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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    FLOWER GARDEN', PLEASURE GROUND, AND SHRUBBERY. Clean the general compartments—cutting down and clear away all decayed flower stalks ; hoe and rake, or dig the boidcis, &c. clean the gravel, grass, and all parts from litter of fallen leaves, <$ec. the gravel from weeds, and finish mowing the grass, (b.) close and even ; and to prune, clean and dig shrub- beries. Planting'—maybe performed in all sorts oi bulbous and tube- rous flower roots, fibrous-rooted perennials and biennials, and most sorts of shrubs and trees. Beds and borders—designed for planting bulbs and other flowers, prepare by proper digging. Compartments for shrubbery planting—should be digged and laid out, in the order intended, for present planting. The various sorts of plants, shrubs and trees— for planting, may be obtained at all the nurseries, &c. Bulbous roots—generally complete the principal autumnal planting ^b. m.) in beds, borders, &c. ot tulips, hyacinths, jonquils, polyanthus-narcissus, and all other hardy bulbous kinds. Place also bulbs in water glasses to flower in a room, and change the water when very foul or fetid. Or may also plant bulbs in pots, and boxes of light earth or sand, to blow in a room, or where required; and for forcing in a hot-house, oec. Almond tree and dwarf kinds—plant in shrubberies; being very ornamental in their early flowering. Anemones and ranunculuses—finish the autumn planting (b. m.) Auriculas and carnations in pots—finish placing now under a warm south wall; or in a frame, to have occa- sional shelter of glasses in severe weather, or gieat rains, snow, &c. Biennial flowers—may be planted (b. m.) or not till spring. Box edgings—may be planted ; and finish any clipping in old edgings (b.) before frost. Carnations—finish planting (b. m.) in borders and pots, and remove those in pots to a warm situation. Climbing and trailing plants—oi the shrubby kind, may now be planted and trained against walls, buildings, and arbours, &c. such as Virginia creeper, ivy, virgins bower, honey- suckles, jasmine, passion-flower, &rc. the former ( Virginia creeper) will also succeed in towns and cities in any situation, and climb to the top of the highest buildings , also ivy in a more open airy exposure.