THE SCOTS GARDENER 



plumes, peaches, apricocks, goosberries, currans. 

 Also wines of aples, pears, cherries, liquorish, 

 hony, &c. 



MAY 



Pull up suckers and haw about the trees. Rub off 

 unnecessary buds. Sheer or clip hedges. Prune 

 tender greens (not the resinous), bring furth the 

 housed ones refreshing and trimming them. Plant 

 all sorts of medicinal herbes. Sow all sweet ones 

 which are tender. 



Gather snails, worms, and catch moles. 



Sow lettice, cresses, purslain, turneep, radish, 

 peas, &c. Continue weeding and watering. 



Near the end watch the bees ready to swarm. 



Garden Dishes and Drinks in Season 

 Coleworts and other herbes, (being eaten with 

 contentement are better than a fatted ox without 

 it), sage (with butter), leeks, parsley, thyme, mar- 

 jorum, sorrall, spinage, &c. Scorzonera, asparagus, 

 lettice, purslain, and other sallades and pot-herbes. 

 Pickled artichocks, barberries, beet-rave, cucum- 

 bers, housed aples and pears for many uses. Early 

 cherries, strawberries, near the end. 

 Cyder, metheglin, liquorish ail, &c. 

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