The accomplisht ladys delight in preserving, physick and cookery.

Monthly Observations for October.

NOW is the time for setting Fruit-stores; which if the Fruit soon ripe, keep them in Sand till now: set them 3 Inches deep, the sharp end uppermost, and cover them with Fern or Straw to keep them warm in the Winter: but at the Spring take if off. You may sow Lettuce, &c. for tender Salleting. Trench Ground for both: plant or transplant all sorts of Fruit∣trees, having lost their leaves: Wall-trees above a Years Grafting: lay bare the Roots of old unthriving, or over-hasty blooming Trees, their Fruit dry, the Moon decreasing.

Remove your best and nicest July-flowers to shelter from much Rain or Wet, and where Snow may not be apt to fall on them, and brush it off gently, when fallen on those that are not capable of shelter. And this Month trim them all up with fresh Mould. Set your choice Tulips: you may now also sow their seeds. plant some Anemonies and Ranunculus's in prepared Earth, as directed in the Vade Mecum: but they must be covered, when they appear from the Frosts, that will otherwise kill them all: Therefore your best, set not till December.