Volume 1

Dictionarium rusticum, urbanicum & botanicum: or, a dictionary of husbandry, gardening, trade, commerce, and all sorts of country-affairs.

  • John Worlidge
Date:
1726
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Credit: Dictionarium rusticum, urbanicum & botanicum: or, a dictionary of husbandry, gardening, trade, commerce, and all sorts of country-affairs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the Apricock, growing in the Hedges of Spain and Italy: It yields a fine pur- plifh, bright, red Bloflom in the Spring, and is encreafed by Layers or Suckers. J U G, a fort of earthen Pot or Pitch¬ er to hold Drink, ep-c. Alfo a Coun¬ try-word for a Common, Pafture or Meadow. JUICE, is that to Plants, that Blood is to Animals; it is a liquid Sub- ftance that makes part of the Com' pofition of Plants, is communicated to other Parts, and what is neceffary to their Growth: Thefe Juices fome- times iffue out of the Plants or Trees, and are coagulated into Gum, as Myrrh, Storax, Benjamin. 6cc. And fometimes they are drawn ©ut artifi¬ cially, and ferve to .various ufes in Phy- fick, and to other purpofcs. JUJUBE-TREE, refembles a Vine, has a rough, rugged and crevi¬ ced Bark, and in fize is near as big as a Plumb-tree ; the Branches are hard, arm’d with ftrong and (harp prickles; the Leaves are oblong, and lightly indented on jthe Edges, the Flowers are pale and herbaceous, confiding of 5 Leaves handing like thofe of a Rofe. The Fruit call’d Jujubes, fucceeds the Flowers, and are in (hape like an O- live, at fird green, but as they ripen, grow white, and at laft turn red. They are us’d in Electuaries, and are to be taken in fome Liquor by thofe that are troubled with Coughs. JUKE, the fame as Ink; which fee. To JUKE or J UG, to pearch or rood, as a Hawk and other Birds do. JULY, the fifth Month of the Year in reckoning from March; whence it was at fird call’d Gjuintilis, but af¬ terwards had its Nanie chang’d in ho¬ nour of Julius C&far, the firft Empe¬ ror of Rome. Now is the general time for Hay-Making in the Country; and there no good opportunity of fair Weather is to be loft: The Head¬ lands are to be mowed; and Tri-fal¬ low where the Land requires it; ga¬ ther the Fimble or earlieft Hemp; and Flax; (till carry forth Marl, Lime and Manure: Bripg home Timber, Fuel, and other Materials; and fow Hemp- feed; If the feafon be very dry; the Watering of Hops will very much ad¬ vantage them, and make them the more fruitful; but if moid, renew and cover the Hills again with frefh Mould. As forthe Orchard andO itory Gar¬ den, and the Works to he done there¬ in, young planted Trees and Layers are to be watered; Apricocks and Beaches repruned, faving as many of the young likelieft (hoots as are well placed; for the prefent Bearers com¬ monly perifh, the new ones fucceed- ing; which are to be cut clofe and e- ven: Clear your Wall-Fruit of fuper- fluous Heads, which hinder from the Sun, but let it be done difcreetly, as alfo your Vines. It were now necef¬ fary, fefpecially while the Fruit is ei¬ ther forming, or requires filling, and before theSeafon be very dry) to give plentiful refrefhment to the Mural Fruit-Trees, pouring it leifurely into holes, made with a wooden-pointed (lake, at a competent didance from the Stem ; fo as not to touch, or wound any of the Roots; and the Stake may be left in the holes for a time, or fill the fame with Mould a- gain; thus may the Vines be fed with Blood, thatisfweet, and mingled with Water: But this and the like Sum¬ mer refreshments are to be given on¬ ly in the Morning and Evening. To¬ wards the latter end of the Month, the Vine-yards are to be vifited again, and the exuberant (hoots, at the 2d joynt above the Fruit, (topped, if not finiihed before; but yet not fo as to expofe it to the Sun without fome Umbrage : Inoculating may now al¬ fo be begun; and diligent care is alfo to be ufed to pick up the Snails from under the Leaves of Wall-Trees, they lticking commonly above the Fruit; That which is bitten mud not be pul¬ led off, for they will certainly then be¬ gin again. Cut off the Stocks of fuch Flowers ashaveddone blodoming, and cover their Roots with new fat Earth. Many