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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Subject terms
Gardening -- Great Britain.
Gardening -- Early works to 1800.
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Pages
Shalot.
Or Spanish Garlick: it hath heads in the ground like Gar∣lick * 1.1 though not so big, it runs up with blades like that of Chi∣ves, but a great deal bigger and longer, there is never any ap∣pearance of any Flower or seed, but continueth according as I described it, the sent of it is strong, being eaten it never of∣fendeth the breath. By this short description you may know it as well as if I had filled up a page with it.
This herb or root is propagated by the off-set or sucker, setting of them in March in beds of ordinary earth, prickt in each root at a hands breadth asunder just within the earth,
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this done, by the next Michaelmas following each root will encrease to be ten, then they ought to be taken up and kept in a chamber all the winter till the next March, and then set again in manner as was said.