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A97368	The art of ringing. [etc. ; pt 2: Artificial fireworks; and The art of gardening] giving exact rules for ringing all sorts of plain changes and cross peals, with directions for pricking; also how to hang bells, with easie directions for every thing which necessarily belongs to that art. Also Artificial fireworks; being directions to order and make moulds, ... rockets, fisgigs, and other curiosities too tedious to mention likewise The art of gardening: giving an account of the tools, or instruments necessary therein; and also what is to be done every month in the year; as likewise how to order cattle, orchards and hop-gardens, &c. To which is added, an excellent receipt to make a valuable liquor agreeable to all constitutions. By J. White, gent.	White, John, d. 1671.	1680-1690 (1690)	Wing W1787; ESTC R220952	29,341	48

Ro●t not strike too deep into the cold Earth The upper Ground is always the best for what is deep in the Ground has not felt the He●t of the Sun nor received the sweet Moisture of Rain or Dew A● for Soils proper and all other Matters requisite to be known I refer you to peruse Meager'● Compleat English Gardener adorn'd with 24 Copper Cuts of Garden-Plars which is the most plain and easie Book extant that I know of It 's sold at the Ring in Little Britain for 4 s. 6 d. The Miscarriages and Disappointments that are met with in Planting proceed First From the wan● of Knowledge which is the best and properest sorts of Plants for Fruit and often using the worst Secondly For want of their being well order'd and managged after they are planted Thirdly Some Seasons have of late prov'd bad and spoil'd Fruit tho' the greatest Care and Skill have been made use of To remedy these Inconveniencies endeavour to find out such Gardeners as will deal faithfully by you and such as have Judgment to know the vast Difference of Fruit for there are several sorts of Fruit which some call by one N●me● a●d some by another and Mistakes of this Kind of●en cause a quite different sort to be set not proper to your Purpose being neither proper for your Soul not Exposure and seldom or never comes to M●tu●ry Nay tho' you have the best if the Soil and Exposure be not proper they may grow but will not arrive at that Perfection or M●r●●●ty which th●●e do that ●r● s●wn or planted in a proper a●d agreeable Soil heref●re et your Gardener he acquai●ted w●th the Aspect ●f the Wall you design to plan● 〈◊〉 as also to the Height and Extent of it and what sort of Earth it stands upon whether hot and dry or cold and moist that he may regulate and furnish the whole Plantation with Trees proper and necessary T●e well ordering or man●ging of Trees is to be chiefly regarded for if you plant against an old W●ll where other Trees have dy'd the Year before and put 'em in just where the others were it is g●eat Odds but your Expectation is frustrated Or if it be a new Wall if the E●th 't is set in be not good and proper tho' you fill up your Borders with good Earth it will return back again and so your Fruit will be small and have little Taste or Goodness Therefore use a proper Depth and Width with good Earth and let your Fruit-Trees be carefully Plantedand headed in their proper Times and Seasons and likewise water'd in Summer with the Borders clear'd from Weeds Let nothing be sown by them as Beans Pease c. nor yet any Flowers for all these suck away the Nourishment from them and be sure let all your Fruit Trees be well pruned and the Fruit carefully pick'd and look'd after or you 'll never obtain what you expect As to the most proper Seasons When you have used a●l your Endeavours to plant and graft according to the Nature of your Ground the various Seasons either too much Rain or too much Cold give a quite different turn to your Fruit sometimes 't will prove small sometimes watry and of little or no value nay you would scarce believe the same Trees could produce such different Fruit Therefore if when you have used the proper Means your Expectation is frustrated what must be the Fate of those who are careless and perhaps plant Pears Apricocks Peaches c. not regarding the several Aspects against the Wall which is requir'd as when they should plant against a South they do 't against a North or North-East Wall c. Likewise observe in Trees you are to plant against a Wall you do not plant 'em for D●arss for then they will not come to their due Perfection Great Allowances must be made for the Fickleness of Seasons the Diversity of Soils and Climates which are almost numberless and to the Nature of the Trees and Stock and to the way that Trees grow to the greatest Perfection these are Things that require mature Consideration and a quick Apprehension to balance the Opinions of proper Judges 'T is a great Matter to know the Nature of the several Soils their Infirmities and their proper Remedies with the Applications requir'd to invigorate exhausted Mold sweeten the foul and tainted reduce the sowre harsh stubborn dry and overmoist and dilated Earth to its genuine Temper and Constitution and what Scituations and Aspects are most adapt to the several sorts of dwarf standard and other Fruit-trees The requisite Qualifications of a good Gardener are such as these viz. He should be a middle aged Man vigorous and active one of Experience and a large Capacity Diligent Honest and Good-natur'd which are Qualifications necessary for any Person As for the Exposure of Gardens if they be of a strong Earth that is cold to be exposed to the South is best if light and hot then the East is counted best the Nor hern Aspect in England is best for Baking Fruit the Eastern Exposure is subject to the North-East Wind which withers the Leaves and new Shoots besides Eastern Wall-Fruit have little benefit of the Rain which generally comes from the West and as the Eastern Exposure is subject to North-East Winds so the Western suffers by North-West Winds in Spring and the Fruit in Autumn is often blown down by them and as all Exposures have their Advantages and Disadvantages it requires some considerable Prudence and Skill to prevent the latter FINIS THE GARDENER'S Monthly Calendar In JANUARY PLOUGH up your Pease Ground or fallow it water Meadows and Pasture drain arrable Land design'd for Pease Barley or Oats wean Calves remove Bees dung Pastures prune Fruit-trees and Vines and other Trees and bare their Roots plant Timber Trees and Coppice Wood set Quick-sets cut away Ant-hills gather your Stones take care of Ewes and Lambs geld Cattle keep your self warm drink a Glass of good White wine fasting set Beans and Pease if mild Weather and begin to graft and gather Cions for grafting sow Coll●flowers make hot Beds sow Sallads cover the choice Flowers and Plants destroy Vermine and Bull-finches and Sparrows that spoil the Heads of Fruit-trees by Lime-twigs Sh●oting c. your Bee-hives turn up and sprinkle with Wort dig weedy Hop-Gardens bleed not the 1st 2d 10th 15th or 20th except the Sign be good cleanse Trees of Moss by findging it off with a handful of Wheat or Rye Straw preserve Gilliflowers and Auricula's from too much Wet and Snow keep the Conservatory close where the Greens are housed If it freeze hard put some lighted Charcoal in the midst of the Room let in Sun shine at Noon and shut it close again as it declines the Door In FEBRUARY SET or sow all sorts of Beans Pease and other Pulse dung your Plough and Pasture Ground spreading it before the Plough the stiffer your Ground begin your arrable Land the sooner take heed of

Cold plant Quick-sets set Poplers Alders Willows and other Aquaticks sow Mustard and Hemp-seed if a mild Spring bleed not except the Sign be good on the 4th 6th or 8th Day cover the Roots of Trees and cleanse from Moss and Caterpillars set Asparagus Raddish Parsnips Carriots Onions Colliflowers Garlick plant Cabbages Potatoes Parsley Spinage and other hardy Pot herbs destroy Vermine and Bullsinches pick up Snails plant Hops and dress them half open the Passage for ●ees and remove them stow Fish-ponds water Oranges and Lemons with Water wherein Sheeps-Dung has been steeped two or three Days in the Air or Sun but let it not touch the Leaves for it will destroy them In MARCH ADry March generally produces Plenty sow Turneps Beans Barley lop graft and remove Trees and Plants take Cattle out of the Marshes and Meadows you intend to mow rowl Wheat if the Weather prove dry make an end of sowing all sorts of Pulse brew your best Beer and raise the best Brood of Poultry set Osiers and Willows c. sow March Rye sow Hemp and Flax if temperate Weather also Clover and St Foin and other French Grasses kill Moles sow white Pease graft all sort of Fruit-trees set Sage Rosemary Lavend● and Time sow Endive Succory Leeks ●addi●● Beets Farsnips Skirrits Parsley Sorrel B●gloss Borage ●hervil Lettice Onions Gar●●ck Turneps Pease Carriots Cabbages Cresses Fennel Ma●joram c. cover the Roots of Trees laid bare cover Muskmelions Plants on hot Beds with Beer-glasses 'till you remove them dress up and firing your Strawberry-beds sow Pinks Carnations c. plant all Garden Herbs and Flowers that have fibrous Roots plant Hops and dress them the ●ee● now fit keep them Morning and Night close if bad Weather you may yet remove them stake and bind up the weakest Plants against the Wind turn your Fruit in the Rooms where they lie eat Reasons and Figs and Sweetmeats APRIL A Dry April is good to fallow Ground in and a dry Season prevents VVeeds growing among Barley purge and bleed lop Ashes and set VVillows pick up Stones sow Hemp and Flax set Osiers VVillows and other Aquaticks cleanse Ditches sow Clover Saint-Foin and all French Grasses and Hays sow Marjoram Hysop Basill Thime VVinter-savory Scurvey-grass Raddish Pursley Lettuce Marrigolds Carnations c. set slips of Artichoaks Lavender Thime Rosemary set French Beans remove Shrubs and slip them after Showers gather up VVorms and Snails sow Flowers that come of See●s continue Hot Beds for Exoticks that arrive not to Perfection without them bring out of the Conservatory the tender Plants except the Orange tree which may remain till May put Tiles over your best Tulips plant Hops and pole them and bind them to the Poles open the Doors of Beehives for now they hatch and be careful of them MAY. ANgling is now in its Splendour wean Lambs kill Ivy feed your rank Corn with Sheep or mow it sow Buck-wheat late● Pease Flax and Hemp may yet be sown fallow your stiff Clays stub the Roots of Broom Fern Goss burn Bait weed Quick-sets drain Fens and wet Grounds carry out Soil and Compost turn out Calves to Grass mow Clover Grass and Saint Foin and other French Grasses take care of ●heep if wet VVeather least the Rot take them plant all sorts of VV●nter Greens set Sage and Rosemary transplant Amaranths Fl●s ●ffric●nus Nasturtium-Indicum Mirabilia Peruviana c ●rom 〈◊〉 your Hot-Beds with good rich So●l as much as may be in the Sun bring out your Oranges and Limons and other Greens give all your Houshold-plants fresh Earth at the top in place of some of the old taken away a Hand 's Depth with a Fork loosen the rest without hurting the Roots bind Hops to their Poles and make up the Hills after Rain watch Bees ready to swarm cover no longer your Cucumbers and Mellons except with Glasses sow Purslain and Lettuce JUNE IN this Month some mow Hay shear Sheep and wash them cast Mud out of Ditches c raise Swine to breed fallow VVheat Land manure your Ground sow Rape and Cole-seed and Turnip-seed weed Corn take care of Sheep if wet set Garden-beans for a latter Crop set Rosemary Thyme Marjoram and Hysop clip the Branches of Vines begin to inoculate water Trees later planted lay moist VVeed at the Roots of them destroy Ants and other Vermine as ●nails VVorms c. set Saff●on plant Gilliflowers sow Lettuce and other salleting Herbs gather Seeds that are ripe transplant bulbous Roots plant Myrrh dig Ground for a Hop Garden and bind such Hops as the VVind hath ●haken to the Poles mind your Bees that now swarm take up Anemonies Ranunculas Tulip-roots keeping them from moulding till planted again keep Seed of July Flowers that are of good Kind leting them have but few Layers to give Nourishment to keep from Venery and bleed not except thou hast great need drink VVater and ea● temperately JULY NOW mow your Hay and mow your head Lands graft Apricocks fallow your Land that wants it gather Hemp and Flax that is early reap Corn that is ripe and manure Ground sow Turnip-seed inoculate Roses and choice Fruit water young Plants ●rees and Layers prune Apri●cocks and Peaches let olitory Herbs run to ●eed sow Lettiuce Radish and Chervil graft and inoculate Jessamin and Oranges and water Hops if very dry Weather if it prove moist renew and cover the Hill still with fresh Mould Bees that swarm now are worth little and best to prevent them if you can A Swarm of Bees in May is worth a Load of Hay A Swarm of Bees in June is worth a Crown A Swarm of Bees in July is not worth a Fly Clip Box out of order after Rain sow Anemony-seeds in fine sifted rich Earth in Beds or Boxes gather early Cyclamen-seeds and sow it in Pots presently keep from Venery and bleed not without great need the 13th or 15th is said to be dangerous AUGUST LAY Compost and Soil on Barley and Wheat Land you may yet lie fallow provide good Seed and well picked against Seed-time satten Ewes and Cows get in your Harvest about the end of the Month mow Clover Saint-Foin and other French Grasses and geld Lambs forbear all manner of Worts and Meats and Drink with Spices pull up young Suckers inoculate early prune superfluous Branches and Shoots of the second Spring clip Roses that have done bearing sow Ca●bages and Colliflowers for Winte-plants and Scurvey-grass Angelica Endive Onions Spinage Turnips Marygolds Parsnips Carrots Lettuce Corn sallad and such Plants as will endure Winter pull up Garlick and ripe Onions gather olitory Seeds gather Seeds of Shrubs that are ripe now Orange-trees are budding inoculate therefore at the beginning of the Month take up Bulbous-roots and Lillies c. dry and lay them up plant some Anemony-roots earth your Pots of Auricula's transplant and divide their Roots into a rich lightsome Earth prop up your Hop-poles the Wind has blown down at the end of the Month gather Hops

likewise take Bees destroy Wasps and other Vermine and streighten the Passage to secure Bees from Robbers sow Larkseels Columbines Holly-hocks c. remove about Bartholomew-Tide Perennial Greens Jessamines Pomegranates Roses and what is obnoxious to Frosts SEPTEMBER GELD Cattle c. sow Ponds put up Boars in the Stye put Swine into the Woods amend your Fences eat ripe Fruit bleed in the 17th or 18th for Phrensy Dropsy or Falling-Evil and it preserves thee that Year beat out Hemp-seed and water Hemp gather Mast manure your Wheat-Lands before the Plough make Cyder and Perry gather your Winter-Fruit that is ripe sow Lettuce Raddishes Spinage Colliflowers Cabbages and Winter-herbs and Roots plant Strawberries out of the Woods earth up Winter-plants Sallad herbs take up Bees and straiten the Entrance of their Hives also you may remove them sow Turnips Onions transplant Artichoaks and plant Tulips and other bulbous Roots transplant fibrous Roots gather Saffron gather and dry Hops cleanse the Poles of the Hawm and lay up the Poles put your choice Plants in the Conservatory and shelter those that are tender Myrtles w●ll endure near a Month longer set Plants that will not endure the House into the Earth the Pots beneath the Surface two or three ●nches covering them with Glasses cl●athed with sweet and dry Moss on warm Days and Sunny Showers uncover them make thin Turnips when they grow too thick OCTOBER BARLEY Land lay as dry as can be Seed-time continues for 〈◊〉 water the Furrow and drain Corn Land new sown sow Aco●ns or Nuts Master or Berries for Timber Coppice and Hedges sow ease in fat warm Land and lash Quick sets wean Foles fell Sheep you will not VVinter mind your ●alting scower Ditches and Ponds use Physick moderately and Recreation feed on good Dier transplant Fruit-trees having lost their Leaves trench the stiffer Grounds Orchard● or Gardening set Fruit-stones three Inches deep the sharp end upermost and cover them with Fern or Straw plant Hops and pack up those that are dry remove Bees house your Hiacinths Tuberous set choice Tulips plaat Anemonies and Ranuncula's and cover them from the Frost and give them Air in temperate VVeather bury all sorts of bulbous Roots ●ow Carpet-works and Camomile NOVEMBER ON burn baited Lands you may still sow VVheat kill Poultry and Swine fell Coppice wood and plant Timber and Fruit-trees bunch Flax and Hemp thrash out VVheat till March least it prove musty lay Stuff and Straw in moist Places for to rot for Dung and lay Dung on Heaps destroy Ant-hills and drown Meadows that are fed low furnish your Nursery with Stocks for grafting turn Mellon Ground and mix it with rich Earth that of the last Year's Hot-beds and lay it in the Spring in Ridges trench and fit Ground for Artichoaks plant Trees that are Standards or fit for the VVall c●op Asparagus and cover it with long Dung and make Trees to plant in the Spring set and sow early Pease and Beans lay in Cellars for to transplant in the Spring Colliflowers Cabbages Turnips Parsnips and Carrots plant fibrous Roots sow Auricula-seeds cover Ranuncula's that begin to peep plant fibrous Roots Roses Alt●ea Fruitex Lilax Syringays Peonies c. if the Weather is hard quite enclose your perennial Greens and tender Plants c. preserve your Conservatory from sharp Winds if the Plants are very dry and it does not freeze refresh them sparingly with qualified Water i. e. Water mingled with Cow-dung and a little Sheeps-dung if it freezes in the Green-house keep a finall Charcoal Fire in the middle of it if a fair Day and Sun shine show them the Light and enclose them again at the Suns going off water not Sedums nor Aloes all VVinter dung Hop-gardens and mix it with store of Earth to rot against Spring stop your Bees close or House them till March. DECEMBER HOUSE Cattle cut Timber fell Coppice-wood fatten Swi●e bleed Cattle plant all Trees that shed their Leaves that are not too tender plough Land for Beans overflow Meadows a●d drain your Corn-fields plant Vines and Stocks for grafting prune and nail VVall-fruit and Standard-fruits or you may defer them six or eight VVeeks longer set all sorts of Stones and Kerne●s kill Vermine preserve Anemonies from Rain and Frost and keep your Conservatory well matted and warm if open VVeather set Ranuncula's in a Bed of rotten Thatch or Straw with good Moss above and below set Anemonies in rich lomy Earth dig a weedy Hop garden and Dung it mixing it with Earth feed weak Stocks of Bees bleed not except great need sleep from the Fire side To make a Liquour of more Value than Tea or Coffee c. TAKE a quart of Conduit Spring o● River-water boil it 6 or 7 min then put into it whilst boiling hot about 25 or 30 Leaves of Sage of Virtue ●red or common Sage and about half the quantity of Rosemary with about 12 15 or 20 Grains of Saffron let them boil in the Liquour about 6 or 7 min close stopt then you may pour it off and drink what quantity of it you think fit as a quarter or half a Pint sweeten it with white Sugar and you may eat Bread and Butter with it if you please This Liquor far exceeds Coffee Tea c. and is good against Foison resisting it all Infections and pestilential Air and ●●isom Stinks it comforts the Spirits strengthens the Brain Heart and Nerves breeds good Blood expels ●ll Humours if they off●nd the Stomach and Body It is in short a general Preservative against all Distempers especially those reigning ones of ●gue a●d curvey This I recommend for the Good of my Country without Fee or Reward FINIS