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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.
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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.
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- 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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are at a span in length, sharp pointed at the upper end; the lowermost part growing close to the earth, spreading eve∣ry way, and of a greenish gray colour; in the middest groweth many spindles, something like Cowslips, with Flowers on them like those of English-sage. This Flow∣er never yeeldeth seed; it is propagated of the slip, as fol∣loweth.
In March or September get the slip of this Herb, and set it in a bed of good mould, and it will prosper, or otherwise it will not. Now observe, after these slips are rooted, they will continue many years in that place without any more trouble; and the leaves and Flowers are for sove∣reign Medicines, although I cannot find the Physicians have treated of it either by name or description; yet the vertues are these; it cureth sore brests, applied Poultis∣wayes, and made up into salve; it cureth all manner of green wounds, and drunk inwardly helpeth women in travel, and many other vertues it hath, which I cannot dispense with time to repeat.
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