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Show nt i JA re es ne Thefe Plants areall affirm’d by Pere Plumier quire no farther Care but to fupport them from being broke down by the Winds, which to be different Sorts ofJalap ; but the pent) they are very fubject to be, efpecially when Sort, he fays, is the particular Plant, whofe Root is commonly us’d in Medicine. But I their Headsare large. The Plants thus rais’d, will grow to the have been fince informed by my worthy Height of three or four Feet, and fpread their Friend Mr. William Houftoun, that the Jalap Branches very wide, (efpecially if the Roots is the Root of a Convolvulus, and is not have Room in the Pots) andtheir Flowers will akin to either of thefe Plants begin to appear in Tune, and they will continue conftantly flowering until the Froft prevents them; which, together with the great Diverfity of Colours in the Flowers upon the fame Plant, renders them valuable to every ee bu LM didikta JANUARY: Work to be Garden. done in the Kitchen If the Weatherbe open, you mutt continue curious Perfon. ‘The Flowers of thefe Plants dunging and trenching of your Quarters for never expand in the Day-time while the Sun fuch Crops as are to be fown or planted the is hot, but in the Evening, when the Sunde- fucceeding Months; and in warm Banks fituclines, they begin to open, and do continue ated under Walls, Pales or Hedges, you may expanded until the Sun fhines warm upon them plant yourfirft Crop of Wind/or Beans, as allo the next Day, fo that whenit happens to be fome carly Peas to fucceed thole fown in cloudy Weather, as alfo late in the Autumn, Autumn ; fow Spinage, Radifhes, Carrots, and when the Weather is cool, the Flowers will early Salletting on warm Borders, and make Hot-beds to fow early Cucumbers and Melons, Temain open moft Part of the Day. As the Flowers are produc’d fucceffively as alfo for d/paragus to fucceed thofe made in almoft every Day, fo the Seeds are in a fhort December. You muft nowlook carefully after your timeafter ripe, and do foon fall to the Ground ; fo that whenyour Seeds begin to ripen, you Cauliflower Plants and Le Ce, which -were muft carefully look for them upon the Ground planted under Glafles in Odfober, to give them twice a Week, otherwife, if theylie too long Air ifthe Weatherbe mild; asal{o to pick off upon the Ground, and there fhould fall fome all rotten or decay’d Leaves, which if {uffer’d Rain, they will fprout, and be good for no- to remain uponthe Plants, veryoften deftroy thing: In fowing thefe Seeds, you fhould be them. : : Towards the latter Endof this Month(if the careful to take them from fuch Plants as produc’d the greateft Variety of Flowers; for Weather be mild) you maytranfplant Cal if you fave them from fuch as produce only bages, Carrots, Parfnips, and Ti ips for Seed; plain-colour’d Flowers, the Seeds will always obferving to ha g up the Cabbages by their produce the fame Sort, and thofe with yellow Stalks two or three Days in a dry Place, that and red variegated Flowers will conftantly the Moifture maydrainout from between their produce the fame, thefe never varying from Leaves, otherwife it will be apt to rot them. the Red and Yellow to the Purple and White, If this Month fhould prove hard Froft, (as though they will fometimes degenerate into it often happens) you muft carefully cover plain yellow or red Flowers, as will the other your tender Plants to fecure them therefrom ; into plain Purple or White, but they will and you may wheel Dung uponthe Ground, conftantly retain one or both oftheir original tye and repair Reed-Hedges, and prepare yout Colours. bs Seeds againft the Alteration of the Weather, Altho’ in the above-written Culture of thefe when your Time will be fully employ’d in Plants, I have direéted their Seeds to be fown putting them into the Ground. on a Hot-bed, yet they may be propagated by fowing them in a warm Border of light Earth toward the latter End of March; an when the Plants come up, they fhould be tranf planted as before dire€ted: In which Method theywill fugceed very well, but will not flower Product of the Kitchen-Garden. You have now Cabbages, Savoys. : Parfnips, Turnips, Carrots, Potatoes, Leeks, Cellery, Endive, Onions, Garlick, sSbal0ts, fo foon by a Month or fix Weeks as thofé Beets, Skirrets, Boor-cole, and Spinage: And in Hot-beds, A/paragus, which was planted in taisd on the Hot-bed, nor will the Plants November ; as alfo divers Sorts of Sallet-herh growfo large, Whenthe Froft has pinch’d the Leaves and as Lettuce, Creffes, Turnip, Rape, Rat Stems of thefe Plants, you fhould take up their Muftard, and Mint. Roots, which fhould belaid to dry, and then Work to be done in the Fruit-Garden. may be preferv’d in dry Sand all the Winter if fecur’d from the Froft ; and in the following Spring thefe Roots fhould be planted into oo and plung’d into a moderate Hot> promote their taking Root ; and “i Shoots appear above-ground, they when fhould Payareneoe, he Seeding the open Air. Air “ah éNe degrees to endure Plants fo rais’d will be mnucee asl hlaEe rger tha e n the Seed €edl ];ings, and will i flower If the Weather fhould prove frofty muft lay Mulch round theRoots of {uch Fr Trees as were planted the Offober before, P'o- vided it is not done already, and cover your Fig-Trees againft the Walls, which will pre ferve their tender Shoots, and not only caule the Fruit to come out early, but the Trees will produce a greater Quantity In mild Weather youma all hardy Fruit-Trees, as Pe Prune up Wildernef-Trees, and dig up the Vines ; but it will be better to defer all StoneFruits till the next Month: Towards the latter Ground in the Quarters, which will preferve End of this Month, you maycut Grafts of all it from being over-run with noxious Weeds; early Fruit-Trees, laying them in the Earth and in mild Weather, prepare your Ground until next Month, when it will be a proper for fuch Fibrofe-rooted Plants as are to be tranfplanted the next Month, and provide Seafon for grafting them. You fhould alfo prepare fuch Bordersas are fome Dung to make Hot-beds for fowing andefign’d to be planted with Fruit-Trees the nual Plantsand Flowers. Turn over your Heaps of Compoft, that next Month, bylaying therein a good Quantity of frefh Earth, ftirring andlevelling it as the Froft may mellow and break the Clods; and continue to make new Parcels at this Seait is to remain, Prune all Standard or Orchard Fruit-Trees, fon for a conftant Supply. by cutting off all decay’d Branches, and fuch Plants now in Flower in the open Air. as are very luxuriant, or that lie crofs each Winter Aconite, Helleborafer, True Black 7 other, and are ill fituated. Mend and Repair all your decay’d Efpaliers Hellebore, fome fingle Anemonies, Early Winter with new Poles, and plafh and tie your Fruit- Hyacinth, Polyanthus’s, Primrofe, Suow-drops ; Treesthereto, obferving to train their Branches and, in a warm Situation, the Round-leavd Spring Cyclamen, and Duke Van Tol Tulip. horizontally, and at proper Diftances. Fruits in Prime, and now lafting. Pears; St.Germain, Virgouleé, Winter Bon- cretien, Colmar, Double-Flower, Epine & Hyver, Martin Sec, Royal ad’Hyver, Citron d’Hyver, Aubrette, Mervaille d’ Hyver, with many others of lefs Note : And for Baking, the Cardillac, Black Pear of Worcefter, Englfo Warden and Pickering. Trees and Shrubs now in Flower. Laurus-tinus, Glaftenbury-Thorn, Mezerion, Clematitis Bowtica, Strawberry-Iree, Cornelian Cherry, &c. Work to be done in the Green-houfe. Pick off all wither’d and mouldy Leaves, which by remaining on, corrupt the Air and Apples ; Golden Pippen, Nonpareil, French Pippen, Golden Ruffet, Wheeler's Ruffet, Pile's infe& the Plants: You muft nowcarefully guard againft Froft, and keep the Heat of your Stoves up to a due Temperature of matick Pippen, Harvey Apple, Winter Pearmain, Warmth: Water nowverygently, and always Monfirous Rennet, Pear Ruffet, Aromatick Ruf- let your Water remain in the Houfe, at leaft, fet, with many others. Alfo Nuts, Almonds, twenty-four Hours before it be us’d : In very Services, and {ome Medlars. damp Weather you fhould make gentle Fires to dry up the Damps of your Green-houfe, Work to be done in the Pleafure-Garden and eipecially ina great Thaw, for if thecold VaWildernefs. In fevere Weather, you muft cover all ten- pours are permitted to lodge uponthe Plants, der Flowers ; fuch of them as are not come up it will caufe their tender Shoots to rot. Your Anana’s, or Pine-Apples, which begin above-ground, may be cover’d with Peasbauim ; but thofe that are already up, fhould to fhew their Fruit, muft be carefully tended, be arch’d over with Hoops, and cover’d with obferving to refrefh them often with Water, Mats, Canvas, €¢. over which fhould be laid as alfo to preferve a due Warmthin the Stove, fome Wheat-ftraw or Peafe-haulm, if the Froft for if they are neglected at this Seafon, theit be very fevere ; but whenever the Weather Fruit will be poor. Such Plants as are hardy, and only require alters, you muft uncover them, forif they are kept too clofely cover'd, they will be apt to to be defended from Froft, fhould have Air given them conftantly, when the Weather is grow mouldy and decay. In mild Weather you mayplant fuch Roots mild, otherwifé they will grow mouldy from of Anemonies, Ranunculus’s, and Hyacinths the Dampnefs occafion’d by keeping them too as were kept out of the Ground till now, in clofe fhut up. order to have them flower after the others are Plants in Flower in the Green-boufe and Stove. paft ; but this fhould not be done when the The fmail and large Pearl, Cufbion, HedgeEarthis too wet. bog, Tongue, Succotrine, and {ome other Sorts Toward the End of this Month, if the of Aloes; Double N tium, Alaternoides Weather be mild, you fhould pick off all de- erice folio, Perfian Cyclamens ; {everal Sorts of cayd Leayes from your Auricula’s, taking as Ficoides ; fome Geraniums, C nthemums, muchof the Earth out of the Pots as you can Senecio Africanus folio retufo, African Gladiowithout difturbing their Roots, fupplying the lus, Haemanthus, with fome others. Place with fuch frefh Earth as was directed in the Article of Auricula’s, obferving to place JASMINUM, [of fi cous, a medicinal Odour, the Pots under Shelter to preferve their Buds, becaufe the Flower ofthis Plant fending out a which are nowforming, from being injur’d by fweet Odour is ufeful in Medicine; of the the Cold. Hebrew Word | which fignifies FrankinCover all Pots and Tubs of feedling Flowers cenfe.) The Jafmine, or Jeflamine-Tree, in hard Frofts, asalfo from great Snows: Look he Charaéters are ; ; out for Snails, and other Vermin, which harThe Leaves are in many Species pinnated ; bour in old Walls and Hedges, where they the Ct of one Leaf, but maybe eafily deftroy’d before they get abroad. vided ‘atthe Top into five Sexments ; the Ruffet, Kentifo Pippen, Holland Pippen, Aro- Flower W |