The English improver improved; or the survey of husbandry surveyed ... / [Walter Blith].

  • Walter Blith
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[1652]
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Credit: The English improver improved; or the survey of husbandry surveyed ... / [Walter Blith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    root, and thefe fets asfoon as evertook up, put into of {ome basket with alittle mould, and pofted to the place Md | where they are tobe fet, thefooner the better; and then is | your ground being very rich, it cannot be too rich for ft this commodity , however it muft bea warm and very What ground | deep foil, and digged two or three fpade graft depth, and ts belt, & hor : d | two fhovellings alfo, and raked and laid even and level], SPFEPHS It | mh | and then by ftreight lines trode out into long beds about f uf four foot broad from one end of your work into the o- mw ther, and fet about one foot a funder every way, and if ic , © be.adry {pring they muft be kept wich watering untill ut they recover their tadeing’ wan condition; you may be- a. a giuto dig your ground in the beginng and fo allaiong - | Winter till the very day of fetting, and then you mutt « | ~ keep it. with weeding and hoing till ic have got the maf- a | erfhip of the weeds, and then ic being a weed of it felf will deftroy all other. And of k 7. Onc rod of ground is worth feaven pence arod dig- ground what : ing, or if very dry ftrong ground, eight pences but fix worth feuéng. | pence the beft ground willrequire, and you may fow i ! {ome early fallec Herbs, or Reddifh, or Onions, or fuch kf things as willbe ripe betimes , among it; the firft.year ) good weeding is the beft prefervative unto it, and in Arwhat dift- . 9 your fetting of them by aline, one goes before and lay- flance and a eth every fet inhis place, and anothér comes and with how t0 a aboard dibble made for purpofe, thruft down deep and *™ .» | openahole, and putin the fet, and for tke nourifhing of | it, in cafe any die you muft plant newinthe room of t a what decaies, for the time of the growing ofic untill it _ come to perfeétion isthree yeares, the firft yeare you may take offfome few fets here and there, but chat is fomewhat dangerous, but that year it muft be kepe with hoing a while alfo, and then the fecond year you VVhen to get may take up {ets as faft as you will, and almoftas many (tts of our | as you wil;ieaving but asyou do in the croping of an Qak °” PAnhVe one bough for the drawing up the fap out of the root be- i ing fo thick and ftrong in the ground that nothing will decay it almoft; if thou haft bur a reafonable quantity , ; : Hh then
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