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.

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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.
Author
Blake, Stephen, Gardener.
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London :: Printed for Thomas Pierrepoint, ...,
1664.
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Gardening -- Great Britain.
Gardening -- Early works to 1800.
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Rocket-flower.

It's needless to give you any description of them because they are so well known and so little worth, yet shall I not wholly exempt this plant, by reason it is one that helps to make up the inventory of kiltevated Flowers, the leaves when they are young serve well insallets.

This plant is raised of the seed only, the season for sowing * 1.1 of it is in mid-April, in a bed as I told you of Rose campion seed, in the same manner and with the same care, by the middle of June it will come to flower, and a little after the

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seed is ripe (which is as small as any seed whatsoever and of a whiteish red colour and glistering) the plant fadeth and springeth no more.

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