New additions to the art of husbandry comprizing a new way of enriching meadows, destroying of moles, making tulips of any colour : with an approved way for ordering of fish and fish-ponds ... with directions for breeding and ordering all sorts of singing-birds : with remedies for their several maladies not before publickly made known.

How to gather Herbs, and a true way to dry them.

THey that intend to dry Herbs to have them good, must observe their Times and Sea∣sons: Gather your Herbs where they naturally grow, as your Betony it delights in Woods; ga∣ther him when it begins to bud out for flowering; tie them up in small Bunches, and hang it cross the Lines in the Wind and Sun; the quicker you dry any Herbs, the far better it is; gather always in a dry day, and let it not hang where it can rain up∣on it, for that will make it look black, and also take away the scent; when you have dryed them, put them in Brown-Paper-Bags, and before Win∣ter, lay them two or three hours in the Sun, and that will very much refresh them; hang them in a warm dry place but not too hot, for then the heat will draw out the Spirits of them.

Here is but three things to be observed to have extraordinary good dryed Herbs; Gather them in

the Prime, pick them clean from withered rotten Leaves, and dry them quick in the Sun and Wind, to preserve them, keeping them neither too hot nor too cold, and air them in the Sun three or four times in a Winter.

Thus I have in short shewed the Planting, Ga∣thering, and Drying of Herbs.