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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The leaves are thick, gross and woolly, and of a light * 1.1 brownish colour, very broad spreading upon the ground as it were, and in the middle riseth a stalk of two foot high, with many branches spreading, whereon are many Flowers like those of Sage, and each Flower leaveth its seed behind it like that of Radish, but something smaller.
This herb is sown of the seed, and it requireth a good ground and to grow in a bed by itself: there is two seasons for the sowing of it, one in the Spring and the other in the fall; that which is sowed in the fall a hard winter will kill it, therefore it is best to sow it in the Spring: the vulgar uses of this herb is for frying with eggs and other things, for it strengtheneth the back and encreaseth venery.