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Of Raine. Signes from clouds. Signes from the Moone. Signes from the Sun. Signes from Lightning. Signes from Fowle. Signes from Beasts. Signes from things without Motion. Signes of much Raine. Signes of Snow or Hayle. Signes of Winde. Signes of Tempests. Signes of faire weather. Signes of Winter. Signes of the Spring. Signes of a hot summer. Signes of a long winter. Signes of a forward or backward yeere. Signes of a good or bad yeere. Signes from Christmas day. Signes from the sunne rising. Signes from the twelue dayes in Christmas. _Signes from S. Paules day._ _Signes from Maudlin and S. Switthens day, if Corne shall be cheap or deere._ Signes from Thunder. Signes of sickenesse or health. The preseruation of health.
The choyce of Ground. The bettering of Grounds. The trenching of Grounds. Of breaking the Garden-mould. Ordering of Garden-beds. Of the fruitfull soyle. The necessariest ornament in a Garden.
Of all sorts of Pot-hearbs. Of Endiue and Succory. Of Beets. Of Land-Cresses. Of Parcely. Of Sauory. Of Time. Of French Mallowes, and Cheruil. Of Dill. Of Issop. Of Mints. Of Violets. Of Basill. Of Sweet Marioram and Marigolds. Of Strawburyes. Of Borrage and Buglosse. Of Rosemary. Of Pennyroyall. Of Leekes. Of Onyons. Of gathering Onyon-seeds, or the Onyon.
Of Arage. Of Lumbardy Louage. Of Fennell. Of Anyse. Of Comyn. Of Colyander. Of Rue. Of Organy. Of white Poppye. Of Germander. Of Cardus Benedictus. Of Angelica. Of Valerian. Of Elecampana. Of Pepper-wort. Of Phylipendula.
Of Lettuce. Of Spinage. Of Sparagus. Of Colworts. Of Sage. Of Purslaine. Of Artichocks. Of Garlicke. Of Raddish. Of Nauewe. Of Parsenips and Carrets. Of Pompions or Mellons. Of Cowcumbers. Of the Beanes of Ægipt. Of Skerrets. A most necessary obseruation.
Of Roses. Of the Damaske Rose. Of the redde Rose. Of the white Rose. Of the Cynamon Rose. To make the Cynamon Rose grow double. Of the Prouence Rose. To make Roses smell well. Generall notes touching Roses. Of Lauender. Of the white Lilly. To make Lillies of any colour. To make Lillies flourish all the yere. Of the wood Lilly. Of the Flowre de Lice. Of Pyonye. Of Petiluis. Of veluet Flowers. Of Gilly-Flowers. Of grafting of Gilly-Flowers. Of the smels of Gilly-Flowers. Of the wall Gilly-Flower. Of the Hellytropian. Of the Crowne Emperiall. Of the Dulippo. Of the Hyacinth. Of the Narcissus. Of the Daffadill, Columbine, and Chesbole. An excellent Caution. A new manner of planting Flowers and Fruits.
How to preserue all manner of Seeds, Hearbs, Flowers, and Fruits, from all manner of noysome and pestilent things, which deuoure and hurt them.
The Contents.
Of Thunder and Lightning. Of Caterpillers. Of Toads and Frogs. Of the field Mice. Of Flies. Of the greene Flie. Of Gnats. Of Pissemires. Of Moales. Of Snayles. Of Moathes. Of Canckers. Of Garden wormes. An excellent experiment. The Conclusion of the Kitchin-Garden.
The Table of the second part of the second Booke. Contayning the Ordering of all sorts of VVoods, and the breeding of Cattell.
Wood better then Gold. The excellent vses of Wood. The plantation of Wood. The fencing of young Woods. When Cattel may graze in springs. The vse of the Clay-ground for Woods. A speciall note.
The deuision of Woods. The value of vnderwood. Of the sale of vnderwoods. How to cut vnderwoods. The fencing of sales. The Woodwards duty.
What High-woods are. The beginning of highwoods. The plantation of your highwoods. Of planting the Elme. Of planting the Ash. Obiection. Answere.
Of Trees which take wet inwardly. Of Barke-bound. Of Hornets and Dores. Of the Canker. Of Pissemires. Of Iuye, Woodbine, and Mysselto. Of Thunder and Lightning. Of the sale of tall Woods. How to chuse Timbers. Of Mill Timber. Of Timber to beare burthen. Timber for Poales, Wainescot, &c. Timber for Piles or water workes. The vse of the Elme. The vse of the Ashe. The vse of the Walnut tree. The vse of the Peare-tree. The vse of the Maple, Beech, or Poplar. Of Char-coale. How to valew Tymber. How to measure Timber by guesse. Best seasons for the sale. The time for Chapmen. When to cut downe Tymber.
How to set all sorts of Quick-sets. Planting of greater Trees. Of the setting of Willowes, &c. The vse of Willowes, Sallowes, and Oziers. The ordering of Willowes. The ordering of the Ozier.
VVhat plashing is. How to plash. The time of yeere. The tooles to plash with. The profit of plashing. The lopping of Timber. What lopping is. The season for lopping. How you shall loppe Timber.
Diuersitie and vse of Pastures. Of barraine Pastures. Signes of barrainnesse. Bettering of Soyles. Sowing of good seeds. For abundance of grasse. The imperfection of meanure. To helpe a slow Spring. To helpe naughty grasse. To helpe Sunne-burning. To helpe ling or braken. To helpe marrishes. To helpe mossinesse. The generall vse of barraine grounds. What Cattell to be bred. Of fertile grounds. Deuision of rich grounds. Vse of rich grounds. Ordering of Pastures. Feeding of Cattell. How to know a fat beast. Of Meddowes, and their ordering. Preseruation of Meddowes. VVhen to lay Meddowes. VVhen to mowe Meddowes. Inclination of weather. The manner to mow Meddowes. How to make Hay. To make fine Hay. To make course Hay. Vse of Hay for Cattell of all sorts.
The reason of this Chapter. All diseases to be cured with twelue medicines. Of inward sicknesses. The first medicine. The second medicine. Of outward diseases. The third medicine. The fourth medicine. The fift medicine. The sixt medicine. The seauenth medicine. The eyght medicine. The ninth medicine. The tenth medicine. The eleauenth medicine. The twelfth medicine. Diseases in the feet. Diseases in the priuie parts, or for stifling.
The end of the Table for Husbandry.
Of Angling.
CHAP. I.
Of Angling: the Vertue, Vse, and Antiquitie.
The Contents.
The Vse of Angling. The Antiquitie of Angling.
Of the Angle-rodde. Of the toppe of the Angle-rodde. The Angle-rodde of one piece. The Angle-rodde of many pieces. Of Lines. Of colouring of Lines. Of the Corke. Of Angle Hookes. Of other Implements for Anglers.
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