like hapned to a Judge in Italie as he writeth The Herbe Rocket heateth and moysteneth in the seconde degree the seedes and leaues are only vsed in Medicine The Herbe boyled and eaten increaseth the Sperme in the man whiche Aegineta lib. â— like witnesseth saying that the Rocket obtayneth a great vertue in heating and supposed to increase Sperme and for the same to stirre vppe a desire to the Uenereall acte besides to cause through the often eating alone a gyddinesse and payne of the heade The Rocket â—â—creaseth a strong heate for which cause the same is hurtfull to the heade but the Garden Rocket boyled with the Lettuce Beetes worketh or causeth no harme and in such maner 〈◊〉 the same encreaseth the milke in women giuing sâ—cke and Nurses The Rocket eaten and applyed in playster wise on the peâ—ten causeth vrine softneth the bellie coÌ„forteth the stomacke and helpeth digestion the iuce of Rocket myxed with an Oxe gauâ—e recouereth blacke scarres vnto a whitâ—â—sse the pymples or pushes on the face the iuyce with Hony annoynted amendeth in short time The iuyce or seede myxed wyth Hony and annoynted on the head and often vsed with meate doth kyll the Nyttes and wormes of the heade but the often vse of Rocket procureth gripings of the bellie The roote after the tender boyling brused and applyed in playster fourme on broken and brused bones doth put awaye the payne the Seede brused and drunke in wine recouereth the bytte of venemous beastes A skilful practicioner reporteth that if three leaues of the Rocket bee gathered wyth the lefte hande and after the boyling in water and Hony mixed togither takeÌ„ in drink the same sayth he maruelously auayleth against the Jaundise and hard swelling of the mylte The commended Vertues of the distilled waters of Purselane THe Herbe steÌ„me and leaues of the Purselane shred togither ought to be distilled in Balneo Mariae about the ende of May The water of Purselane drunke vnto the quaâ—tine of three ounces at a tyme both morning and euening for three or foure dayes togither amendeth the spitting vppe of bloude and the perillous flyxe Dysenteria The water drunke in like quantitie at a tyme stayeth any fluxe of the belly yea putteth away a hot and drye coughâ— â–ª thys lyke profiteth against the heate of Liuer ceasseth thyrst helpeth the plague remoueth the shortnesse of fetching breath This water also profitable to infants against heate and the wormes gyuen in drinke both morning and euening vnto the quantitie of two ounces at a time If in two ounces of water of Purselane 〈…〉 of the Seede of Psilium or fleaworte be steeped for a night and after a Spâ—nge deeped in thys y e tongue bee washed three or foure tymes a daye whyche through greate heate in a Feuer or other sicknesse is adusted and draweth to a blackenesse thys in shorte time recouereth It helpeth vnto a cooling of the inflamed bloude either drunke alone or taken in drinke and repelleth the griefes of the Bladder What skil and diligence required in the sowing and ordering of the Cheruil Smallage Taragon and Cresses Chap. 7. THe Hearbe Cheruell ioyeth to be sowen in a well dunged Earthe in the monethes of Februarie March and April sometimes in August and September to possesse the Herbe in the winter tyme and this the better prospereth thorough the often watering vntill it bee well come vp The Smalledge seedes ought to be sowen in a wel labored Earth and neare to a stone wal or thicke Hedge thys Hearbe wel ioyeth in the shadow and commeth wel vp in any ground And after this Herbe bee once bestowed in the Garden a man shall hardely weede it forth quyte and the Gardener may leaue a stemme or two to shoote vp into Seede froÌ„ yeare to yeare for this Herbe wyll indure for euer without any weeding at al. The owner may committe the seedes to the Earth after the myddle or ende of Februarie vnto the beginning of September Thys Herbe hath the like vertue and properties which the Parsely possesseth The Taragon of the Garden bearing Seede like to the Flaxe ought to bee bestowed in a wel dunged Earth and after the plants bee shotte vp neare a foote high the Gardener ought then to take vp the hole bodies and set them agayne in the selfe same Earth whych often water vntill they haue taken strong roote in the Earth The Taragon enioyeth the like properties as the Rocket and maye not be eaten a part or alone but rather with the Lettuce Purselane and such lyke Herbes The Garden Cresses is a soure Herbe in taste like to the Onyon which the Germaynes in many places do often vse in Sallets but it seemeth that the Herbe is not eaten withoute other cooling Hearbes matched with it as the Lettuce Sorrel Purselane and such like which temper the fire or burning force of the Hearbe euen as the worthye Phisition Galen hath willed it who forbad the rocket to be eaten without the Lettuce that the contrary vertue might be tempered This Herbe ioyeth to bee sowen in moyste places as by small ryuers or running courses of water Wels and springs for no other labour after the Seedes bestowed doe they require sauing a dayly watering for the plantes in the comming vppe desire oftentimes a day to be watered by little and little The Seedes of the Cresses after the minde of Rutilius bestowed in Beddes wyth the Lettuce increaseth verye well for they ioye in moysture and hate the dung And sowen in a shadowie place