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.

Sage.

I discovered Roman Sage to you, or the Sage-tree. This Herb is the common English Sage, and of that there is red and green; a man would think that it were a needless thing to write any thing of the propagating of it, seeing every one can say, set Sage in May and it will never decay, truly that is a long day, but if that were true, the last Winter would not have killed the most of the Sage about London.

But so set Sage in the beginning of May in good earth, cast into beds of half a foot high, and two foot and an half broad, setting three chase in each bed of slips, each slip half a foot asunder, watering of it well at the first planting, till it hath taken root, and then this Sage set in May, may not for six or seven yeares decay.