THE CULTURE OF PLANTS 



sea-holly, madder, rhuebarb, dog -mercury, all 

 which are easily increased by off -sets in the spring, 

 and require to be cut a little above ground at the 

 beginning of autumne. 



Angelica, spurg, scurvy-grass, &c. are annuals, but 

 yield seed the second year from sowing : you may 

 sow when ripe, or in the spring ; but, if you prevent 

 their seeding by cutting, they will last longer. 



Blessed -thistle, thorn -aple, tobacco, stinking- 

 arag, oak of Jerusalem, &c. yielding seed, and dying 

 the first year ; therefore sow yearly in Aprile. The 

 Virginia tobacco requires the hot-bed, the rest a 

 good fat light soil, as doth angelica. You must not 

 burie stinking-arag deep, sow it as purslain. 



There be many more, besides multitudes in the 

 fields, woods, glens, meado wes, &c. of good use,many 

 whereof you may bring into the garden, as I have 

 done. But I forbear as I have given sufficient direc- 

 tions for the kitchen-garden. I do not approve of 

 planting the clod with these brought out of the 

 fields, for it rots and turns sour, and so kills the 

 plant, albeit you may keep the clod about it till you 

 come home, but then part it off carefully ; prune 

 their fibres a little, make the holes with the trowall, 

 and plant in a co-natural earth to that of their 



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