. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. 280 THE COTTAGE GARDENEH. [February 6. For plantes and for stockcs lay afore haml to cast: i but set or remouo them while twelve tido doe last. I Set one from another full twenty fote square : the better and greater they ycrcly will bare. In the course of the volume he chives '* a poyntc or two of huswifry ; " j and from thenee, as well as from other authorities, it is apparent tliat the kitclien-Rardcn was considered as specially under the e:iie of the housc- I wife. He says, under this head : — In Ularchc and in Aprill, from morning to night
. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. 280 THE COTTAGE GARDENEH. [February 6. For plantes and for stockcs lay afore haml to cast: i but set or remouo them while twelve tido doe last. I Set one from another full twenty fote square : the better and greater they ycrcly will bare. In the course of the volume he chives '* a poyntc or two of huswifry ; " j and from thenee, as well as from other authorities, it is apparent tliat the kitclien-Rardcn was considered as specially under the e:iie of the housc- I wife. He says, under this head : — In Ularchc and in Aprill, from morning to night, in sowing,' and settinf^ good huswiues delight. To have in their garden, or some other pint : to trim up their house, and to furnish their pot. Have millons at Rlihelmas, parsncps in lent, in June huttred beans, saueth lish to be spent. "With those and good pottage inough hauing than thou winnest the heart of thy laboring man. Of the tenants of the garden and orchard, Tusser enumerates of " Seedes and herbes for the kychen ; herbes and rootes for sallets and sawse ; herbes and rootes to boyle or to butter ; strewing herbes of all sortcs ; herbes, branches, and flowers for windowes and pots ; herbes to still in summer; necessaric herbes to grow in the garden for physik, not rehcrst before," above one hundred and fifty species. Of fruits, he men- tions many kinds of apples, apricoches, bar-berries ; boUese, black and white ; cherries, red and black ; chesnuts, comet-plums, (Cornelian cherry ?), damiscna, white and black ; filberts, red and white ; goosc- bfrries; grapes, white and red; grcnc or grass plums, hurtil-hcrrics (Vaecinium vitis-ida-a), medlers or merles, raulbcrrics, pcache>s, white, red, and ycUow-fleshcd ; pcrcs of many kinds; peer plums, black and yellow; quinces, raspes, rcisnns, (currants?), hazel-nuts, strawberries, red and white; services; wardens, white and red; walnuts, and wheat plums. And here we must close this notice of one who may be
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