Pharmaco-botanologia: or, An alphabetical and classical dissertation on all the British indigenous and garden plants of the New London dispensatory : In which their genera, species, characteristick and distinctive notes are methodically described; the botanical terms of art explained; their virtues, uses, and shop-preparations declared ... / By Patrick Blair.

  • Blair, Patrick, -1728.
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1723[-28]
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Credit: Pharmaco-botanologia: or, An alphabetical and classical dissertation on all the British indigenous and garden plants of the New London dispensatory : In which their genera, species, characteristick and distinctive notes are methodically described; the botanical terms of art explained; their virtues, uses, and shop-preparations declared ... / By Patrick Blair. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    next to it, of the fame Dimentions, next Year, and do with it in the fame Manner * make a third Enclofure the third Year. On the fourth Year you may dig up the Broom from the firft Enclofure, which will be then very thick, about four or five Foot high, and will make up ■ feveral Loads, which, in feme Places, may afford a good Price for Fire, and for Thatching of Houfes, fome chufing to pay fo much a Rood for it, dig and carry it off themfelves, others by the Load •, the fifth Year dig up the Broom from the fecond Enclofure 5 and the third Enclolure may be digg’d upon the fixth Year. The Year after the Broom is digged up from every Enclofure, they fow it with Oats, and continue to fow and reap it for three fuccellive Years * after which, they let the three Enclofures lie Lee, each in his Turn fuccellively, and then the Broom arifes, and affords as good a Price, after three Years ' growing, as at firft 5 and if Pains is taken to make the Enclofure fo good, as neither Sheep nor Hares can get in, the laft of which ftrive J earneftly after fuch Shelters, this Method may turn to a very good * Account $ and if young Firr’s, Birch, Afhes, Alders, Sycamores, Sallows, , if the Ground is Moiif, are planted for a Fence within the Walls, the - Ufe and Advantage of them will (fill be the greater. There are fo many mountainous, heathy, and barren Places iriEnglandy \ befide what are in.its Northern Parts, Scotland, Wales, and Cornwal, as s is obferved, where, perhaps fuch Methods of Improvement are want¬ ing, arid hitherto not pradifed, that I thought it would be ufeful to 1 the Publick to communicate thefe efpecially, fince they have not been * taken Notice of by any of thofe curious Gardiners, and Nurfery Men, , who make it their Bufinefs to improve Planting and Gardening in 1 more fertile Places. One may, by this Means, come to encompafs a large Parcel of Ground at a very gradual Charge, z. e, by enclofing, fowing and im¬ proving four or fix Acres from Year to Year, joining the one Enclofure * to the other : This, after fome Years, may render a large Quantity of f Ground ol great Value, which was formerly good for nothing. * •; • XXV. A run do. Armdo vulgaris Jive (p^y/uir^ Diofcoridis C. B. P. 17, Arundo vulgaris patufiris ]. B. 2. 18. 485. Raii Hift. 1275. Morif. Hift, 3. 218. Tournef. : 326. Common Reed. XXVI. Milium. - . I ' . Milium femine luteo vel albo C. B. P. 26. Mifptm J. B; 2. 18; 446, Raii Hift, 1251. Morif. Hift. 196. Tourrcef, ^14. Millet, l XXVII.