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A06927	The second booke of the English husbandman Contayning the ordering of the kitchin-garden, and the planting of strange flowers: the breeding of all manner of cattell. Together with the cures, the feeding of cattell, the ordering both of pastures and meddow-ground: with the vse both of high-wood and vnder-wood. Whereunto is added a treatise, called Good mens recreation: contayning a discourse of the generall art of fishing, with the angle, and otherwise; and of all the hidden secrets belonging thereunto. Together vvith the choyce, ordering, breeding, and dyeting of the fighting cocke. A worke neuer written before by any author. By G.M.; English husbandman. Part 2-3	Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.; Dennys, John, d. 1609. Secrets of angling.	1614 (1614)	STC 17356; ESTC S112058	79,847	118

shall be generally very temperate and wholesome onely the Sommer subiect to moistnesse much deuision is like to fall amongst the Clergie and women shall be giuen to more laciuiousnesse then at other seasons if it fall on the Friday the yéere shall be barraine and vnwholesome for sickenesse shall rage with great violence much mortallitie shall fall amongst yong Children and both Corne and Cattell shall be scarce and of a déere reckoning if it fall on the Saturday the yéere shall be reasonably good and plentifull onely the people of the world shall be excéeding peruerse much giuen to mutinie dissention one against another Againe if the Sunne rise without impediment and shine bright and cléere vpon Christmas day the yéere will be very plentifull if it rise likewise cléere the second day in Christmas then Corne will fall in price if it rise cléere the third day in Christmas there will onely be dissention in the Church if on the fourth day it foreshewes trouble vnto yong persons if on the fift day it shewes that many good things will increase if on the sixt doubtlesse euery Garden will bring forth great plenty if on the seauenth then is much dearth and scarcitie to be feared if it shine cléere on the eyght day in Christmas then there is likely to be great store of Fish if on the ninch it will doubtles proue a good yéere for all manner of Cattell if on the tenth the yéere is likely to yéeld much cause of mourning if on the eleauenth there will fall much fogges thicke mistes and great infection will follow after Lastly if the Sunne shine cléere the twelfth day after Christmas it fore-shewes much warre and troubles with great losse and bloudshed Againe according to these former obseruations you shall vnderstand that what weather shall fall or be on the sixe and twentieth day of December the like weather shall be all the moneth of Ianuary after what shall be on the seauen and twentieth of December the like shall be all the moneth of February following what weather shall be on the eight and twentieth day of December the like weather shall be all March following what weather shall be the nine and twentieth day of December the same shall be all Aprill after what on the thirtieth the same all May what on the one and thirtieth the like all Iune following what weather shall fall on the first of Ianuary the same shall be all Iuly after what on the second of Ianuary the same all August after what on the third the same all September after what on the fourth the same all October following what on the fift the same all Nouember after and what weather shall fall on the sixt of Ianuary which is Twelft-day the same weather shall fall all December following Againe if Saint Pauls day proue fayre dry and bright it foresheweth plenty of all things the yéere following but if it be misty then it shewes great dearth of Cattell If there fall vpon that day Snow or Raine then it shewes Famine and Want of Corne but if it be windy tempestuous or if it thunder then it sheweth that great warres will follow Againe looke what quantitie of raine falleth eyther on Mary Maudlins day or on Saint Swithens day be it more or lesse the same proportion will fall for the space of forty dayes after but if these two dayes be fayre and dry all the time of Haruest will be so also Now if you will know whether Corne shall be cheape or déere take twelue principall graynes of Wheate out of the strength of the eare vpon the first day of Ianuary and when the harth of your Chimney is most hot swéepe it cleane then make a stranger lay one of those Graynes on the hot hearth then marke it well and if it leape a little Corne shall be reasonably cheape but if it leape much then Corne shall be excéeding cheape but if it lye still and mo●e not then the price of Corne shall stand and continue still for that Moneth and thus you shall vse your twelue Graines the first day of euery Moneth one after another that is to say euery Moneth one Graine and you shall know the rising and falling of Corne in euery Moneth all the yéere following If it shall thunder much the first Sunday of the New-yéere it shewes great death and mortallitie amongst learned men if it thunder the first Munday it shewes great death of women and many Eclipses of the Sunne if it thunder on the first Tuesday it shewes plenty of Corne but much Warre and dissention if it thunder on the first Wednesday it shewes mortallitie and death amongst the worst sort of people both Male and Female besides much Warre and bloudshed if it thunder on the first Thursday in the New-yéere it sheweth much plenty of Corne that will follow if it thunder on the first Friday it betokeneth the losse of great personages and men of authoritie many affrayes and murthers with much perill and danger Lastly if it thunder vpon the first Saturday in the New-yéere it foresheweth onely a generall plague and infection which shall raigne with strong violence If you shall perceiue the Summer and Spring time to fall out very moyst and rainy without winde yet in their owne natures very hot scortching or if the Southerne or Southwest-winde blow much without raine if many fogs and mists fall in the Morning and ouercome the Sunnes beames at noone also if the Sunne suffer any large Eclipse if Autumne and Winter be more foggy then moyst or cold if the Dowe or Leauen of which you mould your bread doe quickely mould and cleaue together without labour if Dogs runne madde if Birds forsake their nests if Shéepe r●t if Fennes 〈◊〉 grounds and muddy places abound with Frogges if Mud-wals bréede Swine lice or Sowes if Moales forsake the earth if the small Pocks or Meazels be ri●e and abound in the Spring time or if women generally 〈◊〉 miscarry in childe-bedde any of these are most certaine signes of much sickenesse and mortallitie that will follow the yéere after and all such signes as are directly contrarie to any of these as if the Summer and Spring doe fall out drye and windy if the South or Southwest winde bring with it euer rayne if no fogs or mists oppresse the ayre and so forth of all the rest which are before shewed are most certaine and infallible tokens of a very wholesome and healthfull yéere which will euer follow after Now for the preseruation of your health and to preuent all such sickenesses as are incident to follow in these casuall and daungerous yéeres through euery seuerall moneth in the yéere you shall obserue these few precepts First in the month of Ianuary you shall forbeare to let bloud vnlesse vpon violent extreamitie that the sig●● be excéeding good for the same you shall drinke white wine in the morning fasting rub your head with a

delicatest and strangest it hath the true shape of an Emperiall Crowne and will be of diuers colours according to the Art of the ●ar●ner In the middest of the flower you shall sée a 〈◊〉 Pearle stand in proportion colour and orientnesse li●● a true naturall Pearle onely it is of a soft liquid substance This Pearle if you shake the flower neuer so violently will not fall off neither if you let it continue neuer so long will it either encrease or diminish in ●he bignesse but remayneth all one yet if with your finger you take and wipe it away in lesse then an h●●re after you shall haue another arise in the same place and of the same bignesse This Pearle if you taste it vpon your tongue is pleasant and swéet like honey this flower when the Sunne ariseth you shall sée it looke directly to the East with the stalke bent lowe there-vnto and as the Sunne ariseth higher and higher so the flower will likewise ascend and when the Sunne is come into the Meridian or noone poynt which is directly ouer it then will it stand vpright vpon the stalke and looke directly vpward and as the Sunne declineth so will it likewise decline and at the Sunne setting looke directly to the West onely The séedes of this flower are very tender and therefore would be carefully sowen in a very rich and fertile earth well broken and manured The seasons most méete for the same is the latter end of March Aprill or May for the flowers flourish most in May Iune and Iuly As soone as it is sprung a handfull aboue the earth you shall remoue it into a fr●sh mould and that will make it flourish the brauer the roote of this flower is like an Apple or great flat Onion and therefore in the replanting of it you must be carefull to make a hole large and fitte for the same and to fire the mould gently and close about the same In the Winter it shrinketh into the earth and is hardly or not at all discerned by meanes whereof I haue seene diuers supposing it to be dead to digge vp the earth and negligently spoyle the roote but be not you of that opinion and in the Spring you shall sée it arise and flourish brauely The Dulippo is but a little short of the Crowne Emperiall in pleasantnesse and rarenesse for you may haue them of all colours whatsoeuer in such sort as was shewed you for the Lillyes Gylliflowers and other rootes they are tender at their first springing from the séede and therefore must be sowen in a fine rich mould in the warmth of the Sunne either in March Aprill or May but after they are once sprung aboue the ground they are reasonable hard and will defend themselues against most weathers the roote of this flower is shaped like a Peare with the biggest end downeward and many small thréeds at the bottome therefore you must be sure when you remooue or replant it to couer all the roote in fresh mould and let not any part of the white thereof be vncouered this flower by monethly replanting you may haue to flourish in all the Summer moneths of the yeare for in the dead of Winter it shrinketh into the ground and is hardly or not at all perceiued the stalkes of these flowers are weake therefore to support them and defend them from the shakings of the windes with little square frames of stickes will be very good 〈◊〉 ●●cessary it must be oft watred The Hyacinth is a flower more delicate to the eye then nose and is of a good strong nature for it will ●ndure any reasonable earth and may be sowne in any ●●neth of the Spring from the beginning of February till midde Iune it onely hateth tempests and stormes and therefore is commonly sowen or planted néere vnto walls or other shelter You may haue them of any colour you please as is shewed before of other flowers and in this alteration or mixture of colours their greatest glorie appeareth they will flourish all the Summer long and if they stand warme appeare very early in the Spring The Narcissus is a very curious and dainty flower and through his much variety and alteration in growing they are supposed to be of diuers kindes but it is not so for in as much as they are séene to be of diuers colours that is but the Art of the Gardner as is before exprest in other flowers and whereas some of them grow single some double and some double vpon double you shall vnderstand that such as grow single grow simply from the seede onely those which are double and no more are such as haue béene planted and replanted the small thréeds of the rootes being clipt away and nothing left about it that is superfluous and those which are double vpon double are the double plants grafted one into another This Narcissus loueth a rich warme soyle the mould being easie and light it may be sowne in any moneth of the Spring and will flourish all the Summer after Before it appeare aboue ground it would be oft watred but after it sa●●s not how little for it will defend it selfe sufficiently Not vnlike vnto this is your Daffadill of all kindes and colours and in the same earths and seasons delighteth either to be sowen or planted and will in the same manner as your Narcissus double and redouble his leaues so will your Colombine your Chesbole and almost any hollow flower whatsoeuer Many other forraigne flowers there are which grow plentifully in our Kingdome but the order of their planting and sowing differeth nothing from these which I haue already declared being the most tender and curious of all other therefore I will end this Chapter with this one caution onely that when you shall receiue any séede from any forraine Nation you shall learne as néere as you can the nature of the soyle from whence it commeth as hot moyst colde or dry it is and then comparing it with ours sowe it as néere as you can in the earth and in the seasons that are néerest to the soyle from whence it came as thus for example if it came from a clime much hotter then ours then shall you sowe it in sandie mould or other mould made warme by strength of meanure in the warmest time of the day and in those moneths of the Spring which are warmest as Aprill or May you shall let it haue the Sunne fréely all the day and at night with Mats Penthouse or other defence shield it from sharpe windes frosts or colde dewes I haue séene diuers Noblemen and Gentlemen which haue béene very curious in these dainty flowers which haue made large frames of wood with boards of twenty inches déepe standing vpon little round whéeles of wood which being made square or round according to the Masters fancie they haue filled with choyse earth such as is most proper to the flower they would haue grow and then in them sowe their