Gentleman and gardeners kalendar, directing what is necessary to be done every month in the kitchen-garden, fruit-garden, nursery, management of forest-trees, green-house and flower-garden

Bradley was the first professor of botany at Cambridge. He was a popular botanical and horticultural writer, but not particularly well thought of by his academic colleagues, some of whom suggested that Bradley obtained the Chair of Botany at Cambridge by fraud and lost it by idleness and incompetence.

ons :a eee ed ee THE Gentleman and Gardeners DIRECTING What is neceffary to be done every Month, IN THE Management of & and WITH DIRECTIONS for the Making and Ordering To which is added, | The Defign of a sg (finely Engrav’d) after a New Manner, contriv'd purpofely for the good keeping of by Seignior of Florence. : LON | Printed for . ii Temple-Bar. 3 j ne e | | Tis ROBERT BALLE, O F Cambden-Houfe, E{q; Fextrtow of the ROYAL-SO.CTE TY. eS this Work contains. many Obfer- Wye. vations and ExxpeFSS : . ADS ime nts whic h have been made in your Curious A 3 Gardens J The Dedication. DeodicatioMe Tbe ” Poe apc. onaenroute, Gardens at Camb as NAVE wPner Bolt. 3 & PAMr <7 ths thcy cannot propery appcal iil ea ope enany Dot k under Patronage Public but ¥ ours. The W orld, Tamfare, will Le re C Cie Choi eis, have made of a Seeas it is fo y known how. great an Encourager you are of every thing which looks towards the enon li QCNCr ail Goodof your Country ; and [am perfuaded, that whoever ‘has once aright Notion of the Pleafure and Profit of a Garden, will agree with1 your Opinion af it, Thlat it produces more real Satisfaction in one Day, than all ij all the fathionablé Diverfions of the Age will do throughout the hole Courfe of a Man’s Life. If Novelty engages the greateft Part of the World, Where can we find it fo foon as in a Garpen, whichaffords us every Day: fome. new Variety to gratify our Senfes, without running the Hazard of our Health and Treafure, which are too frequently impaired* by Pleafures of other Kinds, fought after by the Generality of Mankind ? [ have therefore endeavour’d in the following Papers to AA make The Dedication. make this profittable Diverfion as plainn and eafte as poffible, (o chat L hope the meaneft Capacity may reap fome Benefit from them; and what I there {- offer to the World, will have his Advantage, that it will . appear under the Protection of pe a Gentleman, who defpifes TeVie Lood. matted as not to de/pife everything bach:is not found- Sees my firft Bndeavours upon the ed upon folid Truth. Sulcf of Planting and Gardening, I am, L hope this lutle Tratt wil meet with 91 R, s » . 1 fo nal Tour Moft Obliged Friend> Ga A Tihchhe imi j ne no le/s Favour than my former Pa pers 3 4S it contains many Matters o Fait. which awhjck yet have not been expofed toF Fact, the public publi k View, it] may pofibly tend to the Improvement of Gardens, and put many Curious Perfons upon further Dife coveries, to the Encreafe of their Pleafure R. Bradley. and The Preface. The Preface. vJ vi It is my Dejrre that every ; and. Green-Flonfe, as in bis Hop-Ground one may reap fome Advantage from what 1 do, and I have therefore laid down the following Rules, in as plain and eafie a In the Front of every Month I bave endea- and Profit. Method as poffible, fo that the meaneft ¥ Capacity may underftand them ; and if I have omitted any thing neceffary to be fet forth in [uch a Work, it is rather the Effeet of my little Leifure, than for want of a willing Mind ; but I am perfwaded the Omiffions of that Kind, are not 0 numerous, hut that they are over balanced with other Prefcriptions, which are not commonly known. My Defign in this Kalendar is to remind the Gardener of the Bufinefs he 1s to do in every Month of the Year, as well in the KatcheneGarden, Flower-Garden and Nurfery and Plantation of Foreft-Trees. of vour'd to givethe Gardener fome Account the Weather be may reasonably expect ; and tho? it may vary infome Points from what I have faid of it, yet generally it may be found to. agree with my Relation ; and I think it 1 not unreafonable that every Lover of Gare dens fhould be a little aprixd of it, feeing bow much the Bufinefs of every Month depends uponit ; for it would be improper to do fome Works in dry Weather, others in Wet, and others would be impracticable in Eroft and Snow ; befides, 10 have Jome guefs when the Seafon is moft inclinable to Tempeft, or when it is moft fubjelt to | Blights, ix The Preface. The Preface. Blights, will make us guard betimes againft confind in where the Architect has not been thofe Evils. his Fancy. Vill In the next place 1 bave carefully fet down the Pradnéts of the Garden in fuch a Manner, as will readily inform us what Herbs, Roots, Fruits and Flowers as are in Perfection at anytime of the Yearwhich I conceive will be no fmall Help to fuch as have lar ve Families, or make great Entertainments. And that there might be nothing wanting to make this Work as compleat as pofrble, I } have addedthe Defigns of a Green- Houfe, after a new Manner, chiefly contrived for the good Keeping of Exotick Plants in the Winter, which with the Affftance of Seignior Galilei, a veryskilful Architeét of Florence, is, think, no le/s beautifully adornd, than any Building I have feen, where s As to other Matters related in thi of Work, which are new, and little out the common Road of Gardening, I defire they may not be condemnd before they are try’'d ; Experience will foon fatisfie the Curious, that I have not recommended any thing as Matter of Fatt, which is not fo; and if by any Miftake of the Perfon who tries what I prefcribe, the Experiment does not juftly anfwer bis Defire, I fhall not grudge at any time to give him a more perfect Explanation of the Method he ought to take, either by Letter or otherwife, Some very Curious Gardeners, out ofa Defire (as. 1 fuppofe ) of Improving themfelves The Preface. xit kind of Flower, the Lofsof an Experiment perhaps, or a Damageto the Tree the Fruitis | torn from : and I the rather mention: this becaufe many Gentlemen, who pu Rly, bave fine Gardens, have often complain d of Month ly Directro For Ordering the Breach of good Manners in their Neigh. hours, without being capable of redreffing KITCHEN-GARDEN, the Grievance they lay under : I'm fure no And for the Management of this Body can reafonably take this amifs from FORCES T-TR E E'S, ne, fiance every one muft needs be fenfible, FANUARY. this Inadvertency has many times deftroyd a valuabl e 7} E ‘11S Monthis commonlyfrofty, Vi; and if we have any great Snow in Plant, and given Uneafinels' to a good Friend, | 28 the Courfeofthe wholeYear,it is 57. about this Time. In this Month the Thames has been three times frozen within the SpaceoffortryYears ; and it is oblervabie that the moft piercingCold reigas chiefly at ths Seafon: Inesrefore whatever is nice and curious in our Gardens; mult now be diligently look’d after, elpecially thoie Plants which are in Hot-Beds, by.taking proper Means todefend themfrom tap cold Arr, and coveritng (GG!laffes a the G Sun-fec with Litter and Mats: rm we littte ! 3%‘ore nthly DIRECTIONS Jatt, If aeu has any Cucumber or Melon Plants in his Hot- bed, he muft be careful 3 Ga. for Ordering the Kitchen-Garden. Plant Strawberries pon a moderate Hot bed, tomake them bear Fruit betimes, but to give them Sunthrough the Glaffes at eve- keep them not too tender. fromthe Injuries they aut be apt to receive from the Steam rire Bed; for the Steam of the Dungrifing in grea Grants at this upon Hot- beds, ’tis'now a ee do it, that it may not be w ry ‘Opportunity, the better to keep them Ifyou lave not yet plant Seafon, pleatupon the Glafles, and Salads ofthis Seafon. Make a Hot-bed for Alpearagus to fucceed CoOem. provements, Part Iff. ‘p. 139.] then dropping upon the tender Plants rot J hiscoe Steam may, be corrected two Ways, Firft, Byaallowing: at leaft fix Inches siick. of Earth to.cover the Dung ; and, Secondly, By contriving Frames of Woollen Cloth toflide in under the Glafles, hich will receive ene Steam that arifes in the Night, and may be drawn out and dry'd ery Morning without any: Injury to the Plants. The Damps being corrected in this Manner, the Heat of the Beds oe? be recruited ot preferved by laying hot Dung to their Sides every fifteen or twenty ys ei ire and Melon Seeds on the y Week, left by fome Accident e loft. | Salad upon declining Hothard, RadIdifh, Creffes, atid Leét- tuce, sNews thelt what Air the Seafon permit when they are come up, for ’tis lat gives them thei right Tatte. Plant [See my New Im- that made in December. If the Weather be frofty, bring in Garden 'fuch Manures as are neceflar) rich the Ground. Continue to prune large Orchard-Trees, taking awaythe luxuriant Branches clofe to the Stem} *and {uch as grow diforderly. Tow ards the latter End gather Cions for Grafts from good bearing Trees, and lay them i Way in the Earth till Grafting Seafon; or, if they are to befent to a remote Place, {tick their Ends in Clay, and bind them together with a dry Straw-band. It is now the be(t Time to removelarge Trees, if the Weather be frofly ; for then the Clod*of Earth about the Roots will remain‘entife without falling from them. In open Weather continue to ft Ground; laying ic in Ridges till you ufeit. Now alfois a2 good Time to compofe ‘arth,. by” mixing feveral Soils together of different Qualities§, B 2 -as Sand” with Clay, Monthly DIRECTIONS Jah, C lay Gc. for fuch Soils are to be coveted before Dung, for Zrees or other durable wv Plants. Give frefh Earth to your Sage, Thyme and other fweet Herbs, taking Care that their Roots are not difturbed. Uncover the Roots of Zrees that are too juxuriant, cutting off fome of their large Roots, as well to curb their too great Vir gour, as to prevent their two early Blofloming “If in the preceding Month your Straw- berries have not been drefled with frefh Earth, that Work muft be no longer delayed. Towards the End, if theWeather be open, tran{plant all forts of Timber-Trees, having firft prepared the Places for them by digging and loofening the Earth, and, if neceflary, mixing it withdifferent Soil. In wet and heavy Ground, raife Banks of Earth a convenient Height to plant your Trees upon ; but in dry Sandy Ground. that Labou r may be omitted. | In Beatie of Trees, have due regard to be Manner of the Roots, that thofe which Eurally {fpread near the Surface be not plantedtoo deep, butas near as maybe imitate Naturein this and all other Garden-Work. In planting Trees for Timberalways pre= ferve the leading or upright Shoots of the Trees, Man. for Ordering the Kitchen-Garden. 5 ‘Trees, pruning off only the Collateral Branches clofe to the Stem. Chufe rather to plant fmall Trees than thofe of a large Size; a few Years will reward your Wifdom in fo doing ; for where Trees have {tood long enough in one Soil to becomelarge and ftately, they are hardlyto be reconciled to any other, tho’ they could be tranfplanted without any Lofs of their Roots. Confider well the Soil and Expofure pro- per to each Tree you defign to plant, ‘and be not over hafty in cultivating anyparticular Tree you moft admire, without the Place be agreeable to its Nature; for ‘tis the want of fuch Confideration, which has confounded manychargeable Plantations. Sow fome Hot/pur Peas to facceed thofe fown in November; alfo fet Spanifh Beansin the open Field. Set Traps for Mice and other Vermin, which are now very bufie about your young Peafe, and thofe you have newly put into the Ground. Plant Cabba ges, Turnips, Parfnips and Carrots for Seed. Make up and enrich your Hop-£ Fiills, allowing the Space of fix Feet between th Centers ofthe auls, raifing each Bank aFoot fe higher thasth e or b about | half Paths it the Grousad lic wet t¢ Khe dry as much ifEF it be ary; themflat on the Tops, and cists 2 iv ' ahnatit AW Ue Monthly Di kEC TIONS Feb. Vat rorking. the Earth very: fing to pre- it for planting the next Month ; but if » Garden is already made, itis now on to lay Manure about the Edges ills. and to lay upon them a thia Earth. * frefh Bs of the Kitchen-Garden én January. JYARDONESare yet in great Pete rection ts preferved in Sand, which are now are, Carrots, Parfuips, Beets both | White, and Potatoes, with {ome Skir- 1 77] 7 n-Garden. for Ordering the Kitche -Ufe are MaryDry’d Herbs for Houfhold nd.dry d Mint. ,a gold- Flowers, Sweet Marjoran compofed ot Sallads for this Month are fes, Muftard, g Cref the Tops of Mzat, youn ung, Onions, Selyo Raddj(h, young, Lettuce, of Burnet and lery and Endive, the Tops we may add a Chervil; to which Mixture, r Glafles, or unde Cabbage Lettuce preferved n Lettuce, which was fome of the Dutch Brow e end of Auguft, and is now fown abroad at th eable among Sala little curl’d and very agre lad Herbs. s upon the We have Plenty of A/paragu e in December. Hot-bed made for that Parpof te ts yet. remaining in the Ground, are, a, Lurueps, Horfe- Raddifh, and fome irrots which were fown in July, cots kept dry in the Houfe, are _. ck, Shallots, Rocambole, have yet fome Artichokes in the We Houfe, which were preferv d byfetting their stalks in Sand. for boiling are Boor Cole, Savoy Sprouts ot.Dutch: and Batterfea Red, and the Raffa Cabbage and 2 le } | Cit sthe re or Sour fo! OUR and other Kitchen Ufes; bs ey, Sorrel, Chervil, Leaves of the Leeks, Thyme, Sage, Winters 7 ( / iv Cr My, . - te yy tly a A ana i by fome aré ops of Green Peafe and of A/para- Dry’ | . ? chen-Garden in Works to be done in the Kit FEBRUAR Ei . : commonly HIS Month has been e F Bie rans Rill the whol § reckoned the wetteft in we rareYear: And I have obferved, this have any lafting Froft begin at when seafon; but have taken Notice, that O January has given us a good fhare tals Month nd Snow, the Weather in rm andpleafant, and if that commonly wa ng ble Time for planti happen, ‘tis an admira Net = 7 Ti « Lo % OF OrnaofCrTrees, either forFruit, Timber, picatee ment, if thofe Works were not com : € snip }7c VA b. A= 7 in September and October. . ; 3 Vente her arc {} 2 2 tT 34 4 ++} rare { Moxthy DIRECTIONS. jet FlmSets fhould now be gathered from the Roots of large Trees, and planted in Nurfes ry-Beds, and young Plantations provided of all forts of Fore/?-Trees and Shrubs, which opagated fromSlips or Layers. scorns of the Jlex, Cork-Tree and Ex- glifh Oak, Chefnuts and Walnuts, and fow the Samera of the Elm and Bay-Berries, all which comeupthefirft Year. Sow the Maft of the Afb, Beech, and ther Timber-Trees as has beem prepae ind, for elfe they will be two 1 ound ; as alfo the Berries of Holly, and fuch. Everprepared as above. What! here mention concerning the preing of Seeds in Sand, is the commonPra- jardeners; but I am informed et u a pwuriery Nurf uy -Man at Kenfing~ n9° Vd XN . Dif o£ y and Yew Berrie Vals ars old, and had not which came up f Feb. for Ordering the Kiichen-Garden. 9 Another has told me, that Hoy. Berries being gathered and laid in a large Heap in the Houfe, without ftirring them till Spring, then thofe which lie in the middle of the Heap will not only be void of their Pulp or fiefhy Part, but be fprouted, and then being immediately fown, will come up ina Month's Time. ‘This may happen perhaps from the Ferment which the Berries would raife when they began to fweat; and it is from the fame Reafon I have recommended the Tryal of the Bran and Water, in: my New /mprovements, Part II. p. 10. whichfee. Prune and nail your 4pricots and other Stone-Fruit at the beginning of the Month, and laft of all your Nectarine. About the middle of the Month fow Beans, Peafe, Parfley, Spinach, Carrots, Parf- nips, fome Turneps, Scorzanera, Onions, Leeks, fome of the Dutch Brown Lettuce and Radifbes. SowSkirrets in light, rich Ground, where they may have fome Moifture. It is held by fome, that when their Roots are about two Inches long, they fhould be tranfplanted to make themlarge. chlI have done with 1of acquainted with ning it, til he told me the Rea- ich Is, that the 4// will frequently . fu withane } tae 0 Veare Years withou t letting them t timer » hat Age they are prepared of tn ornnu bY Bt vy woe nniH " ~' ? A ois WilNhOugt any Artific oe A ® ehoe Another Plant Garlick, Shalots, and Rocambole, for Increafe in light Ground. Set Potatoes and Ferufalem Artichokes in heavy Ground. Tranfplant young Cabbage Plants for a Crop, if that Work was not done in the preeeding Month. Sow 10 Monthy DIRECTIONS Feb, SowAfparagusSceds inthe natural Ground, Towards the End. begin to graft in the Cleft, Apples, Pears; and Cherries. Renewthe Heat of your Hot-beds with freth Dung, and continue to fow Cucumbers and Melons every ten Days ger from the Weather. for fear of Dan ; Nowalfo make a Hot-bed for all forts of | Annual Seeds, except African and French Marygolds, which may remain’ unfown till the next Month, otherwife they would grow too big for: the Frames before the Weathet would permit them to ftand abroad, Sow fome of the Batterfea Kiduey Béans, Feb. cover’d about eight Inches thick with Earth, and defended from the Weather with Mats fupported upon Hoops, for Frames and Glafles would draw the Carrots too much into Leaf. Sow fome Collyflower Seeds towards the middle of the Month upon fome: declining Hotrbed. Towards the End fow Parfley in the na- tural Ground. Make Plantations of Strawberries, Rasberries, Goofeberries, Currants and Rofes. Plant yet Vines and Figs, Honeyfuckles, Fellamines, &e. Produit of the Kitchen-Garden in February. E have yet fome Chardones. raife fome Parflane upon Hot-beds. Nowit is a‘proper Timte to make a Mufh- Strawor Litter, at leaft emght- or ten Inches thick; (See Directions for this Work in my New Improvements, Part lll. p. 120.) and be {ure to waterit well three times in a Week; till the Ma/brooms begin to {pring, which will be intwo Months time after making the Bed, > Dung is not cover d too thick with Earth: lant Hops this Month, feven Plants on ll, obferving that each Set or Plant more than two Joints, for if they ater Number, the Shoots r¥ Carrots begin to fwell: This Bed muft be upon & Hot- bed, to have Beans in April, and room Bed of long Dung, covering it with for Ordering the Kitchen Garden. We haveftill fome Turneps, Parfnips, \ Beets, Potatoes, Skirrets and Scorzonera, with fome young Carrots fown in Fuly. Afparagus in Hot-beds now muchbetter than in the preceding Month. The Herbs for Kitchen Ufe are thofe men- tioned in Fanuary. Herbs for boiling are Red Cabbages, Sprouts of Cabbages, and fome few of the Savoy CabLages,Spinach,andthe Leaves of the WhiteBeet. Sallads of this Monthconfift of the fame {mall Herbs as in the preceding, but we may now ld Water-Creffes and blanch’d Daza- ada¢ } delion. Carrots, which maybé 1¢ Radi fhes will be fit to ¥¢ quite gone before the Carrots The Cucumbers fown in Offober, if they have withftood the Rigour of the January } tha { tha : a Frofts, . itl 12 Monthly DIRECTIONS War, Frofts, will towards the End yield us fome Fruit, and the Xiduey- Beans which were fown at the dame time, will now afford us Plenty of Beans. Some Cherries are commonly ripe ‘this Month, at Mr. Jobn Miler’s,a curious NurferyMan at North-End near Fulham, and green Apricots may be now found at the fame agar. for Oraering the Kitchen: Garden. 13 fhould be carefully water’d, altho’ we have y many brisk Showers at this time, tor the t reach not deep in the Ground; and we mut obferve, that whatever we water now, mutt be in the Morning,for elfe the Frofts coming too fuddenly upon the new waterd: Plants, would chill their Roots. if we have omitted any of the Works di- rected to be done in the former: Months, they mutt not any longer be delay’d, for by the End of this Month our Garden ought to be compleatly crop’d. Workss toto bebe done done inin Wit : the Kitchen-Garden in HARCZH. * { HIS Monthis generally attended with white Frofts in the Nig fudde Storms of Hail and Rain, Ba Mad irom the Eaft and the North-Eaft are now very burtful to our blofloming Fruit- Trees The Showers which fall at- this Staton wound and bruife fuch tender Plants as {tand abroad, fo that a Gardener mutt now be ve! ry watchful to defend and {helter his Treed ndid PPlant‘s from fron theeIni urie Injur N iess of af the Weat her } Pie oun oun has has now now orea r t Powe Day r. over J grea Plants He when it is not interrupted by Storms: the Bier cias Wintec eaeand the pera tae Concurring with the hot vivel 2€2ams ‘re WHic 8 n ie are Sh : now refreq soc uent k. a fcor {ec ch and 1b panes mcotsne.fycu | ants as now begin tc ‘Prout, umefs they be happily guar dIOuNnG nlantced ed. All you ng plan ted Herbs or os Trees in . “UCT OiIOOTS O uch ICS a@§ fhould Continue to (ow Raddifh, and Sélecta, Imperial and Cabbage Lettuce among all the Crops you put into the Ground, forthey will cometo Perfection, and be gather’d before the other Rootsand Herbs cover the Ground. ts Sow Scorzonera, Salcifie, and flip Skzrre of the laft Year, leaving only the tender Fibres, and not any of the greater Roots about the Plants. Sow Peaje and Beans. Make Plantations of Mint, Balm, Pennyryal, Thyme, Savory, Sage, Tanzey, Rue, and other durable Herbs for Houfhold Ule, except Lavender and Rofemary, which will grow betterif they are fet in April. Plant out fome Colyflower Plants to fuc- ceed thofe planted in Autumn. Towards the Middle rake and drefs your s A{paragus-Beds, for early in April the Bud will begin to appear above Ground, and therefore War, Monthly DIRECTIONS 14 therefore to delay this Worktill the End of March, many Buds mutt then neceffarily be broken off. To make new Plantations of A/paragusin the natural Ground, firft trench the Earth, and lay. a good Coat of Dung at the Bot tom of the Trench, and when the whole Piece is thus prepared and levelled, begin your Plantation, allowing ten Inches Di- fiance between the Afparagas Plants, and four Lines of Plants in each Bed, leaving two Feet between the Beds for the Alleys, and then fow the whole with Oxzons. Sow young Sa#ads in fome warm Placé, adding to the fmall Herbs of the laft Month Spinach, Rape and Surrel. Sow Cabbages and Savoys for a Wintet Crop, and fomeSedlery for early blanching: Sow alfo fome Collyflowers on a declining Hot-bed. Sow Chardones to RA tranfplant the next Month. Now drefs the Artichokes, leaving only wT : eee lett Aes «dentin faaye iree or four Suckers on each ftrong Roof; and flipping off tl > refi fortranfplanting q +} tl C making good the Defects in the old Planta’ tic i. Refreth the Cucumber and Melon Beds with hot Dung, and fownowfora full Crop. h QO yy I ; : : Tranfplane Lettuce Ccfor cabbaging and to Ce fiand for Seed. fland fre the Vioplanted Trees, to defend themfrom n. lence of the Winds which nowreig We may yet plant Timber-Trees of all they forts, watering them well as:foon as are planted. Sow the Seeds.of the Scotch Fir, a Plant irable much neglected in England, but of adm ive beft Ufe and quick Growth: They will thr re moft of in {andySoil,fomewhat wet,fuch asa r the our Heaths in Exg/and. The Roots run nea ntSurface, therefore they will not bear pla ina ing deep. If any affirm they will grow per{tif Soil, }acknowledge it ; but I am and fuaded, whoever has feen them in one t the the other forts of Soil, will allow tha Ground I direét for them, is at leaft one third more Advantage inthe Growth of the Tree than the other. Sow Leeks, Beets, nil, Dill, Burnet and S Sow Endive very thin, or it will run to j = | Oced. nr ~ Carefully flake up all new planted 15 for Ordering the Kitchen-Garden. Wat. ae A Div ae mt n! pant j Ve ee ee tne Root s 5 TT a of Jarrazgo2, and eats tran{- anart Ilmarchec ss cet 4 by; mt eignt iWCes apart. Slins about he slips the An) . fa } MaKe 1 tat " oC of Dp} OUTS 3 lantations OF TALIA f hives Uo94UCs. i, Elathen oun tae as > rnd 1OW upon tne mot-coe oe laftertium, French and Ajri- can Marygolds. Sow Marygolds in the natural Ground. Be diligent this’ Month” in’ deftroying Weeds before they run'to Seed; for fhould their Seeds once thed in the Garden, it is more Dat Monthly DIRECTIONS more than a Summer’s Work to get them 16 out. Id the Hop-Garden prune all the ftrong Leaders to two Joints apiece, and take away all the young Shootsclofe to the Roots, leavs ing only thofe which {hoot from the old Wyars. Products of thé Kitchen-Garder in March. HIS Month affords us verylittle Vari ety of Herbs for the Table, for now the Winter-Stores are almoft fpent, and the Roots which have been hitherto ufeful; aré hard and ftringy; and befides, an under. ftanding Gardener muft at this Seafon new crop his Ground with Herbs and Roots fot the fucceeding Months. The only Herbs nowgood, are Sprouts of Cabbages and fome of t | 1e } Winter-Spinach, The Roots are Carrots fownin Fuly, Rad: difbes of Michaelmas, {ome few Turseps that were fown late, and Red Beets. In the Hot-beds we have Xiduey-Beans and fome Peafe, befides Cucumbers upon the Plants raifed in Jauuary. _ Afparagas upon the Hot-bed made in Fee brary is now muchbetter tafted than what we cut in the preceding Months. Towards theEnd, the Raddifbes fown up- on the Hot-bed in February will be fit to draw. We t Sort, for Ordering the Kitchen-Garden, 17 We may now add to the Sa//ads of the foregoing Month fome Parflane, with young Tops of Zarragon, of which a few Leaves will ferve to give a Relith to a large Sallad. Hop Buds or Tops are now gathered to boil, and are not muchinferiour to A/para- gus. Ripe Cherries and Green Apricots may now be had in great Plenty at Mr. Mz//ez’s beforementioned. At the End we have fome Scarlet Strawberries ripe upon the Hot-beds, and allo fome few Beans, if we -have had Courage enough to forward them byartificial Heats, but that Trouble and Expence rarely turns to account. The Stalks and tender Sprouts. of Zurneps running to Seed are now excellent after the Strings are taken from them; thefe in the Market are called Lupines, and are generally efteem‘done ofthe beft boiled Sallads. OPP EARS CMIOIPRIA SSF ego™.S, Zoe RS Works to be done in. the Kitchen-Garden in AP ROR, THE Weather is commonlyunfettled ia this Month, the Nights frequently frofty, and blighting Winds from the Eaft are yet to be expected. The new Moon of this Month, which the Freach call the Ruddy G Moon, Monthy DIRECTIONS a 18 [pith e Moon, ‘stor the {\ ractive and Viol , . 5 the ene Spon any7 Eloafe Greeus of actsey yet expofe Exoticks to the en ‘Air, or depend £00 warm Day much upon thefair Bremite of a oe bie : If the Weather be dry and windy, flake up all new planted Trees, if that Work was negle@ted in the preceding Month ;_ and water them a once inten Days; and ience ae ene from the Winds, vour fpired S for the y are cally In ary Weat ney Beans, each Line two Foot for nearer than that Nowalfo fet Rosceval cs cut down every other R three Inches of the Root, a duce a good C rop in Ai ecumn. iveader, ef cally aftre Scie in the laft Month, we mayyet plamt he [It is now our Gardens begin to be overrun with Ssails and Slugs, to the great Deftruction of our young koic Wall-Fruit and the Greens of the A:tchen-Garden, Many Ways have been prefcrib’d to remedy stip Evil, as to lay Tobacco-Duft, Soot, Saw Doft, or Barley-Chaff round about the Seng of Plants, which indeed will keep them off for a little Time, but the firft Rain that falls gives them full Liberty to pafs over thefe Fortifications; neither are we more fuccefs- ful in putting Tar upon the Stems of Trees, for a few warm Days drys it up: But the moft ingenious Contrivance to keepoff thefe deftructive Vermin that I have ever met with, I learnt gen a curiousGentleman of Hertfordfbiire, which is fo cheap and eafy, ang fo much toaie fe, that I believe few Lovers of Gardens will be without it. Tree, two or three Rounds of Line or Rope made « teeth Ffair, {uch as are commonly ufeed to {c ) full of Stul IHair, that neither 3lol 1 upon; thefe are ; Points of the a Snail orSlug can pais Death; fo that the Head of the Tree, ifit : plant Cuttings ! 19 over them without woundingtl1em(elves to Now is the beft es Thyme, Sage, &c. for Ordering the Kitchen Garden. Je directs to wrap about the Stém of a {tance, and wa Beans Crops; alfo where Beans havebe | Qpul. laft andard or Dwarf, can receive no Harm if we fecure the Bottom - of time in fome expofed to tht un to Seed. It ofe€m 290.0 Monthly DIRECTIONS Apart, Stem of the Tree, we muft faften one of thefe Ropes clofe to the Wall, fo as to enclofe all the Branches of the Tree, and allow pet. for Ordering the Kitchen-Garden, this Month. ry Note, All fmall Seeds muft be fown {hallow in the Earth, and the larger kinds deeper in Proportion ; and again, as Space enough to nail up the Summer-Shoots the Ground is more light and fandy, every Figure the firft, where we may find that the fort muft be fown deeper than in heavy Soils. within the Compafs of the Hair-Line, as tn Line is fo difpofed that as the Tree increafes in Bignefs, and fpreads more and more upon the Wall, the fame Rope maybe altered {0 as to ferve for feveral Years. In E/paliers of Fruit-Trees it is only necef- fary to wrap thefe Hair-Lines about the Stems of Trees near the Roots, and about the Bottom of every Stake, which Work fhould be done in the Winter, when the Snails are Jaid up in their clofe Quarters. To preferve CoM,flower Plants, or other tender Herbs, which are liable to be deftroyed by Slugs or Snails, the Hair-Lines may be faftned about the Edges of the Beds they are planted in. It is to be remark’d, that thefe Lines are beft for this Ufe when the Hair they are made of is very fhort, for then they will be full of Points, and compleatly arm’d againft any Attempts of thefe murdering Vermin. Sow Cabbage- Lettuce to fucceed thofe fown in the former Month. The Ground is now in good Order to receive the Seeds of Zhyme, and fuch-like Aromatick Herbs; and this Work fhould hot be delay’d longer than the laft Week in this Sow Purflane upon the natural Ground, and towards thelatter End fowlikewifle fome Seeds of the Na/flertium Ladicum,'{ the Hotbeds are not alreadyprovided with young Plants. Sow{mall SaZads in open Borders, as Creffes, Spinach, Muftard, Turnep, or Rape and Raddifh, We may continue to make Plantations of Strawberries till the Middle of the Month, placing the Plants about eight or ten Inches apart. If the Weather be moift, it is not yet too late to make Layers of Feffamine, Honeyfuckle, Rofes, and fuchlike Shrubs. Sow Se/ery upon the natural Ground, or upon fome decay’d Hot-bed, to fucceed that {own in March, Sow nowSpanifh Chardones in the natural Ground for a fecond Crop, making Holes for the Seeds about five or fix Foot Diftance ; put four or five Seeds in each Hole, and when they are come up, leave growing only one tlrong Plant in a Hole for blanching. Towards the End hough Carrots, Parfaips and Onions, jeaving the two firft about five or fix Inches diftant from one another, and the latter about three or four. 3.3 Make forthly DiRECTIONS pil, Qpril. for Ordering the Kitchen-Garden. Aake Ridges for Cacumtbers and Melons for a full Crop, and prune off the fuperfluous Branches from the Me/on Plants upon the forward Ridge: But do this carefu ily with- out lifting up the Runners from dhe Ground } for the leaft Difturbance of that kind ts apt Produits of the Month of April. ORboiled SaZads we have young Carrots fown in the foregoing Autumn, as alfo ter Saini: We have yet fome Sprouts he to bruife the tender Branches, whichoften ends in the Lois of the wholePlant. Near the Beginning fet up the Poles in the Hiep-Garden, placing Vf LA three or four in h Hole, as the Strength of the Plants re:me time lead the Wyars, of . Fe oa. Law Dalwn p-Vines to the Poles, +eand, 7 23 old St ems05 Cabbages and Colege-Plants, or RadzfhOF B oiling: Greens are ny . what is | are not tobe defpifed: prefer ‘able to all, there is Afparagus mow in great lenty upon he natural Bev making its firft Appear - -in the Gardens near London about the uird or fourthof this Month, and in thofe iiftance with ' >i t “ Imnred idtitOCu 4 7910 {os f ah Parts of Devonjbire lying near the Sea, above 1 Fortnight {(coner ; which I mention: here, we maythe better judge how much a ’s Difference South or North between ind another, will forward or keep Growth of a Plant. We have now olflowers, which begin to may nowexpe the bearing as thes often will do if the a mild; they eat very well. abovetheFruits ints Which areé and fomeofthe Dutch Brown Lettuce, which a proper ifbes are nowveryplentiful, has ftood the Winter, will cabbage towards the End. The fmall Herbs for Sal/ads upon the na- ture. Strawberrzes while they fac ribWear deseaatiries a Week,1 17 if or three times this-muft be done 1A tural Ground are, Creffes, Raddifh, Turuep, Spinach, and Muftard; and the other Herbs proper to mix with them, are, Burnet, TarC4 Produits ragon, 24 MonhyDIRECTIONS. Mp ay. for Ordering the Kitchen-Garden, 25 ragon,and young Onions. Upon the Hot-beds we have nowalfo fome young Purflane. About the End the Xiduey Beans, which were fown the middle of Fedruary upon a Hot-bed, will be fit to gather. We have Plenty of Cucumbers upon the Hot-beds made for that Purpofe about the Beginning of February, and Mufbrooms upon the Beds made about the fame time. We have now Scallions and Leeks, and {weet Herbs growing of all forts, exce pt chat which is called the Summer Sweet Marjoran. Riipe Cherries and ee ereen Apricots are now in Plenty at Mr. MiZet’s aforefaid, and > Strawberries upon thole Plants which ifted with a Hot-bed. Works to be done in the Kitchen-Garden in MAT. LTHOin this Month the Seafon ts fi \ fo far advanced as to bring many Plants to their higheft Perfeétion, and Nature feems_to be dreft in her Wedding Garment, the Garden is yet fubje& to many Hazards from frofty Nights and cold Blafts, vhich oftentimes happen in the firft fiftee0 Days. It is not many Years fince a great Snowfell in the firft Week of this Month; and though Snows are uncommonat this Seaton, yet the Showers which frequently io| towards the Beginning, are often mixed ith Hail, which | account the moft pernicious Off {pring of the Weather, with reipect to Vegetables, as their Leaves and young Fruit are then tender, and very fubje& to bruife byeverylittle Accident of that kind, It has been a Rule among the Gardeners, a- bout the middle of thisMonth to expofe or bring abroadtheir Exotick Plants, and fuch tender Shrubs as the ‘Uncertainty of the Veather in the preceding Monthsconfined within Doors; and I have obferv’d. we {feldom have any Weather fo unfavourable apay. for Ordering the Kitchen-Garden. 27 tream Fibres of the Roots, which are the perc Te what I the Worksof the laft hem|no longer than , es lor now the Seafon at a Dayloft iert to only Parts of a Plant by which it receives its Nourifhment, and thefe Fibres in Me/on and Cucumber Plants alwvays run as far as the Branches: The Inconveniencies which at- tend the wetting the Leaves or Stems ofthefe ire either, that they rot or mould by lying long upon them, or elfe they ilded if the Sun fhines hot. Fran,or Ma ol. lon Ridges, as well as thofe wrhi ch were h; it is alfo advifable to traordinary | pinch ou the Tops5 of fuch Runners as have Fruit upon them, leaving three orfour Joints al vays beyond the Fruit, and particularly ta ng Care that every Fruit be fufficiently th 1 with Lear for to expofe them imall, fpoils their lon is alsa forty e of its fetting and riibe that Fruit to be x the timeofits rfected we canSun for f| tafted. they float the Aldges, than pour rear the Stemss r for this Ufe fhould be as fimple as poflible, for all Waters prepared with hot Dungsbreed Infeéts among the Plants, which often deftroy them. Pond-Water, which lies expofed to tl re Sun, | take to be the beft, nd even that ought to be given but in (mall QDuantities to a Me/on, for much Wet fpoils its Flavour, but Cucumbers are ereat Lovers of it. The Beginning of thisMonth fow Cucumbers in the natural Ground, about twelve Seeds in each Hole, for fear of Difappoint- ments, but leave onlyfour or five when they are comeup. Let the Earth be frefh and well work’d with a Spade, rather light than other- wi vile, for in itt Soil the Fruit ts apt to fuffer >Worms. This fowingwill afford us Pleny of Fruit in ‘uly, . well for Pickling as to eattries Sallads, a Plantation of this Kind producing near ¢\wice as muchFruit as one 1¢ Quantity of Groundforced with o Dun + feed the ex- avets cream Sow Monthly DIRECTIONS Bay, Sow fome of the Dutch Brown Lettuce to be planted out the next Month for Cabba- ging. We may alfo replant Jmperial and Si- lefia Lettuce, if we have any large enough for that Purpofe. If any of the Jmperial Lets tuces are Cabbaged, cut the Tops of them crofs-wife, that the Flower-Stems may have Liberty to fhoot in order for Seeding. Sow yet fome Radifhes. Tranfplant Coll)flower Plants, and make yourfirft Drills for Sed/ery, if your Plants are large enough. Sow Ronceval Peafe, and towards the End Earth up and ftake thofe which are fown in the former Month. We maynow {owfome Endive very thin, to be blanched without tran{planting. Sow Purflane upon the natural Ground, and Cabbages. Gather carefully the Nefts of Carerpiders and other Infe&s which annoy your Trees, and prune off all crumpl’d Leaves and Twigs, lor they harbour the worft of Vermin, al- bough they are fcarce vifible, without the Kelp of Microfcopes: This Work is the more lary, becaufe every Infe@ increafes Yearly about goo, and fome of them many more 5 lor Example, thote Caterpillers which lee upon the Cabdage and change into the common White Butter-flies, breed twice every Year, each of them laying near 400 Fees atone time; fo that from the fecond Broods Hay. for Oraering the Kitchen.Garden, 29 Brood of one fingle CaterpiZer we may reafonably expect 160000. Continue to deftroy Weeds before they fhed their Seeds, and particularly rhofe kinds which have featherd Seeds, fuch as Dande- lion, which are carry'd by the Winds to every Quarter of the Garden, and are hardly to be rooted out when they once get Poffefion. Products of the Kitchen-Garden in May. HE Kitchen-Garden now affords us manypleafing Varieties both ofFruits and Herbs. Afparagus is now in great Plenty, and Colyflowers are now in their greateft Perfe- Ction. The Jmperial, Royal, Silefia and many other kinds of Cabbage Lettuces, are in their Prime, and very proper Sallads for this Seafon, with Mixturés of young Burnet, Purflane, the Flowers of the {mall Nafertium, and Cucumbers; for the {mall Herbs which were the Sallads of the laft Month, are now to be laid afide, as they are apt to run into Leaf almoft as foon as they are above Ground, and are too hot for the Weather. We have yet fome Xidney-Beans upon the Hot-beds, This iu Alb 30 Monthly DIRECTIONS Vay, This Month we gather Peafe and Beans Tune. for Ordering the Kitchen-Garden. 34 from thofe fown in Odfober, and have Plenty Cl Artichokes. Wehave nowgreen Goo/eberries for Tarts, The Carrots fown upon the Hot-beds in February are now very good, but thofe re maining of the Crop fowed at Michaelmas are hard and good for nothing. Spinach is yet fit for Ufe. Works to be done in the Kitchen-Gara Lowards the End we have fome Scarlet Strawherries ripe in .the natural Beds, and the common May Cherry, with fome few of the May Duke-Cherries againft Walls, and alfo green Apricots for Tarts. This is the moft proper Month for di fiilling of Herbs, which are now in their } greateit Perfection. oY ON> E; “J “HE MethodI have taken in the preceding Sheets, in giving a fhort Ac- count of the Weather, which may reafona- bly be expected in every Month, was chief ly defignedto ftir up the Gardeners ceflaryCare of{uch of their Plantation the moft fubje@ to beinjured by Seafons: But ‘as in the foregoing } required our greateft Skill and Diliger guard againft Frofts, fo now we ought with the greatef{t Application, to ufe proper Methods for defending our Plantations from the too violent Scorchings of the Sun, and have a watchful Eye upon fuch Plantsefpecially as have been lately tranfplanted, and refrefh them with moderate Waterings about their extream Fibres, for to give them Water too near the Stem does them little Good ; thisWork ought nowto be done in the Evenings. ~ s. 2 Ri. 5 ‘ ; x ; Continue to mow Grafs-Walks early ia the Morning, and after Rain. Sow Wt WA 32 Monthly DIRECTIONS ne, Fnne, foreIrdering the:Kitchen-Garden. Sow fome Lettuces for Cabbaging, and replant others which are large enough for that Purpofe. We may yet fow Radifbes and fome En. dive. Continue to deftroy Weeds as in the for- mer Months. Itis nowa proper time to clip our Edgings of Box, &c. efpecially after Rain; but if the Weather be dry, gather Herbs for dry- ing to lay up for Winter Ule ; thofe are com- monly Sage of Virtue, Mint, Carduus, Sweet Marjoran, Thyme, Lavender, Rofemary and the Flowers of Marygolds, 33 Prodacts of the Kitchen-Garden in June. A T the Beginning we have fome 4/pafr ragus, but I cannot advife cutting themafter the firft Week. We have great Plenty of Garden Beans, Peafe, and Kidney-Beans. Collyflowers are now in great Perfection, and fome of the Barterfea and Dutch Cabéages will be fit to cut towards the beginning of the Month. We have alfo great Plenty of Artichokes. We begin to draw fome young Carrots and Onions that were fown in February, and _ About the twentieth tranfplant Leeks in light rich Ground, abont fix Inches apart, _ Cut no Afparagus after the fir Week fome young Parfaips. Roots, Kinds, wiz. the Dutch Brown, the Imperial, Sallads tor this Month are compofed of in this Month, for it will impoverith the Parflane, Burnet, the Flowers of Naffertium Indicum, and Cabbage Lettuces of feveral _ The Seafon is now very proper for bud- Royal, Silecta, and Cofs Lettuces, with fome ding or inoculating of Peaches and other Stone Fruits. Sow Xidney- Beans, Set fome ofthe Ronceval Peafe about four or five Inches apart, allowing two Foot Di- {tance between the Lines; chefe will afford a good Crop in September. Now look to your £/paliers of Fruit-Trees, and lay in good {tore of Branches, as well to fupply Vacancies as for Fruit-bearing. Produdts blanch’d Axdive and Cucuméers. The Flower-Stems of Burrage and Burnet are now good in Cool Tankards. The Pot-Herbs in ule the preceding Month are {till good. We have green Goofeberries for Tarts till about the End of this Month. The ripe Fruits are Strawberries, Cherries of many Kinds, asthe Dake, White, Black, and Red Hearts, the Flemi(fh and Carnation Cherries, Me fome Rasberries, Currants, and lons of the firit Ridges. Alfo we have D Codlins tt) Wilh 34 Monthly DIRECTIONS Codlins now fit for Ute, July. — Jitlp, and towards the End fome Funitings and the Mafculine Abriand in the forcing Frames (if we have 1 Kinds of Grapes are y ~ (a for Ordering the Kitchen-Garden. 35 at this time of the Year would fcald a new 7 watere d Plant, if we did not allowa fuffici~ ent Bi Time for the Moifture to fink into the Ground before the Sun comes uponit. Truft not too muchto the fudden Show- ers which may nowfall, for they are of ittle help to the Roots of Plants; neither neglect to water thofe Plants which ftand the Kitcheu-Garden im moft eve icchen-Garden can produce, s been diligent in the pres v meets the Reward We have little Weather very Care muft be planted Trees 1 their outward rected. The the Morning until Fight, rive in the Afternoontill Eight of he Evening ; but in particular which have the Benefit of {ome Wall abroad in Pots or Cafes, for they have yet lefs Benefit from the Rains in this Seafon, than the Plants in the open Ground. The firft Week fow Kidney-Beans, and fome Pea/e to bear in September and Odober, where they may have fome Shelter from the frofty Nights in thofe Months. And have an Eye to fuch Herbs as are now f{eed- ing: Water them plentifully, for about this time the Seed-Veflels of manyare forming, and a good Watering or two is very helpful to the filling of the Seed. Delay not to gather fuch Seeds as are ully grown and coloured in their Husks, ulling up the whole Plants, and fetting hem upright in a Green-houfe till the SeedPods are dry ; for were weto wait till the jusks open before we gather them, great rt of the Seed would be loft. to f{hade the Sun from them, we other times of the Day, obferving rne This Way hering Seed is commonly practifed ; will Wili Moilture in the Plants and little Sun nerfest+ th » 1 DOFTECL Liu ceeds, and theyare fubje& to no Hazard from Birds or Wet, Dz tL 26 fonthly DIRECTIONS The firth Week July. ie Ordering the Kitchen-Garden. Sly, 37 bruife the Infects you ttake out of them; for fow Cucumbers upca a Bed made with dry Horfe-Litter, cover’d tho’ es are feemingly dead, I have |known withlight Earth ten Inches thick ; thefe will a warm Day or two bring them to them- felves; therefore take Care how you throw them heedlefly away. begin to bloflom in September, and mutt then be cover'd at Night with a common There is no Time more proper to war againft Ants, and other fuch deftructive Vermin, cha a this Month; they are now Frame and Glafs, to keeep them from Frofts and cold Rain. By this Method you may have Cucumbers til Chrifimas. SowRoyal, Silefia, and Brown Dutch Let- all abroad, and may be baka, | See Mr. Lau- tuces about the middle of the Month, fome of which will be cabbaged for Winter Ute, rence’s invention for deftroying of Ants and and may then be plantted clofe together, where they may be fhelter'd with Glafles, P. 74.4 nuit note, that they fhould be fecured be- fore any Fro{t can pinch ’em, or they will rof. The fecond Week in this Month fow Care rots, Turneps and Onions to ftand the Wins ter. oceee ieneteataaymepanaaaeneiennead and have the Benefit of the Sun; but we Earth. Worms in his Frait-Garden Kalendar, Be careful to pick offall crumpled Leaves, where-ever you fee them, and the very Twigs themfelvesif they are curl’d, for they are the Beds ofdeftructive Creatures. I the more particularly recommend the Deftruction of thefe devouring Vermin, becaufe of their wonderful Increafe, efpecially the {maller kinds of them, {uch as infe@ the Earth up SeZery in Drills, and plant out a CoLyflower, nee Eggs are-five hundred times lefs than rhe leaft vifible Grain of Plant out Co/l;flowers to blofiom in Scp- Sand, and manySee of them in Num- Plant Ceeeget and Savoys for Autumn fo that from a fecond Generation of them theyare fo numerous, thatif every Egg which one might find upon a blighted Co/iflower, was a Globe of an Inch Diameter, they would fill more Space than the whole Ter- new Parcel to fucceed the former tember, and Winter Ufe JAYag vin! itAas and other Infects, ey and Ale near your Fruit This Way you may fo08 catch Quantity of them. Once @ ery Week ew the Boitles, and above alltake care to bruife ber lay’d (asI believe) fromone fingle Infect; re{trial Globe. The wonderful Smallnefs of the Eggs of thofe Creatures, I confefs, may leem very ftrange to thote who are unac- D 3 quainted Wt) mo 32 Monthy Din ECTIONS Gulp, quainted with the Ufe of Microfcopes; but this is no more curious than what the late famous Dr. Hook has taught us in his Works, where he mentions theSeeds of Mofs, which werefo fmall, that ninety thoufand of them beinglaid together ij na {trait Line, did not exceed th eLength ofa Barley. Corn, and that 1,382,400,000 of them would w eigh only a Grain. But fee more of thefe minute Beings in Mr. Hoof’s Micrographia, Mr. Lewenhoek’s Works in the Philofophical Tranfatlions, Myr. Balle’s Letter cone cerning Plagues, Blights, in following my Chapter my New Improvements , lough ayWeed as in the form er Month. th fow fome C: Ly flowers to ! ter for the right Seafon for efly to be regarded, if we ave good F lowers ¢early in the ffowing them only a few Days er or “ie makes themeit her run bee ore their Time, or come much later and Ker than tlNey oughtto do. If the Winter and t}e Plants are fet clo fe togerun up to Seed; and if a rough Seafon begins in 1¢ of this Sow ing Cwith the ) will make good forw ard Pla nts: 1 yf the Price of a little Seed . no great Matter to a cur ious Man, vile to fow again the firft Week in the next July. for Ordering the Kitchen-Garden, 39 next Month, as I thall aNerepsarticularly di- ret; fo that from thefe cao Seminaries. it will be morally ae to mifs of a Crop to our Mind; for if the firl ran, they will not be quite unfit for ‘Uke and thofe fown in Ste will then certainly produce,good Flowersin the Spring. We fow Chervile for Winter. We take up this Monte Shallots, Garlick, and gather Recambole when the Stalk turns yellow. When the Stalks of Ovzons change their Colour, pull them up in dry Weather, and expofe them to the Sun till they are well dry'd, to lay up for the Winter 5 but take care the Rain does not come at them after theyare out of the Ground. Tranf{plant Ewdive for blanching againft Winter. Chardones fhould now be tied up with ‘lay or Straw-Bands for blanching. Make a Bed for Ma/hrooms, and be fure to cover it very thin with Earth, hardly two apes thick, for on that depends your Succe W ™ your young Nurferics of ForefTrees. iN Wild Monthly DIRECTIONS Qttlp, Aug. seu (for Ordering the Kitchen-Garden. Products of the Kitchen Garden in July. / JE have Ronceval Peafe, Garden Beans, / and Kidney Beans: and fome come mend the Wing’d Peafe to be gathered very young, and drefs’d as Kidney “RB Beans. Wehave Colly flowers, Cabbages and Arti. chokes, in Abundance, and fome ofthe {mal l Artichoke- Suckers, to be eaten rawor fryed. All forts of Herbs for the Kitchen are very good, if the Gardener has minded from time to time to cut them downfor fho oting airein : Aromatick Herbs efpecially are in their greateft Perfeic Sallads for this Month are compofed of Cabbage- Lettuce, Purflane, Tar ragon, Burnet, young Onions, Cucumbers, ee Indicum, and Flowers of the fome Endive 2 We have young Carrots, Turneps, and ers, We have great Plenty of Musk- Mellons, Currants, Goofeberriss. Rasberries, Cher ries, ioricots, Peaches, and Neélarines. ‘mg and Codling are now good, me Pears. We yet have fome WoodStrawberries ; and towards the End our firkt “gs are ripe, and fome ofthe July Grapes. his is the beft Month for Pickling Ca- Works to be done in the Kitchen-Garden. in AUGU S Tf. “EHE firft part of this Month the Weather is commonly hot and dry, fo that Watering is {till neceflary; but about the latter End we are not without Danger of frofty Nights, and | have obferved that then alfo our firft Rains begin. We may water in the Evenings till the fifteenth, and after that, if there is Occafi- on: The Morning is to be preferr’d for that Work, for fear of Froft. The firft Week fow a fecond Crop of Collyflowers to ftand the Winter, left the firft fheuld run to Seed, which they will be apt to do if we have an open Seafon till Chrifmas, or the Ground belight and lie in a Bottom ; efpecially near the Sea: "Tis good to provide againft fuch Accidents. Sow Radifhes, .Cabbages, Coleworts and Onious to fiand the Winter. SowLettuce, Chervil, Cornfallet,and Spinach for Winter Ute. Nowbreak off the Stems of fuch Articbokes as have done blowing, CHMNDErS Works Sow VION) moe 42 Monthly DIRECTIONS Qtin, Sow Creffes to ftand the Winter; they will heighten the Tafte of thofe Sallads which are gathered upon the Hot-beds in December, January, axe Tranfplant Cabbage-Lettaces to ftand the Winter, efpecially of the Dutch Browz fort. Tie up Eindive for Bla nehing. Give more Earth to your BlanchingSeldery, and continue to raife the Earth about Gus. for Ordering thetKitchen-Garden. 43 very early in Augaff, or rather the End of July. Produtts of the Kitchen-Garden in Auguft. 7 OR boyling we have Catbages and the A Sprouts of the firft Cabbages,‘oly flowers, Artichokes, Cabbage Leta“Beets, Carrots, at every Fortnight, till it is fit for Ufe. and Turneps. bur other boiling Roots fhould not et be touchd. eee Yet continue to deftroy Weeds, and fuct Kidney Beans. Gather Seeds as directed in the former Vermin as annoy your Trees, T Fiathe cut ends the End flip and fet Aromatick Savory, Thyme, Flyffop, &e. and down thofe which are run to Seed within three or four Inches of the Ground. Till the tenth of this Month we may fow Turneps in the open Field, eno about London, for thefe Roots not only yield a profitable Crop, but very muchenrich all light Soils. In thofe Parts near the Sea in Devonfhire, the twentieth of this Month will not be too late to fow them, for thar Coun- try is fo fortunatelyfituated, thac it will perfec a Plant above fifteen Days fooner than any Part aboutSaal ; and from the beft Obfervatiens I can make, I find that about Northamptox all Plants come near a Fortnigsat later than it 1 our Loudon Gardens ; { hat £7 ‘urneps {hould G e (own in thofe Parts very e have yet fome Beans, Peafe, and All forts of Kitchen-Hezbs are nowas in the la ft Month. We have Radifhes and Florfe-Radifh. The Sallads are Cabbzage-Lettuce, Cucum- bers, with a Mixture of young Creffe s, Muftard, Radifb, and a little Tarragon, Roots now dryin the Houfe, are Onions, Garlick, Shallots, "icant We have Plenty of Cucumbers for Pickling, andthis Work fhould not be now any longer delayed, for the firft Froft or creat Rains ipoil leer We have Musk- Melons in abundance. Towards the End we begin to cut fome Sellery, Wehave ftill| fome Goofeberries, Rasberries, and Currants, with fome of the Carna tion and Morea Cherries, Abricots, Plums of va- rOns Kinds, Neclarines, feveral forts of Peaches and Pears and Apples, feveral Kinds of VION) Wil Sept, Sept. for Oraering the Kitchen-Garden. 45 , Malberries, Gather fuch fmall Seeds as are now ripe, according to the former Directions. Gather your Leek Seed, : if the Seeds ¥ Nthis Month the Gardener has great B Variety of Bufinefs, and mut employ his Head as well as his Handis towards furnifhing his Kitchen-Garden wi3 every thing neceflary for Winter Ufe. The Showers, which are feldom wanting at this Seafon, prepares the Ground for the Reception of manyPlants and Seeds; and the great Heats alfo declining, gives us now Opportunityof replanting many things which ‘would have been endanger'd by removing in the pre ough Tureps the firft Weather be dry, gather fuch Fruits he Trees, and fuch u" and in good Con- he Houfe for the 1DeiMonths. s or Apples as are fit to y leave the Tree, therefore -e¢ to pull them off, for fuch ingly pare frue the Tree, will : an infipid Tafte. Gather every Day in the Sun, till they are fit to be thrafh’d out. Gather the Pods of Garden and KiduneyBeans, and expofe them to the Sun for drying, to be laid up till Spring, or the time you would ufe them, and Jet them not be taken out of the Seed-Pods till your Ground is ready for them, for the Pods preferve the Seeds. In like manner fave your choice forts of Peafe. The Cucambers which are now full ripe muft be cut open, and the Seeds and Pulp taken out of them, to remain together two or three Days betore they are waih’d clean: he Seed may then be kept. in Water about twenty four Hours, and lay’dto dryin the Sun forten Days. Befure all Seeds are thoroughlydry before they are laid up, or they will rot. Cover now every Night your Cucumbers fown in Fuly. Sow fome of the Spanifh Radifh for the Winter. Make Beds for Mufhrooms as before directed. We may yet replant Ezdive, and all forts of Fiberous-rooted Herbs Continue tu A ——d es . 4 wrt, 7 ‘ Works to be done in the Kitchen-Garden in SEPTEMBER. TAT are black, cutting the Heads from the Stems, and fpread them upon a Sheet — SS = _—" Ss = SSeet wr a, 46 Monthly DIRECTIONS Gene, Continue to earth up SeLery, and now raife Banks of Earth about your ‘Chardones for blanching. Sow Spinach to be cut in February. Yet fow Sorrel and Cher vil. Make Plantations of Cabdages and Cole: good Seafon to tranfplant 1 v make Plantations of the Dutch Brow: ice to ftand the Winter. Sept. for Ordering the Kitchen-Garden. the Taft than whatare raifed in the former Months, for the Evenings (the beft Time to eat Sallads) are nowcold. Sow fome Seeds of the Naffertium Indi- cumin Pots to ftand the Winter, which they will do very well, if they are fhelter’d in a common Greenhoufe. Products of the Kitchen-Garde in September. nfolant young Colyflower Plants jn they are to Flower, and in fome warm Wall, or Place fote, Thofe which are now ‘or Good, will bloffom above ner than thofe which are 3 he Spring, and will produce wers, if they are well de- mm Frofts with Glafs Bells. 2eaton be dry, water in the Morne Thelat Week, if Showers fall, isa very ate time to plant Fruit-Trees, altho’ theit aves are not fallen; fuch as Peaches, Ne- es, Goerrzes, and other Stone. Fruit ; but ipples, Fears, &c, may be delayed till the middle of the next Month. Ve may nowtranfplant A/paragus Roots. oow {mall Herbs for Sallads in fome well- expofed Place, obferving to provide fuch Mixtures for this ocalon, as are horter to the 47 JE have nowfeveral kinds ofPeaches, \ Grapes, Figs, Pears and Apples, with fome ofthe late Kinds of Péums. We have yet Melons and Cucumbers, Walnuts are now good, and Filberts full ripe. = ; This Month affords us fome young Garden Beans and Ronceval Peafe, and we have yet fome Xidney-Beans. Upon the Artichokes which were planted at Spring, we have now very good Flowers and Suckers, and we have ftill Plenty of Colly- Slowers. We have Cabbage-Lettuces of feveral forts in great Perfection, and Radifhes. Sallads for this Month are compofed of Creffes, Radifb, Chervil, young Onions, Tarra- Zon, Burnet, and Lettuce, with fome blanch’d SeZery and Endive, We have Plenty of Mu/brooms upon Beds and in Pafture-Grounds. We < ee § 48 Monthly DIRECTIONS Qetoh, Weaere 8 ae Turneps, Skirrets, Scorzonera, and Beets, both the Red and the White. Roots for the Kitchen ufe are Hfor/eOnions, Garlick, Shalots, and Rocame Ve abundance of Cabéages and Sprouts of Cabbages, with fome Savoys ; but tne laft eat much better when the Froft has pinch’d ‘em. > ? ° Detob. for Ordering the Kitchen-Garden. SV ailing Cucumbers to have them come for" 2 eo 7 ward, is certainly muchbetter than ta be gin after the ufual Method in December or January ; for thefe Plants will better endure the cold Air, than thofe whichare raifed when the Groundis cover’d with Snow. Nowfet fome Xiduey- Beans in Baskets under fome warmWall, to be afterwards ailift- ed by moderate Hot-beds as the Seafon be- comes violent. With good Management thefe will fruit very earrly. Take up thofe Colly-flower Plants which Works to be done in the Kitchen-Garden in OO TO BE R. will increafe in Bignefs, and remain good W*re, now to make Ufle of eve ry tations of pportunity to compleat our Plan- Herbs for Winter Ufe. The great. eft Part a this Month we mayexpect tole rable Weather, but after that our chief Bus finefs will be, to fecure from the Severities of the Seafon all Se which are in dans re of bei Vv inds. begin to flower, tie their Leaves together and bury their Roots and Stalks in Sand ia a Cellar, or fome cool Place, the Flowers y the Frofts and high ‘Tis the firft Week in this Month that I advife the fowing of Cucumbers on the natue ral Ground, to be afterwards tran{planted into Pots, where the 7 maybe fhelter’d from the Cold of the Nights, ‘ailla gentle Hotbed is neceflary for them. This Way of raifing two or three Months. Alfo cut Artichokes with long Stalks, and preferve them in the Houfe, fetting their Stalks in Sand. ‘Tis now the Seafon to ic up Rootsfor Winter Store, fuch as Carrots and Parfnips 5 _fome Gaardeners a Ifo thinkic beft to take the Roots of Zurneps out of the Ground, and lay them in Sand: But I rather chute to leave the Zurneps in the Ground|till we are ready to ufethem; and for the se two kinds I prefcribe the following Method Make choice of a dry Part in your Garden, and there dig a Trench about fix or eighr Inches deep, into which (without Mixtureof Earth or Sand)lay your Roots clof together, E fir (t VION) A Monthly DIRECTIONS Qetoh, firft cutting oftheir green Tops andgrowing Buds, and then cover tl lem about fix Inches | th Wheat-Strawridgewife. We may vay preferve them fic for Ufe till the following Fune. ‘Lis now the beft time of the Year for traniplanting of Fruit-Trees, Leaves are upon them. J ran{plant Fore/tF Trees altho’ their of all forts from Datob. for Ordering the Kitchen-Garden. 51 the Earth; as there are different kinds of Plants growing upon it, and that each Plant can only take out of the Earth that Spirit whichits Parts are naturally prepared to receive, and leave the others undi{turbed. If the Generation of Plants is allowed, as have endeaveured to explain it in the fir{ Part of my New Improvements, the val the Beginning to the End ofthe Month; the rieties in Plants feem to proceéd from Coupling of one Plant with areagsOe its Leaves are then very green. I have feen the E of this at Mamhead in Devore: is, the Farina Fac tie of on convey’ d by the Air, and | ¢ efpecially about the firft Weck, altho’ eat of Thom is Bi: lle, Efg; a very ] ‘ned Gentleman. ile of the Month fow the 1 Beds of freth Barth. to ing, or even making of fing. From a Nurfery aS manydifferent forts Plants, altho’ the Seeds fame Tree ; fo much is ‘ariety: And it may nflant and uniform _ Vegetative Power f0o toon nal Lite hs for I conceive, lL Apples exa uy the fame , they would { tire very lap 1€ N VO urifhment from and the lhe with every other But this Variety feems oe lave often thhought of, any ¢lifting Qualities in the fo iA WA : Female Parts in the Bloffomss of anothe Tree, changes the Properties in the Seed, which it impregnates fo as to make x pro- duce a Tree differing in fome refpects from the. Mother Plant. Nog lay up fomeAcorus and the Maf? of other Timber-Trees in dry Sand We may yet tranfplant Cabbage and Cofy- flower Plants, and now make your lait Pi tation of Lerruces to ftand the Winter. The Cucumbers which | directed to be fown in July mutt nowbecarefully covered up every Night, and the Glafles be kept over them in wer or windy Wearher, but give them as muchAirasis poilible in the Day- time, if the Seafon will permic. Continue to Earth up Sedlery for Blanch- ing. "Tdi the End, Earth up anddrefS fuch Artichokes as have done blowing. E 2 Sow Monthly DIRECTIONS Detoh, Sow Creffes, Lettuce, Muftard, Radifh, 53 Turnep, and Spinach upon a decay’d Hot. Produts of the Kitchen-Garden in OGtober. Lettuces (already Cabbaged) for Winter N this Month we have yet remaining | fome Coll)flowers, Artichekes, Peafe and expoted Place, where they may be defended Beans, bed, to be cut for Sallads. If you have not yet made a Plantation of Ute, delay no longer to do it in fome well fromthe Froft. Nowgather fuch Pears and Apples asare full ripe, in a dry Day, without bruifing them, and lay them in the Fruitery upon dry Mofs. Sow Radi/hes in fome warm Place to draw carly in the Spring. Sow fome of the Hot/par- Peafe and Spie nifh Leans in fome well-expofed Border, 1 ther under a thick Hedge, than under a Vall. Make Plantations of Goofeberries, Currants, Rasberries from the Suckers or Cuttings. Now make Plantations of Apples (grafted upon Paradife Stocks) in Pots; they will bear when the Trees are very (mall, and are very Ornamental at an Entertainment to be ict prowi eo Ortob, for Ordering the Kitchen-Garden. ng upon a Table. Now put fome Roots of. Mint upon 4 ref } J L1Lit Ho t ite Cd. | The Xidney- Beans fown in July will now produce goodFruit, if we defend them from the cold Nights. We have yet Cucuméers and fome Melons, Roots for boyling are Turneps, Carrots, Parfnips, Potatoes, Skirrets, Scorzonera, and Beets. Roots to ufe raw in the Kitchen are Onions, Garlick, Shalots, Rocambole. Sallad Herbs are Creffes, Chervil, Muftard, Radifh, Turnep, or Rape, Spinach, Lettuce both fmall, and feveral forts of Cabbage- Let- tuce, Burnet, Taragon and young Onions, with blanch’d Se#ery and Endive. We have Chardones. i Herbs for Soup and other Kitchen-Ufes are Parfly, Beets, and all the Aromatick Herbs. — cs Ripe Fruits in this Month are fome of the late Peaches and Plums, Grapes, Figs, and lA ihe eerries, with fome Filberts and Walnuts, and great Variety of Pears and Apples. We have Plenty of Mu/brooms. Produlis E 3 i Has. for Ordering the Kitchen-Garden. 55 Set Beans ofthe Spanifh Kind, and fome of the Hot/pur-Peafe in fome well expofed Place Prepare now a gentle Hot-bed for the Cucumbers fown in St and for the Xid- Kitchen Gardem. in ER. ney Beans {own -at the fame time; but plant them not together, for the Warimath which is neceflary to keep a Cucumber would de*% to oe Winds, 5, taking eat:Bor of is not ftroy the Beans. Now make Hot-beds for Afparagus to have fome in December ; and if we are not provided with Roots in our ow eet rfery, e] we maytake them from fot old ntaicion which is worn out. Set: the Rae taking T ‘lo!f, eiestuce without trimming, ire that they do not come within two Inches of the Dung, and that their Buds are covered at lea{t four Inches thick with Earth, a! W inds othiing in [See further Directions in my New [mprove- ments, Part IH. p. 140.] ‘Tis now a very good time to lay down Branches of the Vine, efpecially fuch as we wealhave Fruit upon the following Year, to be fet growing in Pots upon a Table art reat Entertainments. The .Branches foi this Purpofe mult be Shoots of the fame Vane of-a Year, atid fo drawn throughthe Hole at the Bottom of a Garden-Pot, that when it is th v ie 1S tilled with1 Earth there maybe a reafonable ap Number of Eyes or Buds above-Ground : A aie hee ae lirong Branch perhaps may bear eight or E4 nine, i=ab: ay ee = Monthly DIRECTIONS JRoy, and as the Branch is {maller in Pros tion four orfive. prone your ines growing in the ers and Vineyard,and plant new re there is occafion. | Theywill fully, and their Fruit will ripen wi thout the ] lelp of l, if hoice of the Black CurraanWal t Grape belt lor that Ufe) the White My cadine, tne Black Fronteniac ; efpecially when are rigatly managed, as in the Gard en Mr. Rigaud neat Swallow-Streer, who ne- als OF a good Crop ofFruit from thefe anted in open Borders. nue {till to planr Trees, if the Wea- Pen, ana1 plant Suckers and Cut- DBS 0: Goofeberries, Currants and Vines, Plant Aint upon moderate Hot-beds. ettuce, Creffes, Muflard Radifb, TurHot-beds for youn di and tie up Lnudive ime to cut offthe Afpa- f turnd yellow, cut FEE Inches of the Ground, Earth out of the Alleys if your A/paragus has t a Covering of rich Soil. tO trench Ground, and in wAcel on Dung and other | fuch Places as want to be enriched, J20. for Ordering the Kitchen- Garden. 57 riched, for then the Walks wil l not be {poiled. Sow Peafe and Beans of the EZo t/pur and Spanifh Kinds in open Ground, and if the Weather be fair, September, Earth up thofe fown in Products of the Kitchen-Garden in No vember. ES Month we have Collyflow ers in the Green Houfe and fome Artich okes. Roots to be ufed this Month are Carrots, Parnips, Turneps, Beets, Skirrets, Scorzonera, FHorfe-Ra > difb, Potatoes, Onions, Garlick, Sha lots, Rocambole. Pot-Herbs are Sellery, Parfly, Sorrel, Thy me, Savory, Beet-Leaves, and Clary out of the Garden: And of dry’d Herbs we have Mint, Sweet Marjoran, and Flowers of the Maryold. : Ferbs for boiled Sallads are Cabbages and the Sprouts of Cabbages, fome few Savoy Cabbages, and Spinach, We have Cucumbers upon thofe Plants fown in Fuly, if we have kept them well guarded from Rain and Froft. Sallads for this Month are the fmall Herbs on the Hot-bed, with Burnet, CabbageLettuce, Seery and Endive blanch’d , and young Onions. We have yet fome Grapes, Peaches and Figs, with Apples and Pears of feveral forts ; fome Vt Lp ckv Monthly DIRE CTIONS Dee, fome Bullis, fbeg 5, Hlazlenuts, Chefnuts, Medlars, and Ser wiles. with fome Arbutus or TSAI. Det. for Ordering the Kitchen-Garden. 59 and look over his Fruitery, removing all fuch Fruits as are any ways damaged, for theyfpoil the a Fxamine Orchard Fruit-Trees, and take aw ay fuch sation as make Confufion, covering every confiderable Wound with in the Kitchen-Garden in EM BD fh, § cs ~ Pauth’ AA se GihiA mt, ? IS Lud] & to evervfort is fatal to Plants of a ill Vegetables of our Cli; the Days are fhort, ‘| ry « IU} i Wartmtn trom the Sun tous L over o Garde ns wifh indeed ’tis now an ine | Skil. in (uch not capable of extraordinary of Frofts, reat Severity els, (ik Nefly in the long a Gardener ought to em ploy him < . 1 Nesealer ud nm’ nyrensa J i} : tuMUY, it] pitpa ring andfitting up - Toois, and mak ing fuch Shelters er Plants as will now be required. aD tO p!roviide his Take of Bees-Wax, Rofin and Tar equal Quantities, to which add of Tallow ibaa half the Quanti ty of any one of the former; HIS Month, commonly called - me of the following Mixture. Shreds for Naili ng and sy and mix themtogether in an Earthen ‘efiel well glazed, and immediately after = Amputation, dip a Painting Brufh in this Mixture, andcover the Wound with it; this will keep the wet and cold Air from pene- trating into the Body ofthe Plant, and keep it from rotting Set Traps for Vermin, they now deftroy your Roots and Seeds. in open Weather we may fow Peafe and Beans of the fame Kinds and in the fame Manner as directed in the former Month. We muft now look carefully after our Jot-beds, and add to their Heat if they beoe to cool, by. lining them with hot Dung; but we muft alsvays remember the Defign of thefe Bedsis rather to defend the Plants in them from Cold, than to make them grow quick. If we were careful to raife Plants of Cucumbers and Kidney-Beans, as I directed in,O/fober, we hall now fee them ina hopeful State, and much mor e capable of wt) WA 60 Monthly DIRECTIONS Der, of refiflingtthe Frofts than thofe that were fown at the Beginning of this Month, as many Gardeners are uled todo. Towards the middle of the Month make a Hot-bed for 4/paragus, to be ordered in the fame manner of that. made in November, Sow upon a Hot-bed Lertuce,» Radifh, Cref- les, Muftard, and other Herbs which are hot, to cut for {mall Sallads. In frofty Weather bring into the Garden the neceflary Manures for enriching the Ground. Det. for Ordering the Kitchen Garden. 6. the Zops of young Peafe, Parfley, Sorrel, Spinach, Chervil, Sellery and Leeks, with Sweet Marjoran and Marygold Flowers dry‘d, and alfo dry’d Mint, forthe Green Mint at this time of the Year iis {carce, and not fo good forsi as for Sallads. We have Afparagus upon Hot-beds, and if We ae been diligent we have yet‘fome Cucumbers upon the Plants fown in Fuly and Auguft. We have Plenty of Pears -and Apples. Produtts of the Kitchen-Garden in December. \VV" have now many forts ofCabbages ind their Sprouts for boil;ing, and > ‘i ONL gi oe the ¢ onfervatory we ha ve fome Colly. vers, and Arricl OkeS p ref erved''in Sand. The Roots for this Month are the fame is 19 the laft. Sallads are the {ma ue Erb s upon the Hotbed, wit h Mint, 7arrag bby, ner, CabbageLettuces pre (eved undert Gla ttes with fome Cre ffes and Chervil upon thenatu ral G round, which have a high afte, an d help the Sallads of thi s Seafon very much: and with thefe we have Sellery and En dive blanched. . a for Soups and the Kitchen ule are Sage, Thyme, Savory, Beet-Leaves, the MONTHLY wt) WL a G) ro 744 a4 Ri — WT a t AN b -HOUS “4 onal IRECTIONS For Ordering the (rrppy bili ee a 7) een-Ho ; ty e. and F lowe; -Gat teeta aACHS iu Ab eeceteneccmer FANU ART. "uta F the Weather be HhGethis Month, ic very fevere ing fling fome loofe : Z2Ne Straw over your Beds of Azemos yy nies and Ranunculus; or if fuck Beds of Flowers are already co-~ ~ . ‘ - vered with Snow,let it remaintill it begin to thaw, and then we cannot be too expedi= tious in removing it, for the Snow-Water has a veryill Effect upon Bulbs and Roots of this Kind, if we fuffer it to fink into the Ground about them; and befides, if a frofty Night fhould {peedily follow a Thaw, the Wet near the Surface would freeze into athin Ice, which would cut or wound the Leaves or Stems ofthefe Flowers, and make them decline. If the Weather is gentle and open, plant Anemony and Ranunculus Roots in Beds of F Farth Fat, / e Green Elonfé and Flo wer-Gardens, 67 Lats with a Spzde. and ine it would be much the Vhe Barth cannot well be too Hlowers, andefpecially the fhould be freth, and free from ure of Dung, which breeds Ver- at, for Shoots made at this time ar arefickly, and weaken the Pla nt. haw make a finall Charcoal Fir e -roportion to the Bignefs of tha t 1 is ever deftructive to Roots of About the middle pick off the dead and withered Leaves from your Aariculas, and take away as much Earth out of each Pot as poilible without difturbing the Roo ts, to make room for fome frefh Earth, prepar ed with fandy Loam mixed with one. third part:ot rotted Wood. AT ‘ Vote, _— J hat aaa In Flower-Gardeus in January, anc ire of the Ficoides are now in Flower; \_ an d Alves of feveral forts begi n to put forth their Flower-Stems. Th e Indian Telow Note alfo, . at leaft a Year before and the White § anifh Fel lamines have yet fo Guard wel] me Bloffoms upon them, and fom e fickly Orange-Trees blotiom about this time. The Month ther al Plant known to the Gardeners by the Name of the Candy-Tuft-Tree, or Thl afpi Sempers cite fu ptLIC VY In 1 ; ever the y tou ch ter to an Fires dry the Damps whichrife alw ays after a Thaw, andby « eftroying thofe Po Vapours, keep thePlants dry, and ifonous free them from the danger of rotting. Tranfplant the Winter Aconite in Flower, and part its Reots; for when the this Plant are decay’d, ’tis very Leaves of hard to find the Roots. Ga to the Leaves, but bury none o they will decay. Can coms tina little Air at the fame Wind is not too cold: Thefe Flowers now blowing in the GreenFToufe and this Earth (which mut be we it gentiy about the Roots, Houle, « time, if the ' : ‘ th ey in fe&. outs _ Wae Gi ve no Wa | Without mine. by , with the YeZow Tndian Feffae ‘n the Flower-Garden we have in Bloffom the Winter Aco of ; Verens, is yet in Flower, and fome kinds of the Gerranium nite, any forcing Single WVall- Flowers, the Chriftmas Flower, or Black ffe llebore, and F 2 thag vit MO Yan, Fatt, the Green. Houfe and Flower-Gardens. 69 that fort with a green Flower; Snow- Drops, times it has not budded till the middle of es . aoe As Ceacareron™ - — é 68 fonthly Direfions for Ordering the Bramal Hyacénth:.{fome Stock Fulyflowers, january ; however, it feldom fails of Flowers about that Seafon, and has nothing more nies, the Gentianella, the Winer Cyclamen, in it than what we find in all other Plants brought from foreign Parts, which at the where they are well ihelterd, Single Anemo- Baiwrales. and fome‘kinds of the Polyanthos, the Laurus Tinus, Mezerions White and Red, and the drfutus, or Strawberry-Tree, The Folly and Pyracantha are now adorned with their beautiful Scarlet Fruit, and the Amomum Plinii. We have nowalfo the G/affenbury Thorn time of their natural Spring are ever difpo- fe d to bloflom, notwithftanding the Oppofition of our Satie and it is not unreafo- nable to think this Plant was originally brought from fome County where the Spring is about December, fuch as Arabia, putting forth a few faint Flowers, ~if the the Holy Land, and many other Places about ally begins its the firft Plant ofit at Glaflenbury grewfrom Froits do not hinder ; and as this Plant ufue blofloming in December. it has given room for fomefuperftitious Per- fons to look upon it as a Miracle thinking the Flowers appear only upon Chriflmas Day, the fame Latitude: And if it was true that a plain Staff or Twig without Root or Branch, it is no wonder, although it had been taken from the Tree fix Months be- as the Story goes ofit. Jofeph of Arimathea, fore; for! have frequently cultivated Plants him a longer than fix Months opebit and they have grown very well ; fome Stakes they fay, coming into England, brought with tafl of this Thornwood, and fer it upon a Ch rifimas Day in the Griound at Glaf- nbury, where it im macliarelg rh Root, ded and bloflomed, and fo it has contie do ever. fince upon that Feftival, ll_us, in Honour ofSt. Jothe Plant becing now cultivated in feveral very apt to miftake a of its Bloiloming, r has been more mild 1 have feen it in Flow- er, and at other times in as bad a Condition, which have been of the Willow, for Example, it do the fame. This Plant may be*encreafed by crafting it upon the White-Thorn in March. Such as are minded to make Gardens of Flowers for the feveral Months in the Year may compofe them from thefe Catalogues of Flowers blowing iy in the feveral Seatons, ninfe rving that fuch as are to be in cheir On| oo1ers¥ the W inter, thnould have as Try* i ee Go a.'2 Y Un § Bernefit ¢aS pofii ble. VION) WALL feb, theGrsen- FLoufe aud Flower-Gardens, 71 much ftronger than fuch as are planted out - i : ee oe accent Cn<p agai aan ae for bloWit 1g| 0 March. Works to be done in the Green- Floufe and Flower-Garden o vr in fF E B R UA R —_ next.Month. If the Weatherthe open, tranfplane al! forts 7 flowering Shrubs, which bear the Wea- of tC Ontinue the Works of the former A Month, if the Seafon has not thea been favourable ehough to finifh what was directed to be done. | f her, , but chiefly Cif we can get ken out of the hollow Pl acces e in Willow When the Earth is raked Sevel, fow t Seeds upon it, and then prefs allnddown Si eewit ithh -a piece of fmooth Board y ; €r thefe Boxes with Nets, and let them tane e din {omefhady ’ Place, Place giving theem m fre fi jucat Waterings ll they come up. New Im PEERED ts, Now like wile [ See {ow the SE eds S Of Polyant has eed with ary = od Fem in very light aa tC HG OH | Si ty 5d ar + iil Wo Verini O; vi e mi r E M Groundin fome R L.O iIX ( Lyla. G 6uilder Rofe, f- R es, Jafinine, 4 ET La- ny Floneyfucrie, Spireas, Altheas, @xe Part and Towards the End, tow Lark/purs pele[y= oaks, Canterbury Pri wt WA Williams,Annual Si and the & carlett Lich Soil be ish ght; that Work till about a Tis now ight Myrtles as th Seafon to i fhift fuch e fametime fhavingoff the outfide Fibres of their Roots, Ate.if they |have / ccafion, prune their "End of the Month head Oseaat rees, and give them frefh Earth | x {Oo wax thole mh es we have aes with foft Wax. Ceaprovcey” vi iy fttjill plid c Cé, on ra, He Part| | Ps FQ2. | ¥ Hall llow upon fome me lhadyBcorder. very Viz ~ burnum. Auricula Seeds in th‘light Bars fuch as rot ted nen i ta Aaa or oecea Turn and skreen Mold for the ufé of the 7 [See my New are Il. Pp. 214. | Stir the Surface of the Earth in your Pots Ra- in the‘Confervatory, but be not over-hafty Miia l ¢hes Ga le of the: Month give es frefh Air to your tender Plants, for not yet bear it. “Tis now the Anemony and arnations that were planted : ir 7, @ F { thofe riowers wi ll blow much t many Exoticks perifh through the cence of fome Gardeners, who are eo tempted 72 Monthly Diredtions for Ordering Fett, tempted to open the Windowsofthe Green: Houfe when the Sun fhines a little favourable upon the Plants. : We maynow make Layers of Rofes, Feffamines, Floneyfuckles, Phillarea, Laurus Tinus, and other fuch like Shrubs. Sow the Seeds of the Laburzum, Spanifp Broom, and the Berries of Bays, Yew and Folly. Sow Exotick Seeds from the hotteft Climates upon Hot-beds, éefpecially the Annu al Kinds, which require feveral Months and great Heat to bring them to Perfection. Now cut downthe Spanifh Jeffamine withe in four Inches ofthe Stem, at the fame time giving them frefh Earth. Make Layers of the Yellow Indian and a Portugal White Feffamines, Pomegranates , Olives, and Arbutus, minding to interr onl y the moft tender Branches, for thofe which are once become woody will never take Root. Sow Orange and Limon Kernels in Pots, as 1oon as theyare taken out of the Fruit, and fet the Pots in Hot-beds. Nowmake Plantations of the Lilly of the Valley on the fide of fome fhady Bank. Flowers Feb, the Green-Houfe and Flower-Gardens. 7% Flowers now blowing in the Green-Floufe’ and Flower-Garden. VW: have feveral kinds of He/lebore yet | flowering, the Winter Aconite, Snowdrops, chiefly that with double Flowers, Crocus both the Ye/low and the Purple kinds, fome Hyacinths, fingle Anemonies, Perfian fris, Single Hlepaticas, Single Dafodils, Sin- gle Wall Flowers, fome Double Daftes, Stock Gillyflowers, and the Spring Cyclamen; and in the Green: Houfe the Thlafpi Semper-virens, fome Ficoides, Geraniums, Alses, and the Tellow Indian Feffamine, Some Oranges alfo put out-a few Bloffoms, if they are not in good Health. In the forcing Frames, at Mr. Millet’s a famous Nurfery-Man at Northend near Fulam, we have now Rofes and Double Junquils in Flower. The Mezerions and Laurus Tinus yet remain tn Blofiom. iu Al Works to be done in the Green Hou le and ‘Jower-G rden in M A R C H7. ‘OWis Raebeft Seafon to fow Poppies, “Venus Looking-Glafs, and fuch oth er inuals rit not venture in the ins th. We May now alfo part or flip a! bane of {1D rous-rooted P ints that are not fleowertae as Gentianel } uble q bite Ro Cikets, Scarlet Lit me, § Cardinal ‘ower, Rof > Campiail Doubie Wag f lowe? f, Ho: oaks, Bers uadalalite 7 5, Afters of all forts, M nks- Flood, Oweer-Y ihiams, Sea rc Pinks, SC, ’ the Seeds of the Stock-Gil/ flower s, INOW flip and fet Box for Ed glngs5, or in Figured oske: but takeOP no more in one Day than you can pl. Defend your Tulips from Bl}ights, which endanger them this Month. Make a Frame o! Hoops over your choicelt Bed, and cover it with Mats in bad Wenchen Some have War, the Green-Houle andFlower.Gardens, 5 for at the End of this Month they fhould be fet in order. This Place fhould tace the Haft, and be defended on every other fide from the S$ un: The top thould _ a Covering of Baft-Mats or Canvas, to | eepthe iMuitales from Wet, for the leatt R] ain ima- ginable, fpoils the Beautyof thefe Flowers. Aboutthe Beginning of the Monthtranfplant your Carmation L| ayers for blowing, if i they werenot planted out at dutunHt which is much the beft time for that Work. Let the Earth for thefe Flowers be two thirds of Sandy Loam well incorporated with one third of rich Melon Earth, or rotted Wood : This Mixture oveht to be at leafi two Years old before it is ufed. Sow now upenthe Hot. bed fuch Exotick Seeds as are lefs tender, and comefonerto PerfeCtion than thofe fown as laft Month ; fuch as the Naft sia Indiccum, French atid ifrican Marygolds, Balfamines, “Convolvulus, efpecially theli ttle Blew, the China, or le dian Pink, and fuch others as would have oeen too rampant for the Hot-bed if they iad be enfow:n the faft Month; for till the erings of Canvas to take off and on at rleature, riddles { May we muf{t not 1venture any of ihade their nae“rs in. the time oftheir tl which they make ufe of as well to oom, asto help them againthe injurious yt } : a iti Di alls. nd| repair your Sh thefe abroad in tlie natural Ground; and e if they were to be fowneailytthey woul touch the Glafles long before we Could give themI -iberty en ough. If we have not the Conveniency of Hot- bed Yeas, Wwe may defer th Cl fowing t the Afré- of C4# vION) MO! 76 Monthly Directions for Ordering Dar, ¢an and French MaryTyge gold noe r , the Nafferti (umum and anc Marvel of Peru, till the next Month, and a then they will come up in the natural Ay A Ground, if they are fown under fome warm Wail. Delay no longer to fow the Seeds ‘of the Hum ble and Senfitive Plants upon the Hotbed; they are wonderful Curtofiti es, but mutt always be kept under Glafle s. Nowfowin the natural Ground the wild Spirting Cucumber and the Noi me tangeres falria diverting Plants when the ir Fruit js Give frefh Earth to your Pots oft he Cam- panula Pyramidalis. and fet them into fome Pit where the Sun may come at them. this Methed will make them growta ll, whte is the chief Excellency of this Plant. _Now likewife fow their seeds, and take off Slips from their Roots. Plant Zuberofes in Pots of freth Earth, giving them a gentle Heat, and no Water till they {prout. . Tran{plant nowthe Arbor jude, and fow tne Seeds of it. Graff the Spanifh White Fel famine upon i¢ common White Engl: fh (ort. tant and make Layers of the Pafton-Tree t Fiaces, ‘to make it bear Fruit, Mat, the Green-Houfe and Flower-Gardens. 77 Put fuch Exotick Plants into a Hot- bed as have fuffered in the Confervatory, but take {pecial Care they are well guarded from the Steam of the Dung by a due Thicknefs of Earth laid upon it. Now tranfplant the 4momum Plinii, or Winter Cherry, prune their Roots and {horten their Branches, give them frefh Earth, and fet them in the Front of the GreenHoufe, for they are hardy and will now bear the Air. Note, Theyare great Lovers of Water, and if they have Shade enough when they are fet abroad, they will bear Fruit plentifully. Take efpecial Care now of your Orange and Lemon-Trees that they don’t want Wa- ter, give them little at a time andoften ; ufe themby degrees to the Air, and we may preferve their young Fruit, which is very apt to fall at this Seafon of the Year, if they are over-water’d, or are too hattily made acquainted withthe Air. Towards the End we maytranfplant Tews, Flollys, Philirea, and other Evergreens, and flow the Seeds of the Evergreen Priver. Mind to water your Cafes of Auricula Seeds, Ina warm Day begin to give little Water to the moft fucculent Ficoides. Flowers tu UA RA y Monthly Directcy.ions for a rm? Feowers now blowing in the Green-Houfe and -9 ey e « Flower-Garden. nave now Azemonies both double nd fingle, Ayacinths, Funquils, {everal kinds of Narciffus, ‘and chiefly the Narciffus of Conflantinople, fome of the Pres coce Tulips, and ofthelater kinds of Crocus, particularly the White Polyauthos ofall fort s, Violets, Daftes, Walt Flowers, Stock Gillye flowers, Tris’s of {everal kin Is, Hepatica’s of the double lorts, Crown Imperial, Dens Caninus, Grape Flyacinths, and {ome forts of Fritillaria, a Flower now highly in Hollandfor jts vatt Variety in requeft (as I am In- formed) and toward the End we hav e fome few Auricula's. The Trees in Bloffom are the Almond, Abricot, Peach, Arbor Jude, Laurus Tinu s, fome Oranges, and we have ftill fome Flow: ers of the Ledian Tellow Feffamine, wit h fome forts of Ficoides, gy Fig-Marygolds, and Alees, . Works to be done Flower.Garden in the Green-Houfe in APRIL. Y J 7E maybegin this Month with fowV V ing in the natural Ground the lefs tender Exotick Seeds, and fuch FlowerSeeds as we have omitted to fow in the preceding Month. Many Seeds from the Cape of Good Hope and trom Virginia will come up, being jown at this time of the Year in natural Borders well expoted. We may now fowScarlet Beans, Scabsous, Columbines, Marygolds, Guaphalium, and CyAnUS, We may now fow Pine and Firr-Seeds, covering them with a Net to keep them from the Birds, who are very voracious of them, even after they are come up. We may yet pare and fet all Fibrousrooted Plants. Nowis the bet time of ‘.as i the Spring to remove all forts of Evergreens, putting large Ffollys in Baskets for their greater Saietyin Tranfportation ; for Hol/ys at beft have but few Roots, and can hardly hold their Earth Without this Help. Plant their Baskets with them, but Yews will do well enough with- out this Charge, if they have been dug about VION) WA Qe Mont bly Directions for Ordering | about D in the Nurfery, their Roots will be Bp full of little Fibres, and will hold the Earth together. Make freth Hot-beds to forward your young Seedling Oranges and Lemons, and other Exotick Plants now come up, and fit to tran{plant from the firft -Hot-bed. Pot fome of your Amaranthus Tricovor and Cock/combs ; give them a frelh Bed to draw them tall. About the Beginning, your Auricula Seed will begin to appear above Ground, if it has been carefully water’d, and be {ure let it not want at this time, for the young Plants will foon wither. Keep thofe Cafes in the Shade till Augu/é that we plant them cut. Begin now to water your Aloes, Sedums, TorchToiftles, Euphorbiums, and other tens der fucculent Plants, but give it in very fmall Quantities when the Sun thines hot, and nowbegin to ‘ufe thofe tender Plants to the Air bylittle and little. The Windows of the Orangery may now be open from Morning till Night, if the Winds are not veryviolent. Stick up your Carnations. After Rain clip your Edgings of Box, Roll your Grafs and Gravel-Walks; alfa rake over and renew, if there is Occafion, your Walks of Cockle-Shells and Works ina Sand, Gyr, the Green-Foufe andFlower-Gardens. 8x¢ Sand, cut the Edges of your Grafs, and mowit often, for now it grows apace. Stake up all Plants and Flowers which are now grown to any Height, for the Winds are now dangerous. Deftroy Weeds before their Seeds are ripe. The Aurieala’s, which are now in their full Bloom, fhould once in three Days be refrelhed with moderate Waterings ; the Flowers will be the better coloured for it, and the Seed come to greater PerfeCtion; but keep the Sun and Rain from them. Flowers now blowing in the Green-Honfe and Flower-GardeJ n, HIS Month furnifhes us with oreat Variety of Ranuncula’s and Double Anemonies, and towards the End we have fome Tulips. Dafes alfo ftill continue flowering, as do alfo the Double Hepatica’s and Polyanthos of feveral kinds. We have feveral kinds of Narciffus and Double Funguils now in their Prime. The Crown Imperialis not yet paft flowering, and we have nowfeveralforts of lris and Fritillaries, with fome FHlyacinths. We have alfo feveral kinds of Cyclamen, fome Stock.Gillyflowers and Single Ponies toward s the End; fome Double Violets yet remain, bat above all we are now rewarded with the duricula, whichis in its Prime about the G 2oth. wt) wl Monthly Directions for Ordering Way. sand Shrubs nowblowing erfian Feffamine, Laburnum, 'e- bloffom d Almonds, the Ar- and in ; and in rs, Cherries, and Abri- rhe Green.! the fe fome Green-Houle fome Ficoides, Aloes, and. nium, O Orang es, fome kinds of Gera spooded etetndarfed FENeateSeatedht, “OO shshehOT adicacate LEC ME ELE R prorpp ipips SOALEL farts RR RR ups repe r? pote done in the Green Houfe and ‘ower-Garden in M A T. Dap, the Green-Houfe and Flower-Garden. 83 Our choice 7ulips are now in Flower, and muft be fhaded from the Mid-day Sun, and defended from the Rain, if we are minded to have them laft a long time in Flower 3 when they have done blowing, break off their Sced-Pods, thar the Roots may gather Strength. Ifany one has a mind to dry fome of his choicett Zulip Leaves, he muh provide Books of Brown Paper, and Jay the Leaves of the Flowers fingly between the Leaves ofthe Book ; when they have been in this State for a Day prefs’d down by a very gentle C /T down the Leaves and Flower-Stems S41 of Crocus, and other bulbous-rooted Flowers that have done blowing, unlefs Book, and removed in like manner from and indeed I would advife every curious Perfon to fave fome of thebeft every Year, fine, when all the Moiflure is out of them, you defign any of them to and for Seed; to have Nurferies of Seedlings of every Flower, for from fuch Seminaries we may expect numberlefs Varieties Gather now your Avemonie Seed as it ripens, for it is quickly carried awa y by the moit gentle Air. About the tenth is the beft time to fow Carnat ion Seeds, for if they were to be put fooner into the Ground, they would gro woody before Winter, and manyof thew m canker and go off. Let the Earth befr eth fandy Loam well fifted. Our Weight, they muft be thifted into a freth one Book to another every 24 Hours, adding more Weight as they grow dryer: In we maythen ftick them upon thick White Paper, with a little Gum-Arabic and fair Water, and they will hold their Colours for many Months. I the rather mention this way of drying Plants and Flowersat this time, becaufe every Lover of Botany is not perhaps rightly skilled in preferving Speci- mens of Plants, and alfo becaufe this Month affords us greater Variety of Plants for that Purpofe than any other Monthin the whole Year. Be nowcareful to tie up the Spindles of your Carnations, left they are broken by the Winds or other Accidents, G2 Repeat tu WA 84. Monthly Directions for Ordering Way. Repeat the fowing of many annual Flow- ers, fuch as the {mall Annual Stock, Venus Looking Glafs and Candy Tufts, giving them frequent Waterings (if the Weather be dry) till they come up. About the fifteenth, if the Weather be gentle and fertled, which is (as fome fay) when the Mulberry-Leaves are as large asa Crow's Foot, bring your Orange and Lemon Trees out of the Confervatory. What I here mention of the Muléerry’s indicating to us the proper time for bringing abroad our tender Plants, has, in my Opinion, Reafon enough in it,(tho’ fome will not allowit as a fure Rule to go by;) for the Mulberry: Tree, which is a foreign Plant, and has a thicker Juice than any other Tree that I know of, requires (as we find) a fettled Warmth and equal Temperature of Air to put its Juices into Motion; and as that Mo- tion cannot in a fewDays thewit felf in the Production of the Leaves, and would ftop upon the leaft Appearance of Froft, fo of Map. the Grsen-Houfe and Flower-Gardens, 5 a thing worthy our Remark, how many different Degrees of Heat or Cold are ne- ceflary to the Vegetation of feveral Kinds of Plants. The Temper of Air in January pufhes forth the Buds of the Alder Trees the greater Warmth in February puts the Goofeberry-Bufh and fomeforts of the Quick fet in Motion ; in March we fee the Blofloms of theAlmond and Peach-Tree; in April, the Elm and fome others begin to open their Leaves, and the AMu/éerry will not ftir till the Weather of this Month is fettled; and every Plant may perhaps require a diftin& Degree of Heat or Cold (call it what we will) to make it vegetate. This is not unlike what we obferve in Melting or Liquifying of. Metalick and other Bodies. Ice will melt with lefs Heat than Tallow, Tallow with lefs Heat than Wax, Wax with lefs Heat than Rofin, Rofin than Lead or Tin, and thefe will melt with lefs Heat than other Metals. Upon bringing out your Orange-Trees and Confequence when we fee the Leaves of other Exoticks, clean their Leaves from the State, and therefore our Orange-Trees may Pots or Cafes, and water them well when this Tree arrived at the Largenefs of a Crow's Foot, we may be aflured the Wea: ther has been for fome time in a gentle then come abroad with Safety ; for we have had no Inftance of Weather that has been capable ofinjuring the Orange Tree after en: joying a ferene Week in this.Month. Ik is a thing Duft they have got in the Houle, unlefs a gentle Shower faves you that Trouble; give them alfo frefh Earth on the Surface of their they are placed in the Order they fhould ftland. Let not the Sun fhine too hot upon Your Orange-Trees, for that will make their “aves turn yellow. G 3 Now ut) vA 85 Monthly Directions for Ordering Way, Now make Cuttings of Ficoides and Se- ere ke a aye ee dums, letting fuch of them as are very fucculent lie a Day or twoin the Sun after they are cut from the Plants, to dry the wound- Apap. the Green-Houfe.and Flower-Garden. 87 Such as are minded to build Green-Houfes for the ufe of the next Winter, fhould not any longer delay that Work, feaft the Walls ughly dry when the Plants and | cannot help taking much the Intent of fuch cd.Parts, and then plant them in an open Border to be potted after they have ftruck Root, which Months. will be in lef§ than two Plant Cuttings of the Arabian Felfamine, theyeafily take Root, Plant Cuttings of Geraniums, and other o be regarded by the Arn1erto | have not’ feen one Green FLoufe in England which had the Beauty of a sood Building, and good C onveni- ence for the keeping of Plants at the fame fuch like Exotick Shrubs, in fome open Barder ; they will take Root better there tha n time, which is one Reafon why Gentlemen Orange and Lemon-Trees, rather upo n Le. Exotick Plants. Towards the End of this Month, or the Beginning of the next, cut fome Leaves of r in Pots. An: } A A _¢ Ab out the ten ’ th of- thi s Month ina rch mon than Orange Stocks, they will make {tronger Shoots: By this means we may have bearing Plants as fmall as we ple afe in a very thort time, for they may be cut from the Mother-Plants the middle of Aug uft. Alfo now inarch the Spanifh White Fefamine, and the Indian Leow Felfamine upon ftrong Stocks of the common White JEUSIMINE » and thele will not be take not upon fearful the that Stocks, pecauie our common Fefamine drop s its Leaves, and the others do not; I have experienced the Truth of it, as well as the in- cenating: the Laurel upon the Black Cherry sfOCK, WHICD grows very freely. Such have been difcouraged from the Culrure of the Opuntia or Indian Fig, etting themlie two or three Days to dry, before they are fet in the Ground. ‘The Earth for them fhould be fifted Rubbith of old Brick Walls one third, to be mingled with light rich Earth well fifted. Set thefe Leaves’ about an Inch in this Earth, and let them remaia abroad fifteen Days before yeu put them in a Hot-bed. When the Weather is fettled, tranfplant from the Hot-bed to the open Borders all your choice Annuals, as Capficums, African and French Marygolds, Aramanthus, Bafils, Convolvulus, &. G4 Plant wt) WA Monthly Diretlions for Ordering Way. Plant Cuttings of Pyracantha ofthe ten- sue, the Green-Houfe andFlower-Gardens, 89 der Shoots, and Cuttings of the Paffon-Tree in moift Places. Flowers now blowing in the Green-Honfe and Flower-Garden, Works to be done in the Green.Houfe and Flower-Garden in J UN E, ()° R choiceft Zuééps are nowin Flower, >» 7 “IS now a good time to take up fuch as alfo fome Stock Gilyflowers, Doues ble Wall Flowers, Monkshood, Szxgle Scarlet Lichme/s, Double Pinks, Sweetwiliams, Dou ble Tellow Globe- Flowers, Sea Pinks, Candy Tufts, Venus Looking-Glafs, Annual Stock , Perwiukle, Double Dafes and Featherfew, Foxe gloves, Muleins, Bulbous Tris, fome Anem o- wies and Ranunculus that were put late in the Ground, Double White Rocket, Honeyfuckles, Piracantha, Syringa, Rofes, Apple-Bloffoms, Spireas, Spanifh Broom, Guilder Rofes, Labu re num, Canterbury Bells, Cytiffus, Columbines, Lark/purs, Gladiolus, Poppies, Paonies, Fra- xinella, Valerian, Spiderworts, Cyanus, Antirrbinum Martagons, Lillies, Orchis, Tris, a leeeel oes Marygolds, {ome Lupines, Oranges, Ficoides, Aloes, Sedums, Geraniums; and in the Wate rTubs the 7eZow Nymphea or Water-Lily, Pond-¥ceds, Water. Ranunculus, the Flamula Or Spearwort, and Frogbits. bulbous Roots as have done blowing, Waih themcleanas foon as you have taken them out of the Ground, and fpread them upon Mats in the Sun, that they may be well dry’d before they are laid up in the Houfe. ‘Tis nowthe beft Seafon-ro tranfplant the Roots of Cyclamen, Saffron, and Colchicum. Nowvifit the Rivers, Bogs, Pools, Ponds, and Ditches: for choice Aquatick Plants. We may tranfplant them, although they are Flowering, into our Water-Tubs, which make a very pretty Show among Exotick and other curious Plants. When you col- let thefe Plants of the Waters, obferve the Depth of Water they growin, and allow them the fame, if poflible, when you plant them in the Tubs. Lay fuch of your Carvations as are {lrong enough, and carefully pick off their weak and moft tender Flower-Buds, for they rob the larger Pods of their Nourifhment. The large-podded Carzations, which common! burit, muft now be help‘d, efpecially after Nature VION) MO' 90 Monthly Directions for Ordering une, Nature of her felf has fplit one Side of the Flower-Pod, open the other Side of the Pod oppofite to it with a fine Pen-knife, but touch not the Petals or Flower-Leaves; this Method will make the Flower Open equally without fcattering, whichit certain- ly will do, if we were to {plit down every Divifion of the Pod. Alfo deftroy Earwigs with Oxhoofs and Tobacco-Pipes; for the Wayof guarding your Carnations from thefe deftructive Infects with Bafens and Troughs of Water, is oflittle Signification, becaufe they have Wings, though not eafily dif- cover'd. Gather Auricula and Polyanthes Seed, and preferve it in the Seed-Pods till you fow it. Zune, the Grees-Haufe and Flower-Garden, Or Alces ; plant them in the fame Earth mention’d above, and let them remain abroad fifteen Days before they are fet into a Hotbed. Give thefe fucculear Plants little Watertill chey have taken Root. Water Oranges (whichare now in Flower) frequently, a little ata time, that Fruit may fet ; and pick off the Bloffoms where the are too thick. Nowyou canhardly give your Myrtles too much Water; remember they naturally grow in Marthy Ground. Continue to tranfplant Annualsafter Rain, and fow others to fucceed thofe fownin the former Months. Flowers now blowing in the Green-Houfe and Flower-Garden, Bring abroad your Alves, Torch-Thifles, Oe aeeee besidestint Stati eeta Euphortiums, and tender Tithymals, and clean them from the Duft they have contracted in the Houfe: Alfo pull off with Care the decayed Leaves of your 4/ces, and trant- plant them, if there is Occafion, into bigger Pots. We may now take of Cuttings of the Euphorbium and Torch-Thiftle, \etting them lie in the Sun till the Wounds are healed, before we put them into the Ground: Let the Farth for them be the fame as I directed for the Zudian Fig, Now take off the Offfets. and Suckers growing about the Roots and Stems of your Aloes, \ E have now blowing African and French Marygolds, Convolvolus, Fe- male Balfams, Amaranthus, Lark{purs, Candy Tufts, Venus Looking-glafs, Annual Stocks, Stock Gillyflowers, Double Scarlet Lychnefs, Rofe Campions, Sweetwiliams, Campanulas, Foxgloves, Muleins, Moth Muleins, Sea-Pinks, Double Pinks, Virgins Bower, Perwinkle, Cyanus, Lillies, Martagons, Monkshood, Suns Flowers, Hollyhocks, Naftertium Indicum, Gen- tian, Virginian Spiderwort, Scarlet Beans, Sweet Sultan, Poppies, Pomegranates, Olives, Oranges, Lemons, Geraniums, Ficoides, Se dums, Fritillaria Craffa, Rofes, Hloney/uckles, Felja- wt) MO' ; So 1 Monthly Directioed ns for Ordering 92 July, mine, Oleander, Spanifh Broom, Frellebore Indian Fig, fome Carnations,, Double-flower'd Featherfew, Valerian, Sea Ragwort, Orchis Antirrhinum. Lupines, and China Pinks In the Water-Tubs we have the Double White Nymphea or Water-Lilly, the Single TeLow the Vater Violet and Water Millfoil the Flower. o¢. o 6 eae P52 ie 5 el be be done in; the Green: Houfe and Flower-Garden in JU LT. \ JE may yet continue to lay Carnations J as they gather Strength, and often —. them with Water, fhading the Blof 7 % ba ; from the violent Heat of the Sun . Phan ontinu ttet to def 2 troy Wee ‘eeds, ne a lea taeet Sow alfo fome Anemony Seed as directed ia February, and {prinkle it often with Water, Clip for the fecond time Box-Edgings. Continue to make Cuttings of Zorche Thiftles, indian Figs, Fig-Marygolds, Tythimals, Sedums, and other fucculentPlants. Give frefh Earth to the Surface of your Orange Tubs, which Work fhould be done . Wor Vorksks Gulp. che Green-Honfe-and Flower-Gardens. 93 and cut kiower-Stems of fuch curiou s Flowers as have don are worth faving forSee d MAioe ae is the beft time to raife Myrtles of Sk onkiett only the meats 5 fe moft tender em in the Shade, and give them frequent Waterings, Tranfplant nowfuch Bulbs as you took not ou t of the Ground the laft Mont h. _, We may fow Tulip Seeds, which are now ripe, in Cafes of light Earth, that they may be carried under fome Shelter in the Wi nter Sew at leaft four times a Year. About the.2oth inoculate Orazges rather upon Lemon Stocks than anyother. This is the time when the Berries of the Coffee-Tree ripen; they are then of a bright red Colour, and may be gather’d for fowing immediately, cleaning their Seeds from the Pulp: Set them fingly about an Inch deep in Pots of fine Earth, and give them the Affitance of a Hot-bed, by which means theywill fproutin lefs than fix Weeks time, as | have feen at the Phyfick-Garden at Amfterdam. This Plant being a great Rarity, fee the Figure ofit Plate I. Fig. Il. The Fruit of the Avanas being ripe about this time, cut off the Crown of Leaves which grows on the top of it, and plant it in light fandy Earth, it will prefently ftrike Root with the Affiftance of a Hot-bed. Ve mayalfo now lay down young Shoots of the Arabian Feffamine. Tie up and prune all your Exotick Plants Which grow diforderly; they will be cover’d with freth Shoots before they are fet into the Houle. Gather tT) A il, Quy. the Green- Houfe and Flower-Gardens. 95 Gather fuch Flower-Seeds as are now ripe, drying them well in their Seed-Veflels before they are beaten out, and even after Beans, {ome Double Poppies, Gentian, Fraxinella, Naftertium Indicum, Veronica, Nigilla, Chrifanthemum, Lupines, Stock Gillyflowers, Spiderwort, Indian Figgs, Arbutus, and fome Monthly Directions for Ordering that, dry themin the Sun for a Week or ten Days before you lay them up, fore lfe they ; 7 will be {uo1ect of the late fown Annuals, to rot. Yet fow fome Annuals in Edgings, to blow in September, for then ae oh oh oh oh oh hh th hh wh Hh He € HUI 5. ICUEIMHEIULICHEIIEICT HICH LITE TET HEITOR Yer, ateresee the Garden 269162626963 CIES ECA IEAEDAIED Ga EDACO 6963/6 9 TERK Pee eS ES LSS eS AED wants Flowers. Works to be done in the Green-Houfe and ] as t } . . ] Flow ers now blow ing in the Green-Houfe ana prs RAD Floz ; UWCT-FaT AEH, r eos HE beginning of this Month is a good FE Carnation is now the Gloryof the Flower Garden, and the Seedlings of Seafon for parting Auricula’s, that they may gather fufficient Strength before that Flower offers fomething new every Day. The other Flowers nowblowit gare Oranges, Spring. Rather plant one fingle Head in each Pot than covet many, for where we Oleander s, Gera- expect thre Bloffoms will be fmall. ‘Tis now a propertime to tranfplant your Seedling Auricula’s about five Inches apart, upon a Border of well fifted Earth; give them a gentle fprinkling of Water after Lemons, Myrtles, Coluteas. ninms, Paffion Flowers of feveral kinds, Feffa- mine Of Arabia, Brafil Feffamine, common White Feffamine, Pomegranates; Olives, Capers, Bean Caper, Ficoides, fome Alves, Sedums, Dittany, fome Rofes, Amomum linii, ee aed Flower-Garden in AUG US T. Convolvulus, Amaranths, African and French Marygold, Tulip-Tree; Golden Rod, Fritillaria Craffa, Apocinum feveral forts, A/phodel, Tuberofes, Cardinal Flower, Double Scarlet Lychnefs, leave more than one upon a Root, we mug planting, and fhade them from the Sun with Mats for fifteen Days. Nowalfo tranfplant your Seedling Polyantbos upon a fhady Border, and divide the Campanulas, Virgins Bower, Sweet Sultans, old Roots. Eagle Flower, China Pinks, Sun-flowers, Holly- lris, Fritillaries, and Ranunculus, it is now Capftcum, Marvel of Peru, Female Balfams, hocks, Foxgloves, Everlafting Flowers, Scarlet Beans, It we have any good Seeds of bulbous a very proper Seafon to fow them, covering the Seeds with a thin Coat offine fifted VION) A 96 Monthly Directions for Ordering Quy, fifted Earth. Note, Thefe and all other Seeds of bulbous Flowers, fhould have frequent Sprinklings of Water during the Summer Heats, and be cover'd with Mats in the Winter. Seminaries ofthis kind will reward our Patience with great Variety of beautiful Flowers.. Note alfo, The beft Ranunculus Seed comes from France. Shade your Auemony and Tulip Seed, which was {own in the preceding Month. Plant Single Anemonies, and we may now tranfplant 7Zyacinths, Narciffus, Lilies, Martagons, Crocus, and Snowdrops. : Cut down the wither’d Stalks of fuch Flowers as have done blowing, and we may nowpart their Roots for Increafe. Gather Seeds in a dry Day: The middle of the Month, or fomewhat later, cut the inarch’d Orage Stocks from the bearing Trees, but be careful you do it gently, for fear of breaking the newgraffed a oe le en Branch from the Stock; leave the Clay up- on themtill the following Spring, and guard them from high Winds. It is now a good Seafon to tranfplant Myrtles and Orange Trees, if that Work was not done in the Spring. Ufe not your Cuttings of Zorch-Thiftles, Aloes, Indian Figgs, &c. too tenderly in the Hot-beds; give them Air that they may harden againft the Winter. Plant Quy, the Green-Hoxfe and Flower-Gardens. 97 Plant Slips of Pinks in a Nurfery, to plane out the following Summer. We may now make Layers ofall forts of Shrubs and Trees which remain abroad all Winter, always minding to lay down the moft tender Shoots. Towards the End take off and plant out fuch of your Carnation Layers as are well rooted ; fet them now in the Places where they are to blow, the Flowers will be much ftronger than if they were to be planted in the Spring. Alfo in this Month we may lay fuch Carnations as were not ftrong endfgh in the former Month, but thele will not be fit to tranfplant till March next. Tran{plant feedling Carnations at a Foot diftance, If we find any old Roots of Carnations which are difpofed to blow late, put them now in Pots of frefh Earth to fet into the Green-Houfe in Odfober; I have often by that means had good Flowers the greateft Part of the Winter. Now fet into the Houfe your Alves, Lorch-Thiftles, Euphorbiums, and other fuch tender fucculent Plants. 7] Monthly Direttions for Ordering Tiny, Sept. the Green-Houfe and Flower-Garden. 99 Flowers now blowing in the Green-Houfe and Flower-Garden, % JE have yet fome Carnations, with Y VY Sun-Flowers and Hollyhocks, Rofes, Pomegranates, Arbutus, Feffamines, the Common White, Spanifh White, BrahlWhite, In- dian Tellow, and Arabian Felfamine both Double and Single, Oranges, Myrtles, Oleander, Apocinum, Ficoides of many kinds, fome Aloes, Paffion- Flowers of various forts, fome Sedums, Geranium, Tree-Mallows, Colutea, Guernfey Lilly, Tuberofes, Cardinal Flower, Female Balfam, Marvel of Peru, Chrifanthemum, Everlafting Flowers, Colchicams, Au- tumn Tellow Crocus, Cyclamens, Africanand French Marygolds, Convolvulus, Capficum, Starworts, Amaranrhs, Nigilla, Sweet Sultan, Scabious, Naftertium Indicum, Linaria, Stock Gillyflowers, Eringo, Virgins Bower, and thofe Annuals fown late, Annual Stock, Poppies, Lark{pur, Candy-Tufts, &c. Alfo we have Double Violets, {ome Auriculas, and Polyanthus, which now feeling a Temper of Air equal ; : eke hori] \“ to their natural blowing Seafon, (i.e. April) are led to bring forth their Flowers at this time Works to. be done in the Green Houfe and Flower-Garden inSEPTEMBER. JOU have now feveral kinds of Flowers rifing to a conftderable Height; therefore to prevent Hazards by the Winds, tie them carefully to Stakes, for if Plants are loofe, a little Wind injures them. If youhave not in the preceding Month taken off your Carnation Layers, defer that Work no longer, but be fure to plant them in the Places where they are to bloffom, you will find the Advantage by fo doing. Now fow Poppies, Lark/purs, Annual Stock, Candy-Tufts, and Venus Locking -Glafs, to ftand the Winter, and bloffom early in the Spring. The firft Week in this Month we may yet continue to plant Evergreens, fuch as Follies, Tews, &kc. if they rife with good Roots, but Awguff is much the better Sea- {on. Yet tranfplant flowering Shrubs of all forts, and make Layers of them. We mayftill continue to tranfplant all Flowers whichare fiberous rooted, and have done blowing. Alfo cut down the FlowerStems ofthofe which are to remain growing, Within three Inches of the Ground. H 2 * Monthly Direétions for Ordering Dept, "Tis now a good time to put into the Ground fome Avemone and Rauunculus Roots to blowearly; let the Earth be a light na- tural Soil well fifted for the Anemonies, but the Ranunculas {hould have about half rot: ted Wood mixed withit. Dept, the Green. Houle andFlower-Gardens.1ox culus, Bulbous Jru, Martagons, Crocus, and F;ritahtarien. in Pots or Cale: of frefh natural Earth well fifted. Flowers now blowing in the Green-Houfe and Flower Gardens, About the See put in fome Zulips, efpe- cially the Breeders, but give them not rich Ground, remembring always ‘tis Want of Nourifhment is the Caufe of Variegations in Plants; therefore my Advice is to plant all breeding 7udips in Rubbith of old Buildings one half, and the reft natural Soil; or elfe fet them about your Pyramid Jews, which have ftood long enough to impoverith the Earth. Nowput into the Ground your Fusguel Roots, and let them ftand two or three Years in the fame Place. Sow Stock Gillyflowers that you mayhave a Supply in the Spring, if the Winter de- {} roys your old Stocks. They love a dry il se need — Soil, mix’d with Lime-Rubbifh About the middle of the Month, houfe vour Orange Trees, Geraniums, Ficoides, S dums, and others of the like tender Nateure 5: but fet them not in order till Ofober, tha you may bring in your Adyrtiles and fuch iore hardy Plants. Let the Windowsof the loufe remain open Night and Day. nay yet fow the Seeds of bulbousAnemonies, Ranunas Zulips, | ) culus, 7 E have now in Flower the common Wbite Felfamine, the Sp.nif W,bite, the [wdian Fellow, and the Bra/i/ 4efamines, Geraniums of feveral forts, various kinds o F Ficoides, Leonurus, Pafion- Flowers, {ome Aloes, Thlafpi Semper-virens, Amomum Plinii, Guernfey Lilly, Golden Apples, Amaranths, Cyclamens, Colcbicums, Antirhivum, Chrifanthemum, Sun-flowers, Follybocks, Tubeerofes, African and French Marygold, Double Violets, Marvel of Peru, Female Balfams, Convolvulus, Naftertium Indicum, Se Scarlet Beans, Saffron-Crocus, iho Larkf{purs, Annual Stock, Venus Looking- Glafs, Candy-Tufts, Stock Gillpflowers, fome Carnations, Auriculas, Polyanthes, China Pinks, Myrtles, Monthly Rofes, Afters of feveral kinds, ener Arbutus, Oleanders, Colutea, and Capficum Indicum. 7] Monthly Directions for Ordering MDetoh, 102 abit eds fre JviedsePreay chs: WAP CER Ee {Sty atspees fs es hyvePorfhoa & <enee EPPRCEDOOS ap %‘5 PREP SO OOSoe SpeePens to Vorks be done tl in the Green-Houfe and Flower-Garden in OCTOBER. YD WT the Beginning of this Month, cr) wT yufe yyour M;rtless Amomum Plinit, riacum, Meleauthus, and {uch ten- : 1s, aS remain yet abroad, at the fame time giving them and all other HoufeGre ns a lreth ¢rani: of Earth, without diflurbing their Roots: Tie up fuch as grow ‘iforderly. Tsk fetvbem in their proper Places to ftand the Winter, minding to fet the moft tender Plants, fuch as Aloes, TorchThifiles, Melon Thiftles, Eupborbium, &c. near- ett pte Sun, and the others which are more hardy towards the Back of the Houfe. After the middle of che Month give no more Wa- ter to your render fucculent Plants, for they are fubject to rot. Atthe Phecionssyour Exoticks in the Houfe, obferve that only one third Part of the Floor be taken up wiith the Shelves for the Plants, fo that there may be as much Vacancy lefr between them and the Windows, and the fame Space between them and the sack of the Houfe; this Proportion being obferved, the Houfe will not be fo fubje& to Damps as if it was crouded, and there will be Air en gQ contained in it to nourifh Drtob.the Green-Houfe and Flower-Garden.103 rith the Plants, if it was to be clofely fhut up a Month together. When you. water your. houfed Plants, let it be in the Morning when the Sun fhines upon them. Keep open the Windows of the Houfe Day and Nighttill about the fifteenth, and after that time open them only in the Daytime. Now make an end of putting in your Tulips, and plant alfo fome Azemonies and Ranunculus. Continue ftill to tranfplant and lay Refes and fuchlike flowering Shrubs. Alfo plant the Cuttings of Jeffamine and Honeyfuckle in fhady Borders, well wrought with a Spade, and be fure to bury at leafl two Joints of each Cutting in the Ground. We may now fow the Berries ss Tew, Holly, and fuch Evergreens as hav e been prepared in Earth or Sand. Set your Pots of Carnations, whichare now blowing, into the Green Houfe near the Door, where they may have the moft Air. So alfo in the placing your Exotick Plants in the Houfe, let the moft tender {tand the moft remote from the Door; the more hardywill bear the Air, efpecially the Ficoides; but ufe none of them with too much Tendernefs, for more Plants have been kill’d with too muchCare than have been preferved. H 4 Flowers i) 104 Monthly Directions for Ordering. Det, Flowers now biowing in the Green- Floufe and Flower-Garden. f AJ Ehave nowflowering fomeOranges, Y Myrtles; GeeeeeAm omum Plinii, SloV, the Green-Houfe and Flower-Gardens,.o5 IBSISES S? SRE CES SANS CAOot +) ceNC COS riS2eBae Works to be done in the Grees-Houfe and Flower-Garden in NOVEMBER. Apple, Aloes, Ficoides, or Fig-Marjlds, [ e€onurus, Apoc inums, Spamfh Feflamine, [ellow Feffamine, Brafil7Jefjamive, Comelfamine, Thlafpi Semper-virens, Pome- Arbutus, Aunemonies Single, PolyanCarnations, Stock Gullvflowers, Affers, hinum, Amaranths, Double Violets, Saf‘rocus, Colchicum, Monthly Roses, feveral yclamen, Pafftor-Trees of {everal is, African and French Marygolds, Marvel Pera, Capficum, Single Wallflowers, and fome Bulbs from the Cape of Good Hope, / elortle riye C, or Yoaha dT we ie Viola Tricolor. N this Month, if the Weather is not very fevere, open the Windowsofyour GreenHoufe a little, efpecially if the Sun fhines, and at the fame time give Water to fuch Plants as require it. Let all the Water you ufe to the houfed Plants be as fimple as poffible, for Mixtures of Dungs, or other hot Ingredients, fpoil your Plants. If Frofts fhould begin to fet in, make a fmall Fire of Charcoal, and when it burns clear, hang it up near the Windows; but-do this only at Night: Or indeed if you had the Convenienciency of one of thofe Chim- EE Fie we tien nies improved by the Reverend and Learned Mr. Defaguliers, it might be fet to Work upon this Occafion; ‘tis much the beft Invention that I knowof for warming a GreenHoufe. In this Month lay up Heaps of Earth for your feveral forts of Flowers, and make the proper Mixtures for the feveral Exoticks as have directed in the former Months. Where the Groundis too ftiff, and we defire a natural Mixture, to bring it to the State of Loam, we muft add to it a fufficient Quantity of Drift or Sea-Sand. Now i) Moxthly DireHions for Ordering ow 106 Now lay down your 4uricula Pots upon Woy. the Green-~Honfe andFlower-Garden. 107 their Side, the Plants towards the Sun, for Flowers now Blowing in the Green-Foufe and very injurious to them. Shelter your young feedling Bulbs from the Froft, but give them Air every Day, or HE Strip’d Lily is now fo beautiful, much Wet rots their Leaves, and Froft is they will go off. Ifthe Weather be open, we may yet tranfplant Rofes, Jeffamine and Honyfuckle, Syringa and Ly/ac. Now cut down the Stalks of Flowers that have done blowing, within three Inches of the Root; I mean fuch as blowtall, for Saffron, Cyclamen, and Colchicum, mult have their Herbage preferved till it naturally decays. Un-nail your Pafion-Trees from the Wall, and lay them upon the Ground, that when fevere Frof{ts come we may cover themwith straw. _ Tie up all Trees and Shrubs to ftakes, for the Wind of this Seafon breaks and de- Flower-Garden. that I cannot-help taking ‘Notice of it among the Flowers and Ornaments of We have now Blowing Laurus this Month. Tinus, fome Myrtles, Spanifh White Feffamine, Yellow Indian Fejamine, Candy-Tuft-Tree, Geraniums, Ficoides, fome Carnations in the Houle; Alves, the Amomum Plinii, with its pretty Scarlet Fruit, Leonurus, the Golden Apples, fome Pafion Flowers, Single Anemonies, Gentianella, fome Polyanthos, Stock Gilyflowers, and Double Violets. oR ORE 7 ° 9 NY, MCSE SS WORERETE : * TH we 2 > a7 SKE! Carel? =P Pre 2/06 a fa Aes ® oA a oe Nt 32 GY Works to be done in the Green-Houfe and Flower Garden in DECEMBER. ftroys fuch as are loofe and at liberty. We may about the Beginning, plant Aya- cixths, Junguils, and Narciffus, Polyanthos in Pots, and plunge them into Hot-beds to bloflom about Chriffmas. S no Plant can live without Air, a A Gardener muft now ac with Judgment in helping his Grees-Houfe Plants; for the Air Abroadis now fo fharp, that was it to be lett into the Houfe immediately upon the Plants, it would pinch many of them to Death ; and if the Plants were to Flowers be fhut up for any confiderable Time, without recruiting the Air in the Houfe, they would Ny 108. Monthly DireHions for Ordering Det. would be fuffocated; it is therefore ad- vifable to’ provide fome Means to recruit the Air in the Houfe, from Time to Time, as there is occafion with frefh Air, cor- rected in fach a manner, that it may feed the Plants without pinching their Rind or Bark, as the Air Abroad at this Seafon would do, if it was fuffer’d to blow immediately upon them without Correction. Therefore, at the End of every GreenFloufe, there ought to be an Antichamber; thro’ which we ought to pafs in the Winter, and not by the common Door or Windows m the Front: The Chamber which I now {peak of is recruited with frefh Air from Abroad every time we gointo it; and upoa opening the Door of that Room into the Green Floufe, the Air there mixing with the other, which has been pent up, impregnates it with new Parts, which contribute to the Vegetation or Growth of Plants : Nowto explain what I mean by by thefe Parts in the frefh Air, which are neceffary to the Growth of Plants, I muft have Recourfe to {ome Experiments which have been made upon Air, with refpect to the Nourifhment ot Animals, who are in manythings analogus to Plants: For Example, a Man who goes into a Diving-Tub, where he 1s clofely fhut up from’ Air, except only what the Dec. the Green-Hoafe and Flower-Gardens. 108 length he is in Danger of being {uffocated, anc can have no Relief but by the Admiffion of freth Air: This fhews us that in Air, there is fome particular Quality which is neceffary to preferve Life in Humane Bodies, and when that Quality is exhautted, the remaining Air becomes. ufelefs: So every one who knowsbut little of the Nature of Plants, has certainly taken Notice, shat a Plant, which has for fome time been de- barr’d from Air,turns fickly, lofes its Verdure, and often Janguifhes beyond Cure. But asain, we have another Experiment tending toconfirm the former,further explaining what that Quality is in the Air, which is neceffary to maintain Humane Life, which feems to be the fame, which is neceflary to maintain Fire or Flame: A lighted Candle, for Example, being fet under a Bell, clofcly fix’d upon a Lable, will burn perhaps a Minute or two in Proportion to the Quan- tity of Air pent up with the Candle in the Bell; but as foon as the Quality in that Air, which is neceflary to feed. the Flame, is exhaufted, the Candle goes out: This has been try’d too often to admit of any Difpute, that the Candle goes out by Chance : and we find that by. Jetting into the Bell (ome frefh Air, a little before the Candle fhould have gone out, it will ftill Tub contains, will after a little Space find continue burning; and then to fhew that the Air grow hotter and hotter, ‘till at length feeds this Quality in the Air is the fame which Uy nen 110. Monthly Directions for Ordering DUK, feeds the Life in Humane Bodies, it was try’'d, whether the Air, returning from the Lungs, would not have the fame Effect upon the Candle, as the External Air had before, but it had not ; the Candle went out at its ufual Time. ‘Thus it feems, when we fuck in Air for Breath, the Lungs takes what is neceflary for the Nourifhment of our Bodies, and returns back the reft. But I believe I have faid enough to explain what I defign’d,in pre(cribing the letting in of frefh Air, at every Opportunity, into the GreenHoufe, and fhall now proceed. Give little Water to your Green-Houfe Plants, and be fure remember this Rule, that Aloes, Euphorbiums, Indian Figs, Melon Thiftles, Torch Thiftles and Sedums, have aSe oteeean eee ieee = OE noneat all till March is almoft out. Provide Shelters for your tender Flowers, fuch as choice Avemonies and Rasunculus, fot nowthe great Frofts begin. Be not over hafty in warming your Green- Houfe with Artificial Heats, but let in as much Sun as poffible ; rather ftudy to keep the Froft from your Piants, than make them grow, for untimely Shoots {poil Plants. Pick off dead and rotted Leaves from your Exotick Plants, for they foon infec the whole. Flowers Det. the Green-Houfe and Flower-Gardens.11% Flowers now Blowing in the Green. Houfe and Flower- Garden. Ts HE Leaves of the Strip’d Lily are now very beautiful, equal to any Flower. We have now in Flower the Lauruftinus, the Glaftenbury Thorn, Geraniums Candy-Tuft-Tree, or Thlafpi Semper-virens, Yellow Indian Feffamine, Spani(h White Fef- famine, Cyclamen, Ficoides, Alves, fingle Auemonies, Stock-Gillyflowers, fingle WallFlowers, Autirhinum, Common Primrofes, Polyanthos 3 and in Fruit, the Arbutus, or Straw- bery-Tree, Amomum Plinii, Golden Apples, Oranges, Lemons, Citrons, Pyracantha, Olives arid Pomegranates; and in our Hod-Beds we have fome Hyaciuths and Narciffus. We have nowalfo in Flower the Black Hellebore, {ome Snowdrops, and the Winter Aconite. uy 3 NA i) wh ae ayelaon il —S SS iP N/R = RA DIN Syie? Lil 4 OX BANG A EEE ye SS CTE~ COINS ane aeect eee LAN \2 | ——_—— — Hato I, [beet] (l eh of Feels OPa A DESCRIPTION OFA GREE N-HOUS FB, CONTRIVED For the good keeping of Exotick Pha wre MaeMa ' in the Winter ; the Defigns by Seignior ~ Gaticet of Florence, I conceive the little Regard for y Exotick Plants is chiefly ow ing 4 to the Difficulties which Ge ntle yy men have met with in pref erving them in the Winter, fo I have endeavourd to lay down, fuch Rules for their Management, as may re nder the Man- ner of their Culture, eafy and familiar to every Lover of thofe Rarities; and wh en I confider how much the Beauty and Adva n- tage of the Orangery is owing to the good Condition of the Confervatory, I am the lefs furprifed to meet every Day with val u. able Collections of Trees half poif oned with Charcoal, or pinch’d to Death with the Frofts; and all this is owing to the il! Con- trivance of our Englifh Green-Houf es, as I have 114 A Defcription of a Green- Houfe. have mentioned in my New /mprovements, Part \li. Pag. 198. Tis therefore I have contulted with Seignior Galilei, a moft skillful Archite&, about compofing fuch a Green Houfe as might be agreeable to the Rules ot Archite@ure, and at the fame time be rightly adapted to the Welfare of Foreign Plants. Plate Il, is the Plan or Ground-Plat of a Green-Houfe, which will be fufficient with the following Directions to explain the Id AA and |Vth Plates, A and B are two Rooms at the Ends of the Green-Houfe for the Ufe of the Gar- Cener, or to be employ’d otherwife as our Fancy directs. Thete Rooms are Paflages into the Green-Houfe in the Winter, that the cold Air may not directlybe Jet in upon the Plants; a & in thofe Rooms are Places for Seeds, Inf{lruments, Papers, Books, Se. and thofe mark‘d c¢ ¢ for Beds. Cin the half Decagou are Benches for the moft tender Plants, fuch as Alves, &c. This Placeis ppointed for thofe Plants, becaufe enjoy the Sun from its Rifing till the Cupola being all Glafs toih, Wik till contribute co giv e ' i the Sun's Warmth, but the g, which {upport half che Cupola, JOE ar Kepi lranding at Pleafure; MOaments when the Plants are ave of no great Ule in oportines luppoy fing A Defcription ofa Green-Houfe. 11 5 fupporting the Cupola, the Roof alone may bear up that Part ofit. The Pillarsh2klm nop are of the Co rinthian Order, as are the others which fup. port the Cupola; they are.fo difpofed as to let the Sun pafs into the Houfe with very little Interruption, whichis the chiet thing to be confidered in the Comtrivance of Green-Houfe. The safhes of Glafs muft be of equal Height with the Pillars, and be fo difpoted, that they may flide eafily in their Frames up and down, as we have Occafion to give Air to the Plants in the Houfe; and they muft alfo be fo contrived, as to be flung up into the Freeze when the Plants are out of the Houfe, fo as to leave the Front open like a Portico or Colonade. The Windows alfo of the Freeze muft be made to flide down when we are difpofed to let in Air at the top of the Houfe, which is often neceflary. : The Sath-Frames likewife from the Pillar i too, may be made to runin Grooves, like the Scenes in a Theatre, fo that we may inclofe the Semi-Decagox when we give Air tothe others which are more hardy. DD are the Benches for the moft hardy Green-Houfe Plants, {uch as Oranges, Lemons, Myrtles, &c. they are fo difpofed as to ad- mit of Walks about them for Convenience of Watering I 2 E is ‘ 116 A Defcription of a Green-Houfe. E is aGrotto and Fountain, very ufeful for watering the Plants in the Winrer, for the Water in that Bafon will be fo temper'd with the warm Air of the Houfe, that it will be nourifhing to the Plants, which BOOKS Printed forW. Mears at the Lamb. without Temple-Bar, Water brought directly from without Doors would not be, but rather proveinjurious to “TEW Improvements in Planting and ae a them ; and I leave every one to judge how & | great an Ornamenc this will be, as well in Winter when the Plants are in the Houfe, «— “% Motion ofthe asp and Generation of Plants, with other Difcoveries never before made FPublick, for asin Summer when the Houle will be made a Roomof Entertainment. FF are two Chimneys, whichferve as well to warm the Rooms at the End of the Green-Houfe, as to con vey warm Air among the Plants. [See the Contrivance of thefe Chimneysiin the Reverend Mr. Defaguliers’s Book,entitled, Fires improved.] A Green- Ho ufe contrived after this manner has little need of Shutters to the Windows, for the Sun,and Heat from the Chi mneys witealways keep theAir in the Houfe fo warm, that the Frof{ts cannot do the Plants any Damage ; but in the moft rigorous Seafon we may only cover ase Windows in the half Cxpola with Straw Mats, for the Plants there, are of the mol tenader Sorts. hus I have endeavoured to explain the Ufe of this Green-Houte,\ hichis fo ingenioufly difpofed by Seignior onLILEL: See the Section and the U Jpright of it, Plate {il. and IV. both Philofophical and Pr actical, explaining the the iimp rovement of Foret. T ees, Flower-Gardens, or Parterrs; figns with a New Invention, whereby more De- o £ Garden Plats be made in an Hour, than can be Foune in all the Books nowextant. 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