The English physician enlarged / [Nicholas Culpeper].

  • Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654
Date:
1806
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Credit: The English physician enlarged / [Nicholas Culpeper]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    full cabbaged heads (m. 1.) to cut for use as occasionally wanted. Celery—of advanced growth in trenches, earth-up every week to blanc h of proper length. Plant out late crops of celery in moderate trenches for winter and spring. Cardoons—of full growth, tie up the leaves and land up the plants. Lettuces—raised last month, should now be thinned, and plant some largest (b. m.) for late autumn crops, and for winter; and some on warm borders (m. 1.) for winter and early spring, &c. Sow lettuce of cos, Cilicia, brown Dutch, hardy green, and imperial, &c. (b. and ra. 1.) some to plant in warm borders, and in frames and hand-glasses, &c. others remain where sowed: all tor spring and early summer crops. Marjoram (sweet) and marigold Jloxeers—finish gathering, to dr}- for winter. Melons—continue to defend now from rain, and cold nights, with frames, glasses, and mats, &c. both those with ripening and advancing {run. Green melons for mangoes—may be gathered in latest fruit, not likely to ripen. C/iemdl and corn sallad—finish sowing for winter and spring. Cucumbers—continue to water if hot dry weather (b. m.Y and now gather full supplies of young fruit tor pickling before (m.) after which they will decline in production and the fruit become spotted. Gather large cucumbers for mangoes. Defend some holes of best young cucumbers with a frame and glasses (b. m.) to continue them longer in production, of handsome clean fruit. Or plant or sow cucumbers in a hot-bed (b.) to pro- duce late in autumn, &c. Coriander—where in request for soups, See. sow in a warm border or frame for winter. Coleworts—plant out full crops for winter and spring, of the July and earliest August-sowed plants in rows, a foot distance, by six or eight inches in the rows : may sow a small last crop (b.) for late planting in October and November, to remain for spring. Carrots—young plants of August sowing for spring, weed and thin three inches asunder. — The main crops of spring-sowed carrots arc now in good perfection, but not to take up for keeping in sand for winter, till (1.) Oct. or (b.) Nov.