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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	cold_a	hot_a	moist_a	5,424	5	10.2024	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28324	New additions to the art of husbandry comprizing a new way of enriching meadows, destroying of moles, making tulips of any colour : with an approved way for ordering of fish and fish-ponds ... with directions for breeding and ordering all sorts of singing-birds : with remedies for their several maladies not before publickly made known.	Blagrave, Joseph, 1610-1682.	1675 (1675)	Wing B3120; ESTC R4466	80,529	144

therefore the richest Ground is best Liver-wort is a Herb that delights to grow in moist shady places as by the heads of Springs and Ponds and insides of Wells and is green all the year this Herb must be planted by some moist Wall or shady Bank where it sees very little of the Sun for any heat or dryth kills it Rosemary is a hot and dry Herb delights to grow in the Sun and near a Wall if that be planted in a cold springy place it pines away to nothing if your Ground be very cold and Rosemary subject to die mingle half your Mold with Lime and it will thrive and prosper extraordinary Observe one thing There is no Herb that grows if it doth not delight in the Sun that is good for the Heart Harts-tongue delights by High-way sides in Banks of Ditches and not in the bottoms plant him upon the Bank of some Ditch Penny-royal delights in a hot and moist place plant it where it may only have the morning Sun keep it low and suffer it not to grow into long Branches for then it usually dies in the end Take notice alwayes That what Herbs you plant order the place where you set it to be of the nature of your Plant that is thus If your Herb be hot and dry a hot and dry place in your Garden if cold and dry a cold and dry place so hot and moist and cold and moist you may know the temperature of any Herb almost by the place where you find him naturally to grow for it 's contrary to Sense and Reason that cold and moist Herbs should thrive in hot and dry places How to gather Herbs and a true way to dry them THey that intend to dry Herbs to have them good must observe their Times and Seasons Gather your Herbs where they naturally grow as your Betony it delights in Woods gather him when it begins to bud out for flowering tie them up in small Bunches and hang it cross the Lines in the Wind and Sun the quicker you dry any Herbs the far better it is gather always in a dry day and let it not hang where it can rain upon it for that will make it look black and also take away the scent when you have dryed them put them in Brown-Paper-Bags and before Winter lay them two or three hours in the Sun and that will very much refresh them hang them in a warm dry place but not too hot for then the heat will draw out the Spirits of them Here is but three things to be observed to have extraordinary good dryed Herbs Gather them in the Prime pick them clean from withered rotten Leaves and dry them quick in the Sun and Wind to preserve them keeping them neither too hot nor too cold and air them in the Sun three or four times in a Winter Thus I have in short shewed the Planting Gathering and Drying of Herbs SOME Further Additions Concerning Singing-Birds WE having spoke before of some varieties for Profit and also Pleasure in ordering of several sorts of Fruit-Trees and Gardening and a small touch of Recreation for taking of Fish and Birds but now I do intend to enter into a Discourse of Taking Preserving and Keeping all sorts of Birds which sing melodiously with ravishing sweet and pleasant Songs wherewith the Master may have his Recreation and Pleasure by hearing them sing in his Closes Hedges Parks or at his Chamber-Window or otherwise shut up in some Cages Rooms or Aviaries with Out-lets for them to take the Air made for that purpose to contain the Subject of such pleasure and delightsome Melody And that we may not omit any thing before we lay down any particular Manner or Way of taking such Birds we shall take a short view of the Nature Breeding Feeding and Diseases of the same for in my Opinion it were almost labour in vain to take Birds if to the end we may not enjoy their sweet and melodious Songs for some considerable time for without you know what Meat is agreeable to them and rightly to order them and what Diseases and Infirmities they are subject unto and what Means and Remedies are necessary to be used for their Distemperatures In the mean time I intend not here to bring in Fabulous Stories and Histories of their Original Breeding which fantastical Poets have vainly imagined and invented but resolve to rest my self contented with this strong perswasion That all Birds from the beginning of the World were miraculously created by God's Almighty Power of his own meer Will and Word whereby he created all other Creatures in the beginning of the World Of the Nightingale NOW every Man hath almost a several phansie some make choice of one Bird some of another but in my choice and opinion the Nightingal hath the superiority above all others and almost according to the judgment and consent of every one she singeth with so much variety the sweetest and melodiest of all others I need not much describe the Bird by reason she is sufficiently known to most People by reason of her plentifulness and tameness and far more kept in Italy than in any other parts of the World though in most Countries I have been they keep them little or much They appear to us at the beginning of April none as yet knowing where their Habitation is during all the Winter I have made several tryals in the beginning middle and latter end of August of several Nightingals that I have taken being so extream fat that they being turned loose could not fly forty yards and when down was not able to rise again which makes most believe that they take up their dwelling here all the Winter and think them to sleep for I have had several when fat to be three weeks and not eat one bit of meat which in some short time begins to make her Nest usually she makes it about a foot and a half or two foot above Ground either in thick Quick-set Hedges or in Beds of Nettles where old Quick-set hath been thrown together and Nettles grown through and makes it of such materials as the place affords she hath commonly young ones at the beginning of the Month of May when all the Earth is beset and spangled with the curious varieties of all odoriferous Flowers and pleasant greenness and in Groves and thick Bushes formed in the likeness of a Wilderness upon which the Sun in the morning doth cast his cool and temperate Beams from noon till the setting thereof she naturally delights to haunt cool places where small Rivolets Fountains and Brooks are accommodated with Groves Shades thick Quick-set Hedges and other well-shadowed places not far distant I told afore how I found their Nests made but some have affirmed to me That they have found them upon the Ground at the bottom of Hedges and amongst wast Grounds and some of them that have found them upon Banks that have been raised and then overgrown with thick Grass in which they have

that may a little heat and make square Holes and plant three in a Hole triangular in Mold and when you perceive them above-ground water them very well with Dung-water and they will thrive exceeding well when you see a Pompion kernel'd and grown to the bigness of a Goose Egg and the Runner shoot forward and produce another a yard beyond him lay the Runner half a foot or more in the Ground and it will shoot out Roots and nourish the other Pompion for that next the Root intercepts all the Sap from the other and in two or three days will pine to nothing observing this direction you may have nine or ten upon a Root otherwise very seldom above three I have seen nine very large ones upon a Root Now your Colly-flowers having six or seven Leaves are ready to be planted and order them thus Dig as many Holes about a foot square and deep and a yard apart and make a Hole between every four then put a shovelful or two of good rotten Dung into every Hole and mix it well together then taking up your Plants very carefully with the Mold set them in so deep that the tops of the Leaves may not be so high as the Ground and water them very well then lay a Cabbage-leaf over every hole to keep the hot Sun and cold Air from them if it be a very dry time water them often or else you will be deceived in the flowering of them How to order Goose-berries and Currans WHen you go about to plant your Goose-berry and Curran-Garden chuse out those Trees that are streight and without knots and plant them in Ground well dunged they thrive best in a sandy Mold after they have stood one year if there be any young Shoots cut them all off very close to the Body and suffer not a bushy head but let it be very thin kept and then the Sun shall ripen him and he will grow extraordinary large Order your Currans after the same manner and Rose also and your Garden shall look comely and handsome and bear far better than if they were three-times as big every two years you must refresh them with Dung if you intend to have them very large If you keep your Goose-berries and Currans to one Head the shadow of them will do no injury but you may plant any sort of Flowers or Herbs under them and they shall prosper and thrive as well as if there were no Trees standing How to Preserve and Increase all sorts of Carnations and Auriculasses SEveral People that love and delight in Flowers and those of the best sort as Carnations and Auriculasses yet through ignorance and want of care they very seldom live above two years so are almost tired and disheartned to renew their former delights and the reason is because they have not the true way of preserving and increasing them First How to preserve them It hath been an usual way to set them in several Pots and in hard Weather to remove them into the House which hath proved so troublesome and chargeable for they must have a little House on purpose that most are weary of it except them that make it their livelyhood Now observe this way and you shall have better Flowers and lose few When you have bought your Layers of the best Flowers set them in a Bed of pure Mold rooted from Horse-Dung and not Cow-Dung because it encreaseth Worms which will devour the Flowers when it draws near Winter take some short new Horse-Dung and lay it at least a foot thick all over the Bed between the Flowers and have some Earthen Pots about a foot deep with their bottoms out to stand over the Flowers to keep the Dung from them and when it is very hard cover the top of your Pot with a Tile and it will keep your Flowers from Frost and weat Weather which is the destruction of a thousand in a year when it is a fine day give them Air and Sun-shine and cover them again at Night this way shall save you a great deal of trouble to remove them into your House in hard Weather Now to increase them about July or August if you have Slips upon your Flowers take a sharp Knife and at a Knot cut it half in two let the Knot be an inch or more from the Stem then with a little hooked Stick peg it close to the Ground and cover it over with Earth like a little Mole-hill and when you perceive that the Layer hath taken Root cut it off with a sharp Knife and take it up Mold and all and plant it out and so you may encrease your Stock these great sort of Flowers will not grow with slipping as your Clove-Gilly-Flowers you must slip your Auriculasses and preserve them after the same manner as I directed for the Carnation An excellent way to recover any Horse or Cow that is stiff with Cold being Mired in a Ditch I Have seen several Beasts that have happened by some miscarriage to fall into a Ditch or Pond and having stayed some considerable time they have been so stiff as though they had been dead Now to recover these deadish stiff Limbs order him thus If he be so stiff that he is not in a capacity to go get a Cart and carry him home then give him half an ounce of Mithridate in a quart of strong Ale where a handful of Rue Angelica and Balm hath been boiled then put him into a hot Dunghil and chafe his Joints very well with the Oil of St. John's-Wort and Rue mixed together and by the next morning you shall find him recovered but keep anointing of his Legs for three or four days after and if occasion require put him another night in the Dung and give him the like quantity again How to order all Physical Herbs growing here to thrive and prosper VEry many People of all sorts have been making of your Physick-Gardens not for any great use they have made of them but most out of curiosity to see the variety of Plants which not knowing rightly to order have had the greatest part of them for want of some instructions been dead and decayed in two years time therefore I have here set down some certain approved Rules for their preservation First When you have made your Garden then consider how many sorts of Earth and the several shady places for Herbs that love it for you must consider the nature of the Herb what it delights in I shall give six or seven Examples which I hope will be sufficient for all as first For your Adder-tongue it grows in moist low Grounds and Meadows if this Herb be planted in a hot Ground it may flourish a little for the first year but you may look for it in the Meadows the next therefore plant him in some moist place of the Garden Angelica is an Herb hot and dry if you plant it in a cold moist Ground it pines away and comes not to any thing