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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    ‘wtiveredne(and wannefs, and then the firft year you may Plant your garden-with Onions, Reddithes, orany fallecherb or any thing that roots not downward 5 and lam confident it will be better too, becaufe it will prevent tome weeding, and for the fe- cond itruft be hoed and kept from weeds too, anda little the thirdy but one thing be very curious off ,-in the takingup and fudden fecting thy fers, as foon as took up fet again, but if you fetch from far, then as foonas takenup, puta littlemould and Tire ef plan- poftthem away by horfe back, and get them into the ground ting. as foon as poflibly., the delay of fetting, fpoiles many thoufand fets. The feafons of planting is in the month of Feb, and March You may ‘the fecond year take fome fets from your, own flock, but be very curiousthereof, but the third year you'may take what you pleafe, and in the taking of the Liquorifh up, the belt {ealon for which is in November and December, then there runs frony every mafter root, a runner which runs.along the o- ver part of the ground , which hath little {prouts and rootes or {ciences, which will yeeld: excellent ets, ifthey be cut 3 or four ofthem in everyfet', which may be about: or five iocheslong, which is alfo to ‘be Planted, and is 4s good.asthe crown fet, a!- fo ific be any thing a moifttime, \you may take {lips from the leaf or branches and fet them, and they fome of them will grow, but they may? be fet betwixt theother to thicken 5) left they fhould fail. | ; There is abundance of Spanih fets come over of late, One M. Waikerfells of them at Wincbeter houfe in Soutrwark London, but how good they bel am ableto fay little, but hear -various re- ports of them, “and therefore | willforbear, they are bought cheaper thar Englifh fees can be, but if they bring, forth a {mall Spanifh Liguorifh I shall not much affect them. The third particular is the profit and.advantage may be made thereby whichis very confiderable, but it isalfoiubjectco the ebbings and flowings of the marker, Ic muft be taken up. in win- When raken tets and muft befold asfoon as taken up, let it lofethe weight aken ee e ide up,and when Whichit muft needsdo , you may male of one Acre of indiffe- fotd. rent Liquorifh so or 601. and of excellent good, $0. :90.0r The advanta- ool. itisnotof fo great ufeasfome other commodities are, ‘gesthercof. and fo will not vent off in fo great parcells as others will , neither will it indure the keeping fora good market becaufe it wii dry exceedingly. CHAP The Runner yee'd: good fers. i
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