The Scots gard'ner in two parts, the first of contriving and planting gardens, orchards, avenues, groves, with new and profitable wayes of levelling, and how to measure and divide land : the second of the propagation & improvement of forrest, and fruit-trees, kitchen hearbes, roots and fruits, with some physick hearbs, shrubs and flowers : appendix shewing how to use the fruits of the garden : whereunto is annexed The gard'ners kalendar / published for the climate of Scotland by John Reid ...

APRILE.

PLant Holly Hedges and Hawthorn too if not too foreward. Ply and sheer Hedges. Nail and prun Wall-trees, &c. Sow and plant firrs, and other greens. Slip and set sage, Rosemary, thym, Rue, Savory, and all fibrous Rooted herbes and Flowers. uncover and dress strawberries. Plant Artichocks, slip them and delve their plottes. Set Cabbage, Beans, Peas, Kidnees, sow Asparagus, Parsly, Beets, and Beet-card. Set Garleeks, Shal∣lot, Potatoes, Skirrets, Sorral. sow Onions, Leeks, Lettice, Cresses, Radish, Orach, Scorzonera, Carvy, Fennel, &c. And on the hotbed Cucumbers, Coleflowers, Purslain, sweet Marjorum, Basill, Summer Savory, Tobaco, &c.

Set Strawberries, Violets, July-flowers, &c. Also sow the seeds of july flowers. &c. Sow all your Annuall flowers and Rare plants some requiring the hotbed. Destroy Moles, Mice Worms, Snails. Lay, Beat, and Roll gravel and grass. Fall to your mowing and weeding.

Open the Doors off your bee-hives now they hatch.

Garden Dishes and Drinks in season.

Onions, Leeks, Colworts, Beets, Parsly, and other herbes: Spinage, Sorral. Scorzonera, green Asparagus, Lettice and other Sallads. Pickled Artichocks, Beet-rave, Barberries, Cucumbers.

Housed Aples and Pears, Conserved Cherries, Plumes, Peaches, Apricocks, Goosberries, Currans. Also the wines of Aples, Pears, Cherries, Liquorish, Hony, &c.