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.

Rose-campions.

Be these, the white, the red, the purple, they differ not in form but in the colour, let one description serve for all: Rose-campions have white hoary leaves and soft, sharp at each end; the stalks are of the same colour, weak and small as a Hop-vine, not well able to support themselves: from one root springeth many of them which spread mightily: in June and July this plant hath its Flower richest in the branch, these Flowers are made of five leaves, the seed lieth in bags which are round and of the bigness of a mans fore-finger, and when this seed is full ripe it will rattle in the husks; the seed is as small as Gunpowder and of a dark brown colour;

on this plant will be ripe seed and a rich Flower at once: this plant riseth to three foot high, the second year the whole plant dieth naturally.

This plant is propagated only of its seed, and in short I will * 1.1 show you the way, viz. prepare a bed or one end of a bed in the quarter which is appointed for Flowers, so done sow your seed, then cover it thinly with a little ridled earth, let this be done in the beginning of April or the latter end of Au∣gust: now observe, that those that are sown in August, if the winter following be hard they must be covered with a lit∣tle straw, and the Spring following when your plants are grown up, make a frame of rods round your bed to support the plants, for they are altogether weak of themselves, so oft as the seed falleth it groweth naturally.

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