THE SCOTS GARDENER 



Set peas, beans, cabbage, asparagus, liquorish. 

 Sow parsley, beets, endive, succory, bugloss, burr- 

 age, sellery, fennell, marigold. Plant shallot, gar- 

 leeks, potatoes, skirr ets. Sow onions, lettice, cresses, 

 parsneep, beet-rave, radish, &c. And on the hot- 

 bed coleflower, and if you please, cucumber, &c. 



Slip and set physick herbes, July-flowers, and 

 other fibrous-rooted flowers. Be careful of the 

 tender plants ; the piercing colds are now on foot. 

 Turne your fruit in the room but open not yet the 

 windows. 



Catch moles, mice, snails, worms, destroy frogs' 

 spawn, &c. 



Half open passages for bees, they begin to flit ; 

 keep them close night and morning : yet you may 

 remove them. 



Garden Dishes, &c. 



Both green and housed herbes and roots : also 

 pickled, housed, and conserved fruits, with their 

 wines as in the former months. 



APRILS 



Plant holly hedges and hawthorn too, if not too 

 f oreward. Ply and sheer hedges. Nail and prune 



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