the eare much (and
you neede not want their company, if you haue ripe Cherries or Berries,
and would as gladly as the rest do you pleasure:) But I had rather want
their company than my fruit.

What shall I say? A thousand of pleasant delightes are attendant in an
Orchard: and sooner shall I be weary, then I can recken the least part
of that pleasure, which one that hath and loues an Orchard, may find
therein.

What is there of all these few that I haue reckoned, which doth not
please the eye, the eare, the smell, and taste? And by these sences as
Organes, Pipes, and windowes, these delights are carried to refresh the
gentle, generous, and noble mind.

{SN: Your owne labour.}
To conclude, what ioy may you haue, that you liuing to such an age,
shall see the blessings of God on your labours while you liue, and leaue
behind you to heires or successors (for God will make heires) such a
worke, that many ages after your death, shall record your loue to their
Countrey? And the rather, when you consider (_Chap. 14._) to what length
of time your worke is like to last.

_FINIS._

THE
COVNTRY
HOVSE-VVIFES
GARDEN.

_Containing Rules for Hearbs and Seedes_ of common vse, with their times
and seasons, when to set and sow them.

TOGETHER,

With the Husbandry of Bees, published with secrets _very necessary for
euery House-wife_.

As also diuerse new Knots for Gardens.

The Contents see at large in the last Page.

Genes. 2. 29.

_I haue giuen vnto you euery Herbe, and euery tree, that shall be to you
for meate._

IC

_LONDON_,

Printed by _Nicholas Okes_ for IOHN HARISON, at the golden Vnicorne in
Pater-noster-row. 1631.

THE COVNTRY HOVSVVIFES GARDEN.

CHAP. 1.

_The Soyle._

{SN: Dry.}
{SN: Hops.}
The soyle of an Orchard and Garden, differ onely in these three points:
First, the Gardens soyle would be somewhat dryer, because hearbes being
more tender then trees, can neither abide moisture nor drought, in such
excessiue measure, as trees; and therefore hauing a dryer soyle, the
remedy is easie against drought, if need be: water soundly, which may be
done with small labour, the compasse of a Garden being nothing so great,
as of an Orchard, and this is the cause (if they know it) that Gardners
raise their squares: but if moysture trouble you, I see no remedy
without a generall danger, except in Hops, which delight much in a low
and sappy earth.

{SN: Plaine.}
Secondly