Setterwort.
Or black Eleyvert: it is known of a stinking smell, it is much like the Bears foot, it hath winged leaves, and runneth up with stalks like Parsnips, and beareth the seed in like man∣ner,
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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the root lieth in a clumper as big as a bushell; if it have stood long, the root of this herb yeeldeth such a strong stinking smell, so that a man in the digging of it up will be even sick with it, so that of all herbs or roots of herbs there is none that yeeldeth so noisome a savour: of this root this plant doth en∣crease, and if any part of it be set in any kind of digged earth, it will grow without any further trouble, and spring every year after, but observe the time, and that may be at any time but when the branch flourisheth, and he that will not observe this, and bestow this small pains to have this vertuous herb in his Garden, if he have Cattell, he is a very unwise man, if he did but know what diseases it doth prevent in Cat∣tell.