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Show muft fcatter your Seeds pretty thin; forif wards becomes a Pod fomewhat plain, Shap’d like a Horn, and full of Seeds, for the moft part Rhomboid or Kid. apd. The Species are} your Plants are fix Inches afunder in the Rows, it will be full near enough ; but however, you muft expe& fome of your Seeds to mon Fenugreek fail; and therefore you fhould fcatter them about two Inches Diftance; then cover the Seeds about half an Inch thick with Earth; Fenugreek. laying it fmooth : Thefe Rills fhould be made fixteen Inches afnnder, or more, that there may be Room to clear the Ground, as alfo to earth up the Plants when they are full grown. When the Plants come up, which will be in about three Weeks or a Month after fowing, you muft with a fmall Hoe cut up all the Weeds between them, and cut out the Plants to about four Inches Diftance; and as they advance, A niceeeaitdidaadagwee /fylveftre, alterum polyceration. C. B. Another wild Fenugreek with manyPods. There are feveral other Varieties ofthis Plant, whichare preferv’d in curious Botanick Gardens: butas they are Plants of little Ule or Beauty, fol fhall omit mentioning them here. The firft Sort here mention’d, is that of which the Seeds are us’d in Medicine. The other two Sorts are Varieties which Ground, which Part fhould be earth’d up in the manner of Cel,lery,. ye blanch about a Fortnight beforeit is us'd, andthiswill caufe it it to ies very tender and crifp. Your fecond Crop thould be fown about three Weeks after the firft, and fo continue fowing every three Weeks or a Month ’till July ipon a light Soil, and in If your Kind be good, the after which Time it will be too late F The Plants, when they come up, eee) fingled out to about four or five Inches Diftance each way: And the Ground fhould be conftant ly kept clear from to grow, would the Plants: Bue you muft ob{ferve,thefe Plants will not bear tran{pl anting, therefore they fhould be fown in the Places where theyare 1 une they aul flower, and for the Plants to come to anyPerfeétion. But you fhould obferve to fowin April and May on amoifter Soil than that which you fow ‘ the firft on: As alfo what you fow iin the Ilatter part of Sune, or the Beginning of ly, fhould be fown ona drier Soil, and in a ner Situation; becanfe this Crop. will be fit for Ute till late in the Autnumn, hereforewill be fubje@ to Eontaes from BOO much wet or cold Weather, if on a moift But as the Ground is very often exJ Fune and Fuly, and fo the Seeds apt to mifcarry, or not tocome up, 1 fhould therefore obferve to water and de the Beds where this Seedis fownatt hat Seafon until the Plants come up. A ft all Bedof this Plant will be fuficient at each Sowing for a midd! ing F amily; and for a large Family, a Bed of about twenty Feet tong and four Feet broad will be f enough at atime. ‘ FOENUM GRECUM, Gres san Hay, is ! becaufe being dry’d, it looks like the Seeds were broughit from Greece, id Buceras, from Bes an Ox t q: d. if Hoy a, from eat q. d. Goat *s- Horns from enugreck, Jes the Pointal, which after- le Confufion to the Eye, making them appear to be more in Number than really they are. Sce Get d Hau, Springs, Vapours, Water, &c. aromatick Scent.] Strawberry. The Charatters are It hath a perennnial fibrofe Root : The Leaves vein'd, growing upon each Foot-Stalk: The lks trail upon the Ground: The Cup of the Rs syone Leaf, which is divided 1 expands in Form of a ts for the moft part of Wood-Strawberry, Wood-Strawberry. . FRAGARYA; fisuttn albo,C. B. Common uvberry, with white Fruit. 3. Fracarta;a parvi prunt dine. \C. B. the Hautboy fixteen or eighteen Inches Diftance each Way, and the Chili Strawberry twenty Inches or two Feet: In the Springof the Year, whenthe Straw= berries begin to flower, if the Seafon be dry, you muft obferve to water them plentifally, otherwife the Flowers will fall away without producing any Fruit. he Haut-boy Beds, m y, that the Plants m Efessibetore ny FOLIATION is one of the Parts of 2 Flower of a Plant, be Colleaion of thofe fine-colour'd Leaves which conftitute the Compafs of the Flower. nts where they the Walks between rowalittle fine came off in Earth over en the Plants, being very it fo thick as to bury the greatly ftrengthen them, their Fruit to be larger andin uantities than they would be ifleft Rules will be fufficient, if duly rv'd, for cultivating thefe Plants. I would 5 Re Dots that when th oesoff, the Ground. 1 nted February; i bury Bottom; an Strawbert The bef Seafon for this are Sources Youmutft alfo care!fully Roots, pulli g out all V too clofe ; then ddig u 4 Fra 3 Virginiana, fruttu coce: M..H. Vv irgiinten Strawberry, with Sc Fruit. , frutlu maximo, Frez. here, being cold wet Summers. FOOT-HUSKSare fhort Heads out of leaf clean yout Beds ofStrawberries from Weeds ud in Form of a Rofe, from time to time, as theyfhall require; for Stamina in the Middle, round if they are once fuffer'd to over-bear the Plants, they will decayin large Patches, and The Fruit is globofe ov hy, eatable Pulp, full of alfo greatly weaken all| thofe that may continueal . About Michaelmas you fhould clear off all the Weeds from the Beds, asalfo The Species are ; 1. Fracaria; v is C. B. Common or cut off all the Strings or Runners from the rts of Strc sin di the Plants are ardens, by which the which Flowers grow. which is of the Growth, the other large growing Kinds muft have a greater Share of Room, ‘according to their different Degrees of Growth; as “for Example, the Scarlet Strawberry fhould be planted a Foot {quare Plant from Plant, and in the Sou inay alfo be but then if the will require to preferve th only farther obferve, that thefe Beds will not ue bearing well more than three Years, therefore in order to have a conftant Supply, you fhould plant afrefh Plat of Ground a Year efore you deftroy the old Beds, otherw leat young Plantation producing few or no ; firft Year) you will be deftitute a vberry is by many-~ People the Firmnefs of its Fruit and Deof Flavour: Others gre arly admire the for its Goodnels he Hautfteem’d for the La eoale of its Fruit. strawberry was broug filt into 1g Out of the Gre ach IPTINGS. Of Artif sith FOENUM BURGUNDIACUM : Medica Sativa. the Diftance here affign’d, being for the FRAGARIA; [is fo call’d for its fragant, 3. Fornum Graccum; are preferv’d in fome Gardens. They may ted by fowing their Seeds in rable Bulk juft above the Surface of the eddie Fornum Gracum; /ylvefive C. B. Wild and the Weeds fpring Stems of the Plants will increafe to a confide- ¥ 2, again, fo they fhouldy from Time to Time, be hoe’d: Andat the laft Timeof thinning them, they fhould beleft fix or feven Inches afunderat leaft. Ari govoggogs 1. Fornum Grecum; Jativum, C. B. Com~ range all ina Line one with another; which is the Beauty of them; for this occafions an fm of which no j | 51 will not dwell upon it : I may sie, that they are not only gre Ornaments to a fine Garden, buta Ufe. P. would not be fo fruitful ; — ind t d from the Rootsof fter it is levell'd ev But they ought not to be near the Honfe, by reafon of that arife from the Water, which m to ftrike a Damp to the Walls, and {poil Paintings, © and the Summer Vapours may @ a Malignity in the Air, and judicial to the Health of the I likewife the Noife ma y be incommoai0 the Night. For buted, that they m one Time, and thac fe the Waterefpouts * Foot afun Rows they fhould es diftant P] planted Time be fo thic e¢ Room to thr King, and given to he oe de >rofeffor of Botany to the Royal who hath {pread it into diThis Plant Monfieur tivated in the Fields near Y> gad that it differss from , in havit and fometimes, as hred Colour, and te than our Wood has produce’d Fruit feveral rden at Paris, where d me, it was commonly I brought fome of Anno 1727, which eedingly, but as yet I thes the laft Seafon, | great Numbers of Flowers, bial ~ a thallow Rill by a Line, into which you PR SS levell’d the Ground {mooth, you fhould make FR a FO FO |
