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Thofe in the Autumne, that you prematurely 

 fow , are to be watered and ihadowed the more. 

 Thofe which you low late are to be better defended 

 from the Winter till they have gotten ftrength.' 



N. 4. ^ Examples of Sowing withfome particular 

 di retiions for fome choice Vegetables. 



Bramp, 1 • Prow Mr. Parkinfon; directing skillfully the 

 ordering of Tulips in their propagation 'by feed. 



The fifft example I Hull give you out of Mr.frzr^w- 

 fdm The time (fayes he)ahd manner of Sowing Tulip- 

 feed is thus, you may not fc.v them in the Spring of 

 the year , if you hope to have any good of them , but 

 in the Autumne, or prefently after they be through 

 ripe and dry; yet if you fo.v them not until! the end 

 oiQilob. they will come forward never the worfe, 

 but rather the better: for it is often feen, that over- 

 early fowing caufeth them to fpring out of the ground 

 over-early, fo that if a flurpibring chance to follow, 

 it may goe near to fpoile all, or moil of the feed: We 

 uiually fov the fame yean feed , yet if you chance to 

 keep of your own, or have of others,fuch feed as is two 

 years old, they will thrive and doe well enough ; F f- 

 peciallyif they were ripe and well gathered: you 

 mu.il not fow them too thick , for To doing hath 'loft 

 many a Feck of feed ; for if the feed lie one upon an- 

 other , that it hath not roome upon the fprouting to 

 enter or take root in the earth , it perifheth by and 

 by ; Some life to tread down the ground v\here they 

 mean to fow their feed , and having fo^en them 

 f hereon, doe cover them over the thicknefs of a mins 

 1 humb, with fine fifted earth , and they think they 



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