Januaries Observations.

Plough for Pease, fallow such Land as you intend shall rest
the Year following; Water your barren Meadows, Pasture,
and drain Arable ground, especially in you intend to sow Pease,
Oats or Barly the second time following. Also stub up all
rough Grounds; Trim up your Garden Moulds: Set all kind of
fruit-Trees, for it is best to set such Trees as will endure the
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Spring: Set Vines, and trim the old ones; nail up your Wall-
fruit, and towards the end graft Pears, Cherries and Plums.
The Weather calm, rear Calves, remove Bees, keep good Diet.

Februaries Observations.

Set Beans, Pease, and other Pulse in stiff ground, being the
soonest, prepare your Garden, prune and trim your Fruit—
Trees from Moths, Cankers, and superfluous Branches, plash
Hedges, lay your Quickset close, plant Roses, Gooseberry Trees,
and any other Shrub-trees, and graft your tender Stocks; forbear
all Phlegmatick Meats.

March’s Observations.

Look well to your Ewes, cut up underwood for Fewel,
transplant all sorts of Summer Flowers, comfort them with
good Earth, especially the Crown Imperial, Narcissus, Tuleps,
and Hyacinth; In your barren fruit-trees bore holes, and drive
hard Wedges of Oak, and cover roots of trees close with fat
Earth that are uncovered; Graft fruit trees, and sow Oats,
Rye and Barley, sup Artichoaks, now advise with your Physitian,A3 sitian, 2A3v
for in this Month Physick and Bleeding is good to prevent
further dangers, for now Blood increaseth, and gross Humours
abound; let your Dyet be cold and temperate.

April’s Observations.

Some your Hemp and Flax; sowe and set all sorts of Herbs,
flip Lavender, Rosemary, Sage, Cyprus, Box, and such like
shrubs, open your Hives, and give your Bees their liberty, and
let them labour for their living; cut your Oak-Timber, the
Bark is now best for the Tanners use; scower your Ditches,
gather your Manure together in heaps, gather stones, repair
Highways, set Oziers and Willows, and cast up all decayed
sences: Physick is very seasonable still, as bleeding, and purging
to prevent causes of sickness, and for remedy in sickness.

May’s Observations.

This Month commands Gentlewomen to set their stills to
work, as yet sow sweet Marjoram, painted Beans, Beassel,
Time, Carnations, and Herbs that are tender, plant Stock-
Gilliflowers in Beds in the full of the Moon, shade your Carnations
and Gilliflowers in the heat of the day, fold your
sheep, carry forth manure, and bring home fewel; weed Winter
Corn, furnish your Diary, let your Mares go to Horse, fat
your dry Kine, and away with them; set your Bees at liberty,
look for swarms in this month: In this month it is good to let
blood and purge for such as have infirmities in the Head and
Eyes, and for Aged People.

June’s Observations.

Sow Lettice, Radishes, and such like Herbs at the full of
the Moon, then they will not run to seed this month, and the
next gather your Herbs to keep dry for the whole year; cut
neither Hedges nor Trees these three months, gather Herbs
with your fingers, a knife will cause them to dye; distil all
sorts of Plants and Herbs whatsoever, cut your rank meadows,
fetch home sewel, and carry forth manure, maus and lime to
mend your land: Be sure to be chaste this month, whatever
you are the rest of the year.

July’s Observations.

Attend your Hay-harvest, shear field sheep, gather your
flowers and seeds at the full of the moon, dry your flowers in
the shade, for the Sun too much exhaleth their vertue; sun
them a little before you lay them up, let the herbs you intend
to preserve run to seed, cut off the stalk of your flowers, and
cover the roots with new fat Earth: Sell your Lambs you intended
for the Shambles; beware of violent hearts and sudden
colds, which are the chiefest distempers of this month; take
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Augusts Observations.

Follow diligently your Corn-Harvest, cut down your Wheat
and Rye, mowe Barley and Oats, put off your fat Sheep and
Cattle, gather your Plums, Apples and Pears, make your
Summer Perry and Syder; set your slips and Scyons of all
[Gap in transcription—3–5 lettersflawed-reproduction]ns of Gilliflowers, and other Flowers; transplant them that
[Gap in transcription—3–5 lettersflawed-reproduction]re set in the Spring, gather your seeds in the full of the
Moon, if dry weather, geld your Lambs, carry manure from
your Dove-coats, put your swine to the early mast; take no
Physick, neither let blood in the Dog days but upon great ocasion,
if the Air be hot, otherwise, in necessity you may
[Gap in transcription—3–5 lettersflawed-reproduction]ely use it; use not to sleep in the Afternoon, for it causeth
Headach and Agues, refrain all excess in eating or drinking,
[Gap in transcription—3–5 lettersflawed-reproduction]ink that which is cooling.

Septembers Observations.

Cut your Beans, Pease, and all manner of pulse: On the
Land you intend to sowe. Wheat and Rye, bestow the best
manure; gather your Winter-fruit, sowe Winter herbs, transplant
Physical herbs; towards the end of the month, Earth
up your Winter herbs and plants, remove and set all slips of
Flowers, set Roses and Barbaries in the new of the Moon, sell
your Wool, stocks of Bees, and other Commodities you intend
to put off; Thatch your Hive or Bees you intend to
keep, and look that no Drones, Mice, or other Vermin be
about them; Thrash your Seed, Wheat and Rye. Use Physick
moderately, shun the eating of sweet and rotten Fruit,
avoid surfeitings.

Octobers Observations.

Finish your Wheat-seed, plash and lay your Hedges and
Quick-sets, scour your Ditches and Ponds, transplant and remove
all manner of Fruit-trees, lay bare the roots of your
thriving trees, in Planting, set the same side of you Trees
South and West which was so before, otherwise the North
wind will kill them, make Winter Perry and Syder, spare
your Pastures, and seed upon Corn-fields; draw Furrows to
drain, and keep dry your new sown Corn; make Malt, rear
all new fall’n Calves, all Foals that were foaled in the Spring,
wean from the Mares. Sell your Sheep that you do not intend
to Winter, and separate Lambs from the Ewes, that you intend
to keep. Recreate your spirits by harmless sports, and
take Physick by good advice, in need require it.

Novembers Observations.

Cut down your Timber for Ploughs, Carts, Naves, Axletrees,
Harrows, and other offices about Husbandry, or Housewifry;
make the last return of Grass, seed Cattle, take your
swine from the mast, and seed them for the slaughter; rear
all Calves that fall now, break all Hemp and Flax that you intend
to spend in the Winter season; remove Fruit-trees, and
sowe Wheat and Rye in hot soils, sowe early Beans and Pease,
set [Gap in transcription—5-8 lettersflawed-reproduction]stocks to grast on in the old of the Moon, sowe
Parsnips and Carrots, uncover the roots of the Apple-trees, and
so[Gap in transcription—1 wordflawed-reproduction] them remain till March. Use Spices and Wine moderately,
and if any Distemper afflict the Body, you may make
use of Physick still, and Bleeding.

Decembers Observations.

Pat your Sheep to the Pease-ricks, kill your small Porks and
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Beans upon. Cover your dainty Fruit-trees, drain your Corn-
fields, and water your meadows; cover your best flowers with
to ten [Gap in transcription—3–5 lettersflawed-reproduction]se litter. Now all sorts of Fowl are in season; keep
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