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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French Honey-suckles.
French Honey-suckles has not long been inhabited in Eng∣land, therefore I will give a description. This Herb hath leaves a foot long coming forth even from the root, in some places two inches in breadth, and in other places a hand breadth, scolloping out with five or six scollops between the bottom and the top, being of a fresh green colour, and smooth; it hath branches springing up to four foot high, with many of those said leaves on them, and many yellowish Flowers, which leave a brown, rough, flat seed behind them,
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the nethermost branches green all the year.
This Herb is propagated of seed or slip, but chiefly of the seed; the time for sowing of the seed is in April; the place is in a border, where it shall remain the season being temperate, and the earth good; it cometh up suddenly, but it beareth no Flower till the second year.
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