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last the longer. The vse is much and common. The Monkish Prouerbe is
_tritum_:

_Cur moritur homo, cum saluia crescit in horto?_

_Skerots_, roots are set when they be parted, as _Pyonie_, and
Flower-deluce at _Michael-tide_: the roote is but small and very sweet.
I know none other speciall vse but the Table.

Sweet _Sicily_, long lasting, pleasantly tasting, either the seed sowne,
or the root parted, and remoued, makes increase, it is of like vse with
Parsly.

_Strawberries_ long lasting, set roots at _Michael-tide_ or the Spring,
they be red, white and greene, and ripe, when they be great and soft,
some by _Midsummer_ with vs. The vse is: they will coole my Housewife
well, if they be put in Wine or Creame with Sugar.

_Time_, both seeds, slips and rootes are good. If it seed not, it will
last three or foure yeeres or more, it smelleth comfortably. It hath
much vse: namely, in all cold meats, it is good for Bees.

_Turnep_ is sowne. In the second yeere they beare plenty of seed: they
require the same time of sowing that Carrets doe: they are sicke of the
same disease that Cabbages be. The roots increaseth much, it is most
wholesome, if it be sowne in a good and well tempered earth: Soueraigne
for eyes and Bees.

I reckon these hearbs onely, because I teach my Countrey Housewife, not
skilfull Artists, and it should be an endlesse labour, and would make
the matter tedious to reckon vp _Landtheefe_, _Stocke-Iuly-flowers_,
_Charuall_, _Valerian_, _Go-to bed at noone_, _Piony_, _Licoras_,
_Tansie_, _Garden mints_, _Germander_, _Centaurie_, and a thousand such
physicke Hearbs. Let her first grow cunning in this, and then she may
enlarge her Garden as her skill and ability increaseth. And to helpe her
the more, I haue set her downe these obseruations.

CHAP. 9.

_Generall Rules in Gardening._

In the South parts Gardening may be more timely, and more safely done,
then with vs in _Yorkeshire_, because our ayre is not so fauourable, nor
our ground so good.

2 Secondly most seeds shakt, by turning the good earth, are renued,
their mother the earth keeping them in her bowels, till the Sunne their
Father can reach them with his heat.

3 In setting hearbs, leaue no top more then an handfull aboue the
ground, nor more then a foot vnder the earth.

4 Twine the roots of those slips you set, if they will abide it.
Gilly-flowers are too tender.

5 Set moist, and sowe dry.

6 Set slips without shankes