Plinies Naturall Hiftorie. 



A teach and counlell us but to have our eie upon the ground, and tocafi feed intoittafluringus 

 of a certainc fupplie of dung and compoft by ovcrfpreading the ground with fuch mullockjtliat 

 foone will turne into mucke ? what doth fhecel(e(I fay) but by covering the earth in this manner 

 with leavesjiliew how carefull l"he is to defend it againll hard fr.if!s and pinching winds, and in 

 one wordj thereby putteth us in mind to make the more hail: and get our feed under mould ? As 

 for F4rri7, he-is ot the fame opinion tor Beanes alfo, and willeth us to obfetve the faid rule info*- 

 wing them at the fall of the leafe. Others are of this mind, thatthebelifowingthereofisinthe 

 full Moane. But for Lentils^ we fhould attend the laft quarter toward the chaungCj to wit,froin 

 the five and twentieth day to the thirtieth. Alfb,that Vetches mufl be fftwed at the faid age ofthe 

 Moonc : for in fo doing we fhall prefcrve fuch pulfe from the naked fnaile, Howbeit,fome others 



B there bee,that indeed would have thefe kinds of pulfe to bee fbwed at this time of the yeare and 

 age of the Moone for provender and forragc to belpent out of hand 3 marie if wee would keepe 

 thefameforfeed,then we fhoiild take the feafon of the Spring. 



Befides thofe rules and tokens above fpecified,theie is one morCjwhich Nature upon an ex- 

 traordinarie providence over us, hath prefented unto our cics after a wondeifull manner^ the 

 which Cicero exprefTcth in thefe tearmcs i 



lamverofemfervmdis^femperj^gra'VaU 

 Lentifcm^lriflicifelitAejlgrandefiere fostu: 

 Terfruges fundens^ trta trnfora monjirat arandi„ 



^ The Maflicke tree. As fhee therefore. 



All times you fee, By Natures lore. 



Is clad and richly dighr. Doth fruit thrice yearely beared 



With greene in cold. So thereby wee. 



With fruit three-fold. Know feafbns three, 

 A fairc and goodly fight. Ourland to duly earc. 



Of which three feafons, oiiels appropriate for the fowing both of Poppey andalfoofLinefeedJ 

 Butfincel have named Poppey, I will tell you what C4/i? faith as touching the fowing thereof 

 Vpon that land (quoth hee) where you meaneto fbwPoppcy, burne your winding rods 5 the 

 D cuttings alfoandtwigs of vines, which remained and were left at the pruning time -.when you 

 have burnt them, fow wild Poppey feed in the place jfor it is a fingular medicine beeing boiled 

 up to a fyrr up in honey, for to cure the maladies incident to the chawes and throat . As for the 

 garden Poppey,it hath an excellent and elfeiluallvertue to procure fleepe.Ar!d thus much con* 

 ccrningWintercorneandthe Secdnes thereof. 



GhAP. XXVI. 



flmwArk md recAfttulitm of all points ofB mbandrie : and to what out' 

 workesm the field a Hushdndmixn flmldhe employed^ refpe^ively 

 to every moneth of the yeare, 



\ Vt now to comprife under a certaine bricfc Abridgement and Breviarie^ all poin ts of Huf- 

 Jbandrie togither ; At the fame time before-named, [to wit, at the fall of the kafe] it is good 

 alfo tolay dung unto the roots oftrees^hkewife to mould and banke vines rand one work- 

 man is fufficientfdr one acre. Alfo,where the nature of die ground will bear it,the husbandman 

 fliall not doe amiffc to disbraunch and lop his tree- groves, to prune his viney ards,co hollow the 

 ground of his feminaries and nource-plots with mattockeandlpade,& drefle the mould light 5 

 to open his fluces and trenches forwaier-courfe, to drive and draine it out of the fields 5 and 

 finally, to wafti his wine- preilesfirfi, and then to fhut and lay them up drie andfafe. //m, after 

 the Calends or firll:day of Novembre,l€thimfetnoHensuponegsuntill the winter Sunflead 

 bepaft:whenthattimeiscomcandgonc,fetHenshardly, andlet them couvethirteeneegs 5 

 marry better it were all fummer long to put fo many under them: for in winter fewer will lerves 

 howbeit never under nine. 



Demccritm giveth a guefle what Winter we fliall have, by the very day of the Winter Sun- 

 flead ; for looke what weather is then and for three daies about it^ the like winter (he fuppofeth) 



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