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          id: A01448
      author: Gardiner, Richard, of Shrewsbury.
       title: Profitable insructions [sic] for the manuring, sowing, and planting of kitchin gardens Very profitable for the common wealth and greatly for the helpe and comfort of poore people. Gathered by Richard Gardiner of Shrewsberie.
        date: 1603
       words: 11755
      flesch: 57
     summary: whereas yet in this Countie of Salop , Gardening stuffe : is to small purpose , but I hope in God as time shall serue , my good beginning will be an occasion of good proceedings therein , and no doubt ( b●loued ) if any man will hartily desire to doe good in these actions , then vaine , fruitlesse and superfluous things may bee taken out of good Gardens and sundry good commodities , to pleasure the poore planted therein : then no doubt the Almightie God will the better blesse your encrease , and blesse your walking in your Garden in that minde : and then no doubt but your good conscience will delight you as well as the great blessings that God will blesse the Garden withall● Then shall you no doubt visibly beholde in your Garden , the blessed fauour and mercy of ou● most mercifull God to your euerlasting comfort , not onely in the great increase there to beholde , but also other wayes to your great comfort , which I omit at this p●esent . I doe assuredly prooue by experience there is no manner of sowing so perfectly good as this manner is , for all kinde of seedes , but onely Pumpions , Cucumbers , Beanes & Radish seedes , they must be otherwise set further a sunder as reason and experience doe agree therein , and in manner héereafter more at large is expressed : and when your séedes be sowed in rigols or rowes in manner aforesaid , then they are to be couered thus : ●ake the Rake and with the head thereof drawe it very light ouer the Rigols along the bed , vntill the bed be plaine and the Rigols filled , with the backe side of the head of the Rake , and if you then doe beate them plaine with the head of the shouel , the beds wil be the more comely , and breed lesse weedes by much .
    keywords: bed; bee; carrets; desire; doe; faire; garden; god; good; ground; haue; lettice; manner; rootes; seedes; set; sowe; time
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        item: #2 of 6
          id: A05195
      author: Harward, Simon, fl. 1572-1614. Most profitable newe treatise from approued experience of the art of propagating plants.
       title: A nevv orchard and garden, or, The best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good for a rich orchard particularly in the nor[th] and generally for the whole kingdome of England, as in nature, reason, situation and all probabilitie, may and doth appeare : with the country housewifes garden for hearbes of common vse, their vertues, seasons, profits, ornaments, varietie of knots, models for trees, and plots for the best ordering of grounds and walkes : as also the husbandry of bees, with their seuerall vses and annoyances, being the experience of 48 yeares labour ... / by William Lawson ; whereunto is newly added the art of propagating plants, with the tree ordering manner of fruits in their gathering, carring home & preseruation.
        date: 1631
       words: 38025
      flesch: 82
     summary: 11 These require whose plots : Artichokes , Cabbages , Turneps , Parsneps , Onyons , Car●e●s , and ( if you will ) Saffron and Scerrits . 12 Gather all your seeds , dead , ripe● and dry . 13 Lay no dung to the roots of your hearbs , as vsually they doe : for dung not melted is too hot , euen for trees . ●●hting●le .
    keywords: age; away; barke; bees; boughes; chap; cut; doe; earth; end; euery; euill; flowers; forme; foure; fruit; garden; good; graft; ground; growth; haue; leaue; man; neere; orchard; plant; remedy; ripe; roots; sap; set; sets; stocke; summer; time; trees; vnder; vpon; vse; want; water; winter; wood; yeeres; ● e; ● l; ● s; ● ●
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        item: #3 of 6
          id: A28337
      author: Blake, Stephen, Gardener.
       title: The compleat gardeners practice, directing the exact way of gardening in three parts : the garden of pleasure, physical garden, kitchin garden : how they are to be ordered for their best situation and improvement, with variety of artificial knots for the by Stephen Blake, gardener.
        date: 1664
       words: 64356
      flesch: 61
     summary: By some called Rickaluses , by others French Cowslips , and purple Cowslips ; it hath a leaf like your None so pretty , very thick and jagged , and keeps green all the year , they never rise above a handfull high , only the stalk , the Flower on that stalk is much like the double Cowslip , and the Flower is not much unlike in number of leaves and in shape , but in colour they differ ; the colours are these , the pink colour , the scarlet , the morey colour , and the purple , these naturally flower all at one time , and that is in March and April : these are Flowers of great estimation , and a great many of curiosities are used about them , in the propagating of them from seed and slip . Then in August prepare a bed of earth in a quarter which you reserve for Flowers , so done mingle with your seed some earth , or otherwise it will not untangle , so that you will sow it too thick or too thin ; so done get some other earth and cover your seeds half an inch thick ; these things observed , and your seed new and good , it will come up in three weeks space like Gruncel ; let it alwaies grow on this bed , and next summer following it flowereth , then if you rail in this bed with little sticks , it will keep the wind from breaking the Flowers , keeping the plants in uniform order : when the seed is ripe upon the stalk , then cut the stalks off within a hands breadth of the ground , the plant will spring again , so you shall preserve seed and plant , thus you may do for three years , the fourth root and branch dieth .
    keywords: april; august; bed; branches; colour; descrip; earth; end; flower; foot; garden; good; green; ground; half; hath; herb; leaves; like; manner; march; nature; place; plant; planting; root; seed; set; slip; small; sown; spring; stalk; time; white; winter; year
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        item: #4 of 6
          id: A28676
      author: Bonnefons, Nicolas de.
       title: The French gardiner instructing how to cultivate all sorts of fruit-trees and herbs for the garden : together with directions to dry and conserve them in their natural / first written by R.D.C.D.W.B.D.N. ; and now transplanted into English by Phiocepos.
        date: 1658
       words: 46995
      flesch: 81
     summary: C●●ting . Situation . 265 ●●elving . 266 Season of gathering fruit . 267 Medl●rs . B●●kets .
    keywords: bed; beds; branches; cover; cut; dung; earth; fingers; foot; frosts; fruit; garden; good; graffe; green; ground; leaves; little; manner; mould; new; pear; place; plant; preserve; red; ripe; roots; sap; season; second; seed; set; shoot; sorts; sowe; sowing; spring; stock; time; trees; trench; use; water; white; winter; wood; year; ● ●
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        item: #5 of 6
          id: A54994
      author: Bellingham, Charles.
       title: The Garden of Eden, or, An accurate description of all flowers and fruits now growing in England with particular rules how to advance their nature and growth, as well in seeds and herbs, as the secret ordering of trees and plants / by that learned and great observer, Sir Hugh Plat.
        date: 1654
       words: 21207
      flesch: 83
     summary: Pear tree when to plant 101 Pescods early and late 80 , 90 Pineapple when to set 102 Pinks of Carnations , and in carnation time 72 Piony of the seeds 91 Pippen upon what stocks 137 Pyramides of hearbs to grow speedily 76 Plants , when to set 102 Plants rooted , how to remove without harm 88 Plums growing long upon the trees 105 Plum-stocks white , of what bignesse to graft on 110 Plum agreeth not with a Cherry stock 113 Plum-stones when to set 101 Pompions to grow great 38 Pompions to multiplie 63 Poplar to grow 100 Pot-hearbs , what dung they require 35 Pots for Carnations , of a stately fashion 49 , 75 Proining of trees for beauty 108 Proyning of trees for bearing 147 Purslane seed to gather 37 Q. Quinces when to plant 101 Quince grafted upon Medlar 121 Quinces to grow delicate Tree rooted higher See after in 106. Wreathed bodies of trees .
    keywords: bark; branches; bud; cions; cut; dung; earth; flowers; fruit; garden; graft; ground; hill; leaves; plant; roots; roses; sap; seeds; set; sow; stock; time; trees; water
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        item: #6 of 6
          id: A58064
      author: Evelyn, John, 1655-1699.
       title: Of gardens four books first written in Latine verse by Renatus Rapinus ; and now made English by J.E.
        date: 1672
       words: 30200
      flesch: 80
     summary: LOng rows of Trees and Woods my pen invite , With shady Walks a Gardens chief delight : For nothing without them it pleasant made ; They beauty to the ruder Countrey adde . Trees therefore to the winds you must expose , Whose branches best their pow'rsul rage oppose Thus woods defend that part of Normandy , Which spreads it self upon the Brittish Sea. Where trees do all along the Ocean side Great Villages and Meadows too divide .
    keywords: air; appear; apples; arms; beauty; boughs; branches; care; cold; colours; culture; diff'rent; earth; ev'ry; fields; flow'rs; fountains; france; fruits; gardens; green; ground; groves; grow; hills; kind; leaves; love; nature; nymph; place; plants; rivers; self; set; shore; springs; streams; sun; thee; things; time; trees; use; vain; vales; water; waves; way; winds; woods
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