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The epitome of the art of husbandry : comprizing all necessary directions for the improvement of it ... : to which is annexed by way of appendix, a new method of planting fruit-trees, and improving of an orchard ... / by J[oseph] B[lagrave]
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you must endeavour to get the best Sets you can, jyand from the best and largest forts of Liquorice.The best Sets are your Crown-fets, or Heads got Afrom the very top of the Root, n little Ihived down; f cbe careful of t! is, of very found Land ; for how arsoon soever you come to water, your Liquorice Awill check and run not one Inch further : And having ^procured your Sets, your Ground being cast into y<Beds of four foot broad, all along your Plantation, befrom one end to another, with a long Line, you thmay lay down a Set at every foot along the Line, wwhsoh Line may have Knots and Threads at every vvfoot, if you will be so exact, and then a man may wcome with a Tool made a little sluttish, or roundish, soof the breadth or bigness of a good Pichforks tail soabout half a yard long, with a Crutch at the over arend, and sharp at ths nether, and that thrust into ti-the ground, it being made of Wood, or Itch : Bui G iif flat, au Iron will do best, and open the hole well, uand put in the Set, and close a little Mould to it, tcand so you may over-run an Acre very quickly in cithe setting of it, and if it should prove a very dry tftime, you must water your Sets two or three days siat the first, until that you fee that they have recover- ked their withered wannenels; and then the first year soyou may plant your Garden with Onions, Radishes, itor any Sallet-herb, or any thing that Roots not d:downward; and I am confident it would be better g,too, because it will prevent some weeding; and a:for the second, it muftbeHoed and kept from weeds sitoo, anil a little the third; but one thing be very dcurious of, iu the taking up, and sudden setting of bthy Sets, as soon as took up, set again : but if youfetch from far, then as soon as taken up, put a little

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