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Runciual 
peason. 
Timelie 
prouision 
for fewell. 
Tll hus- 
bandrie. 
Pruning 
of trées. 
Mistle and 
Tuie. 
Lopping of 
pollengers. 
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SFanuaries husbandrie. 
Dig garden, stroy mallow, now may ye at ease, 
and set (as a daintie) thy runciuall pease.’ 
Go cut and set roses, choose aptly thy plot, 
the rootes of the yoongest are best to be got. 
In time go and bargaine, least woorser doo fall, 
for fewell, for making, for carriage and all. 
To buie at the stub is the best for the buier, 
more timelie prouision, the cheaper is fier. 
Some burneth a lode at a time in his hall, 
some neuer leaue burning til burnt they haue all. 
Some making of hauock, without any wit, 
make many poore soules without fire to sit. 
If frost doo continue, this lesson doth well, 
for comfort of cattel the fewell to fell: 
From euerie tree the superfluous bows 
now prune for thy neat therevpon to go brows.’ 
In pruning and trimming all maner of trees, 
reserue to ech cattel their properly fees. . 
If snowe doo continue, sheepe hardly that fare 
craue Mistle and Iuie for them for to spare. 
Now lop for thy fewell old pollenger growen, 
that hinder the corne or the grasse to be mowen. 
In lopping and felling, saue edder and stake, 
thine hedges as needeth to mend or to make. 
In lopping,® old Jocham, for feare of mishap, 
one bough stay vnlopped, to cherish the sap: 
The second yeere after then boldly ye may, 
for driping his fellowes, that bough cut away. 
1 «The most forward Pea is the Rogue, they are pick’d from the Hasting 
and Hotspur.” —T.R. 
2 Since the use of Turneps-Cattel need not be hard put to it in snowy 
weather as formerly.”—T.R. 
3 «* This is more proper in Underwood than Pollards, at least more in use 
at present ; few Pollards perish for want of it, but Runt-wood will.”—T.R. 
