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<P><HI>Artificial Fireworks:</HI> BEING Directions to Order and Make <HI>Moulds, Rowlers, Rammers, Coffins, Compo&s;itions, Heading, Fa&s;tening</HI> and <HI>Firing</HI> off <HI>Serpents, Rockets, Fi&s;gigs,</HI> and other <HI>Curio&s;ities</HI> too tedious to mention</P>
<P>ALSO THE <HI>Art</HI> of <HI>Ringing:</HI> GIVING Exact Rules for Ringing all Sorts of <HI>Plain Changes</HI> and <HI>Cro&s;s Peals,</HI> with Directions for <HI>Pricking;</HI> al&s;o how to hang Bells, with ea&s;ie Directions for every Thing which nece&s;&s;arily belongs to that ART.</P>
<P>Likewi&s;e The ART of GARDENING: GIVING An Account of the Tools, or In&s;truments nece&s;|&s;ary therein; and al&s;o what is to be done every <HI>Month</HI> in the <HI>Year;</HI> as likewi&s;e how to Order <HI>Cattle, Orchards</HI> and <HI>Hop-Gardens,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P><HI>To which is added,</HI> An excellent Receipt to make a valuable Liquor agreeable to all Con&s;titutions.</P>
<P>By <HI>J. White,</HI> Gent.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON:</HI> Printed for G. CONYERS, at the <HI>Ring</HI> in <HI>Little-Britain.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>THE SCHOOL OF <HI>Artificial</HI> FIREWORKS.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>1. <HI>The Ordering and making, in a true Propor|tion, the Moulds for</HI> Fireworks.</HEAD>
<P>_BEfore you proceed to the making of Rockets for Fire-works, it is requi&s;it to under&s;tand how to order, and make your Moulds and other In&s;truments for the &s;ame; and fir&s;t for your Moulds, You mu&s;t provide a piece of good dry Box, Holly, Walnut|tree, Cr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">b Tree, or &s;ome &s;uch like tough Wood, without Shakes or Knots; and when you have thus done, it is fit to know of what length and breadth you de&s;ire to have your Mould, for fol|lowing this kind of proportion, all other &s;orts of
<PB N="2" REF="3">Moulds are made great and &s;mall, therefore you ought to have a Turner to turn and bore the &s;ame: As for Example: I would have the Hole of a Mould bored but an Inch diameter, or wide, then the length of the Mould mu&s;t be &s;ix times &s;o long as the Hole is wide (which is &s;ix Inches) and on each &s;ide of the Hole half an Inch thick: So that when the Mould is turned round, it is two Inches over in breadth When you have done this, you mu&s;t have a bottom made and it is to be fitted therein.</P>
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<HEAD>II. <HI>The order and making of Rowlers, Rammers, and other things for the Coffins.</HI></HEAD>
<P>HAving provided your Mould, then you are to fit your Rowler, which mu&s;t be two third parts of the breadth of the bore of the Mould, and the length thereof &s;ix Inches longer than the Mould, which is for rowling of your Paper, with a Hole to be bored in the bottom to receive a Wyre, which mu&s;t be fa&s;ten'd in another piece of Wood &s;ome-what &s;horter, to take out at your plea|&s;ure, the u&s;e thereof &s;hall be de&s;cribed, when I &s;hall &s;hew the order of making the Coffins.</P>
<P>When you have fitted your Rocket, then pro|ceed to the making of your Rammers, which mu&s;t always be two at the lea&s;t, for each &s;everal Mould as they increa&s;e in largene&s;s, &s;o you mu&s;t be fitted with &s;everal Rammers, by rea&s;on of the taper Needle: Having fitted your Rammers, pro|vide a piece of Box, which mu&s;t &s;erve to make your whole Coffins, to put the work which you intend, on the Head of your Rockets.</P>
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<HEAD>III. <HI>How to order and make the Coffins of Paper.</HI></HEAD>
<P>HAving explain'd the manner and form of the Moulds, with the other things belonging to the &s;ame; I will now &s;hew the u&s;e of them in their &s;everal orders.</P>
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<P>Provide you &s;ome good large &s;trong Paper for your work: And to know what length your Paper mu&s;t be, let it be always the length of your Mould, &s;o &s;hall you have one Breadth left above the Mould the u&s;e whereof &s;hall be &s;hewed hereafter. Now having provided your Paper in length ready, take your rowler and one length of Paper, and be|gin to rowl; when you have rowled one Sheet, you mu&s;t have a Board with a Handle, to roul it with, which mu&s;t be done in this manner: You mu&s;t hold the Rowler in your left Hand, and with your right Hand hold the Board by the Handle. and then lay down your Rowler upon &s;ome &s;mooth Che&s;t, or Table, which when you have done, rowl another length of Paper, and &s;o proceed in rowling between every Sheet, untill you have rowled on &s;o much, as will fill the Mould very &s;treight. When you have thus done, draw forth the Rowler about an Inch, and then take the other &s;hort Rowler, and put it in, and there you &s;hall have a place left for the choaking of the Rocket, of which is next following.</P>
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<HEAD>IV. <HI>The order and manner how you &s;hall choak a Rocket.</HI></HEAD>
<P>WHEN you are to choak a Rocket, you mu&s;t have an Iron Hook, or a Staple driven in|to &s;ome Po&s;t, to which you mu&s;t fa&s;ten your Cord, which mu&s;t be bigger or le&s;s, according to the bigne&s;s of your Rocket, by rea&s;on that a &s;mall Cord will not choak a great Rocket for want of Strength, and a great Cord will not &s;erve for a &s;mall one, in regard that it will make too great a choaking, &s;o that you mu&s;t have a bigger and a le&s;s; and when you have &s;o done, you mu&s;t tye one End of the Cord to the Hook or Staple, and at the other End, about a Yard off, tye a &s;trong Stick, in fa&s;hion of a Swing, (it mu&s;t be &s;trong, becau&s;e it bea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">eth the Weight of the Body,) which
<PB N="4" REF="4">when you have provided, put the Stick between your Leggs, and wind the Cord about the Rocket|cace in the place appointed, which mu&s;t be be|tween the long Rowler and the &s;hort; when that is done, girt it by degrees, ever turning the rowler, to the End it may come together more clo&s;e and neat; and when you have &s;ufficiently choaked it, draw forth your &s;hort Rowler, and where the choaking is, tye it about with &s;trong Pack-thread, and then draw forth the Rowler, your Coffin is ready to be filled when occa&s;ion &s;erveth.</P>
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<HEAD>V. <HI>The manner of driving a Rocket, with the In&s;tru|ments belonging thereunto.</HI></HEAD>
<P>YOUR Coffin of Paper being &s;ini&s;hed, take it, and with your hollow Rammer, force the &s;ame down clo&s;e into the Mould, and when you have done, &s;trike two or three hard blows to &s;ettle the Paper into its right form: Which being done, then you mu&s;t fill the Coffin, in doing whereof you mu&s;t have a care, providing a Mea|&s;ure which may contain the twentieth part of your whole Rocket; &s;o by that means you &s;hall not fail, but every Rocket &s;hall have a true proportion alike: As for Example: I have a Coffin, which being filled, will hold an Ounce of mixture, or thereabout: Then I take the twentieth part, and when I find what quantity it is, I make a Mea|&s;ure of Horn or Latten which &s;hall contain &s;o much, and then I begin to fill my Coffin with one Mea&s;ure at a time, and putting in my Ram|mer, I &s;trike four or five &s;mart Blows with a good heavy Mallet, and then fill another Mea&s;ure, and &s;trike again, &s;o I continue till I come to the top of the Needle; then I take the &s;aid Ram|mer, and &s;o continue with it, till I come to the Top of the Mould: Now the Paper which is a|bove the Top of the Mould, mu&s;t be turned down
<PB N="5" REF="4">and beaten hard: Which being done, the Rocket is fini&s;hed from the Mould, which being forced out with as much ea&s;e as you can, for the le&s;s you force it, (being filled, and the Needle taken out,) the better it is, for knocking loo&s;ens the Powder, and &s;o cau&s;es the Rocket for to fail. You &s;hould have a Funnel to fill your &s;mall Rockets.</P>
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<HEAD>VI. <HI>Of the Compo&s;ition and Receipts for your Rockets.</HI></HEAD>
<P>HAving thus fini&s;hed your Rockets, it now re&s;ts to know the Receipts: For in the ma|king of them, the chiefe&s;t thing to be regarded is, the Compo&s;ition that they ought to be filled with|all: For as much as that which is proper to Rock|ets which are of le&s;s &s;ort, is very improper to tho&s;e which are of a greater Size: For the Fire being lighted in a great Concave, which is filled with a quick Compo&s;ition, burns with great vio|lence: And &s;o contrary, a weak Compo&s;ition be|ing placed into a &s;mall Concave, maketh no effect: Therefore we &s;hall here deliver Rules and Direc|tions, which may &s;erve for the true Compo&s;ition, or matter wherewith you may charge any Rocket; from Rockets which are charged but with one Ounce of Powder, unto greater, which require for their Charge ten Pound of Powder: And here follows the Ingredients for &s;everal Rockets.</P>
<P><LABEL>Fir&s;t, for Rockets of one Ounce.</LABEL> Unto each Pound of good Musket Powder bea|ten, put two Ounces of Small-Coal-Du&s;t, and with this charge the Rocket.</P>
<P><LABEL>For Rockets of two or three Ounces.</LABEL> Unto every four Ounces and a half of Powder-du&s;t, add an Ounce of Salt-petre, or to every four Ounces of Powder-du&s;t, add an Ounce of Coal-du&s;t.</P>
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<P><LABEL>For Rockets of four Ounces.</LABEL> Unto every Pound of Powder-du&s;t, add four Ounces of Salt-petre, and an Ounce of Coal-du&s;t, but to have it more flow, unto every ten Oun|ces of good Powder-du&s;t, add three Ounces of Salt Petre, and three Ounces of Coal-du&s;t.</P>
<P><LABEL>For Rockets of five or &s;ix Ounces</LABEL> Unto every Pound of Powder-du&s;t, add three Ounces and a half of Salt-petre, and two Ounces and a half of Coal-du&s;t, and an Ounce of Sul|phur, and an Ounce of File-du&s;t.</P>
<P><LABEL>For Rockets of &s;even or eight Ounces.</LABEL> Unto every Pound of Powder-du&s;t, add four Ounces of Salt-petre, and three Ounces of Sul|phur.</P>
<P><LABEL>For Rockets of ten or twelve Ounces.</LABEL> Unto the former Ingredients, add half an Ounce of Sulphur, and it will be &s;ufficient.</P>
<P><LABEL>For Rockets of fourteen and &s;ixteen Ounces.</LABEL> Unto every Pound of Powder-du&s;t, add four Ounces of Salt-petre, of Coal-du&s;t two Ounces and a quarter, of Sulphur and File-du&s;t, an Ounce and a quarter.</P>
<P><LABEL>For Rockets of one Pound.</LABEL> Unto every Pound of Powder-du&s;t, add three Ounces of Coal-du&s;t, and an Ounce of Sulphur.</P>
<P><LABEL>For Rockets of two Pound.</LABEL> Unto every Pound of Powder-du&s;t, add nine Ounces and a half of Salt-petre, of Coal-du&s;t two Ounces and a half, of File-du&s;t one Ounce and a half, and of Sulphur three quarters of an Ounce.</P>
<P><LABEL>For Rockets of three Pound.</LABEL> Unto every Pound of Salt-petre, add &s;ix Ounces of Coal-du&s;t, and of Sulpher four Ounces.</P>
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<P><LABEL>For Rockets of four, five, &s;ix or &s;even Pound.</LABEL> Unto every Pound of Salt-petre, add five Oun|ces and a half of Coal-du&s;t, and of Sulphur, two Ounces and a half.</P>
<P>Here note, that in all great Rockets there is no Powder put, becau&s;e of the greatne&s;s of the Fire, which is lighted at once, which cau&s;eth too gr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> a violence, and therefore ought to be filled with a more weak Compo&s;ition.</P>
<P>Now when you have provided your Powder, you mu&s;t fir&s;t meal it, and then &s;earce it, &s;o that it may be free from any Corn, though never &s;o &s;mall. Likewi&s;e take good dry Coul, well burnt, and beat it to Du&s;t; &s;earcing it very fine, which when you have done, mix them according as your occa&s;ion requireth, and follow your Directions.</P>
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<HEAD>VII. <HI>The manner of heading a Rocket, with the order of capping it.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IN the manner of heading a Rocket, you mu&s;t u&s;e the thick Rowler, upon which you mu&s;t rowl &s;ome Paper, or fine Pa&s;te board, and pa&s;te it &s;o that it may &s;tick very clo&s;e, and then choake it at the length of the thicker Part, &s;o that it may come clo&s;e to your Stick in the le&s;&s;er Part, which will be fit to be tyed to the top of the Rocket: So &s;hall you have a Coffin to put in your works, which mu&s;t be of divers &s;orts. This being done you mu&s;t provide taper Caps, which mu&s;t be join|ed to the top of the large Coffin: The u&s;e of them is to keep in your works, and to cau&s;e them to pierce the Air more &s;wiftly. The manner of making the&s;e Caps, is to take a pair of Compa&s;|&s;es, and de&s;cribe a circle in a Pa&s;te board, then cut it out with a pair of Sheers, and that will make two Caps being cut in he middle, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">urned one corner under the other, and &s;o pa&s;ted: And let them &s;o pa&s;ted, be put in a Napkin-pre&s;s
<PB N="8" REF="6">'till they be dry, and when they be dry, cut out a half circle in Paper, which &s;hall &s;it round about the &s;aid Cap, and &s;hall &s;erve to pa&s;te on the Cap to the Coffin; &s;o you have all things ready to the fini&s;hing of your Rocket.</P>
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<HEAD>8 <HI>The manner of fa&s;tning a Rocket.</HI></HEAD>
<P>HAving driven your Rocket, as I have &s;hewed, with the Paper turned down, you mu&s;t fir&s;t prime it, which mu&s;t be with cotten wick made for that purpo&s;e, which you mu&s;t put into the Vent, leaving a piece to hang lower than the mouth of the Rocket by three or four Inches; which being done, tye a piece of Paper over the mouth, that is may not fall out. Now having primed your Rocket you may proceed to the heading of it, and that is done after this manner.</P>
<P>Take your Rocket, and on the head you &s;hould turn down the Paper, you mu&s;t with a Bodkin pierce two or three holes, that when the Rocket hath &s;pent it &s;elf, the works which ar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> in the head may take fire; which holes prime with a little Pow|der-du&s;t, and then put on the head, with the choak|ing fitted to your Rocket, which mu&s;t come over the &s;ame in &s;uch manner, that the bottom of the greate&s;t part mu&s;t come even with the top of the Rocket; which tye fa&s;t to the Rocket with thread, and then put in your works; but before you put in your works, whether they be Stars, or any other works, you mu&s;t put in a little cotton-wool, be|ing rouled in Powder-du&s;t, to make your Stars to take fire, or likewi&s;e may blow out: Having thus done, put in your Stars, or other works, and if you make more than one tire, (as you may do of your Stars) then you mu&s;t put more Cotten rouled in Powder-du&s;t among them, or between every tire, that they may all take fire; then take your Cap, and fill the hollow place with Cotton, becau&s;e
<PB N="9" REF="6">it is light, and likewi&s;e will fire quickly; which be|ing fitted, pa&s;te it clo&s;e to the top of the coffin that it may &s;tand upright; then mu&s;t you fit your &s;tick, for the poi&s;ing of your Rocket, which ought to be eight times the length of the Rocket without the head: You mu&s;t get the &s;moothe&s;t and lighte&s;t you can, &s;uch as Ba<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ket-makers u&s;e, and then cut one &s;ide of it flat at the great end, then make two notches on the round &s;ide, that the one be differing from the other, &s;o much as is between the choaking of your Rocket, and the end of the Vent; for if you &s;hould tye it upon the Vent it would loo&s;en the Pow|der, cau&s;ing it to break in the Firing: be careful that you tye not the wrong end of the Rocket upper|mo&s;t, but tye that end downward that is choaked, and with a piece of thread that is &s;trong, tye it to the lower notch about the choaking. When you have <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">yed that, then tye the other higher, and let the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">tick come even with the top of the Roket. Then <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">oy&s;e your Rocket, by laying it on your finger two or three Inches from the month; and if you find the &s;tick be too heavy, cut it &s;horter, till you find your rocket to ballance your &s;tick, for if the &s;tick be too heavy, the rocket will be a &s;lug, and being too light, the rocket will fall before it be half up. The&s;e things being provided, you have your rocket ready to be fired, which mu&s;t be after this manner following.</P>
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<HEAD>9 <HI>The manner of firing Rockets, with the de&s;cription of a Staff for the &s;ame.</HI></HEAD>
<P>YOU mu&s;t provide a long &s;taff with a Pike at one end, to be thru&s;t hard into the ground, with a three-legged &s;taff, having a hollow hoop at the top, to let this long &s;taff &s;lide up and down, to the end that having Rockets who&s;e &s;ticks are longer than the &s;taff, yet by rai&s;ing it through the &s;aid
<PB N="10" REF="7">Iron hoop, you may make it four or five foot longer than it would be &s;tanding on the ground. Now this long &s;taffe mu&s;t have a &s;liding place cut with &s;everal points, which mu&s;t be near the top; and at the bottom there mu&s;t be a ring of Wyre, to let the &s;tick go through, which mu&s;t be made likewi&s;e to &s;lide up and down, &s;o thru&s;ting the &s;mall end through the &s;aid Ring, your Rocket will <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;t upon that part above, which mu&s;t be ju&s;t oppo&s;ite in a &s;treight Line; &s;o open the Mouth of your Rocket, and pull out the End of your Cotton-wick, and with a piece of Match fa&s;tned in a Lin&s;tock, give fire to the Wick, and by degrees you &s;hall &s;ee it fire your Rocket; which ordered well, will mount very &s;treight and high. Thus having &s;hewed the whole order of compo&s;ing a Rocket, with firing of the &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">me, I will in the next place &s;hew you the order for making of Stars, and other work<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">, which are nece&s;&s;ary for the heads of your Rockets.</P>
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<HEAD>X. <HI>Several Compo&s;itions for the ordering of Stars of &s;everal Colours.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IF you will have your Stars of a blue Colour with red, then take eight Ounces of Powder mealed, of Salt-petre four Ounces, and of Sulphu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">|vive twelve Ounces: Meal the&s;e very fine, and mix them together with two Ounces of Aqua|vitae, half an Ounce of the Oyl of Spike, and let it be dry before you u&s;e it.</P>
<P>If you will have a beautiful white Fire, take four Ounces of Powder, twelve Ounces of Salt|petre, &s;ix Ounces of Sulphur-vive, and half an Ounce of Camphire: Meal your Ingredients and mix them. Now to powder your Camphire, you mu&s;t u&s;e a bra&s;s Mortar and a Pe&s;tle, dipping it in Oyl of Almonds, &s;o &s;tirring it by degrees it will Powder, and then keep it clo&s;e from the Air till you u&s;e it, or the Camphire will lo&s;e its Spi|rit.</P>
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<P>If you will have a white Fire, and to la&s;t long, then take four Ounces of Powder, one Ounce of Salt-petre, eight Ounces of Sulphur vive, one Ounce of Camphire, and two Ounces of Oyl of Peter: meal tho&s;e which are to be mealed very fine, and mix them according to the former Directions.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="11" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>XI. <HI>The order and manner of making the be&s;t &s;ort of Stars.</HI></HEAD>
<P>HAving &s;hewed the Compo&s;ition for Stars, now I will &s;hew you how to make them, which is thus: You mu&s;t make little &s;quare pieces of brown Paper, which fill with your Compo&s;ition, and &s;o double it down, rowling it till you make it &s;omewhat round, about the bigne&s;s of a Nut or bigger, according to the &s;ize of the Rocket; you may put in a dozen on the head of a &s;mall Rocket, binding them round with a Thread, and then draw a Cotten-wick through them, being prepared for priming.</P>
<P>Al&s;o there is another way which is thus; take a &s;mall Rowler, about the bigne&s;s of an Arrow, and roul a length of Paper about it, and pa&s;te it round, letting it dry, and then you have a hollow trunk of this Paper, fill this with your Ingredi|ents, thru&s;ting it hard till it be at the Top, and then cut it into &s;hort pieces, about half an Inch long, and then in warm glew dip one of the Ends therein, and let them dry to the End that both Ends of your Stars fire not, and then put the o|ther End into Powder-du&s;t; you may put them on your Rocket, in one or two tires, putting in Powder-du&s;t between every tire, that they may all take Fire.</P>
<P>The priming is thus made; Take Oyl of Cam|phire &s;oaking Cotten-wick therein, and being moi&s;t rowl it in fine Powder-du&s;t, and then hang it up till it is thorow dry, and then keep it clo&s;e
<PB N="12" REF="8">from Air till you u&s;e it, or the &s;pirit of the Cam|phire will decay.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="12" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>XII. <HI>The order and making of other &s;everal Fire-works for the Rockets, as Serpents, or Fi&s;gigs, Reports, Golden and Silver Rain,</HI> &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>THE Serpents or Fi&s;gigs, are made about tho bigne&s;s of ones little Finger, by rowl|ing a Paper upon a &s;mall Stone, (as it was for your Stars) and choaking the Paper Coffin an Inch from the End, then fill it three Inches with Pow|der-du&s;t, and then choak it, and then put in a lit|tle Corn-powder, when your Serpents have played a while to and fro, it may break and give Re|port: You may fill it with the Star Mixture, and putting divers of them on the head of the large Rocket, they will fir&s;t appear like Stars, and when the Stars are &s;pent, take hold of the Powder-du&s;t, and they will run rigling to and fro like Serpents, and at la&s;t will give <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> many reports, very delight|ful to behold.</P>
<P>The reports are made in their proper ca&s;es as the Serpents are, but the Paper mu&s;t be &s;omewhat thicker, which will cau&s;e it to give the greater report: The&s;e are to be filled with grain Powder, or half Powder and Star mixture.</P>
<P>To make the Golden Rain, you mu&s;t get &s;tore of Goo&s;e Quills; and cut them off next the Fea|thers, and fill the&s;e Quills hard with the &s;ame Compo&s;ition that is in your Rocket, and mu&s;t be put on the head of the Rocket, with the open end downwards: If it were po&s;&s;ible to put a thou|&s;and of the&s;e Quills upon the head of a Rocket, it were a dainty &s;ight to &s;ee how plea&s;antly they &s;pread them&s;elves in the Air, and come down like &s;treams of Gold, much like the falling down of Snow, e&s;pecially if the Wind be any thing high.</P>
<PB N="13" REF="8">
<P>If you will make &s;ilver Rain, it is performed as the other; only you mu&s;t fill your Quills with the &s;ame Ingredients that you did your white Stars.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="13" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>XIII. <HI>How to make your Fi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e-works to run upon a line backward or forward.</HI></HEAD>
<P>TAKE &s;mall Rockets, and place the Tail of one to the Head of the other, tying a Ca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e to them to run on a Line &s;oped; the line may be a Hundred Yards long or longer if you plea&s;e, being well &s;tretched and &s;et on Stakes: And at la&s;t (if you plea&s;e) may be placed a pot of Fire|works, which being fir'd will make good &s;port; having Serpents and other things in it, which will variou&s;ly intermixe them&s;elves in the Air, and up|on the Ground and every one will extingui&s;h it &s;elf with the report.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="14" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>XIV. <HI>How to make a Wheel of Fire-works to run forward and backward upon the Ground.</HI></HEAD>
<P>YOU mu&s;t get a pair of light Wheels like &s;pinning Wheels, both of a bigne&s;s, which mu&s;t be fa&s;ten'd to a &s;mall light axle-tree, in &s;uch manner, that they may not move about the &s;ame, and on the middle of the axle-tree, fa&s;ten al&s;o a Fire-wheel, which mu&s;t not be &s;o big in compa&s;s as the two other Wheels, becau&s;e it mu&s;t not touch the Ground, &s;o that being fa&s;t in the mid|dle upon the &s;ame axle-tree, it cannot run unle&s;s it carry the other Wheels with it; the&s;e being &s;et on an even Ground, will run a great way without cea&s;ing: Now that you may make it re|turn back again when it has run its cour&s;e for|ward, you may make your middle Wheel in &s;uch manner, that it may have Rockets on both &s;ides, &s;o that when one &s;ide is &s;pent, it may give fire to the other &s;ide, the mouths of the Rockets be|ing
<PB N="14" REF="9">fa&s;tned the contrary way will make a return with a &s;wift motion.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="15" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>XV. <HI>Another way for a &s;ingle Wheel to be placed on a Po&s;t to turn both ways.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THIS may be performed with a &s;ingle Wheel, &s;o that the Rockets may be placed on each &s;ide, (as in the other middle Wheel, with a Hole from the one &s;ide to the other for a vent; then place your Rockets fir&s;t upon one &s;ide, but &s;o that the la&s;t Rocket be placed over the &s;aid Hole) and boring a &s;mall Hole in one &s;ide of the la&s;t Rocket, put in a Cotten-wick for prim|ing, letting it come through the Hole in the Wheel, to the mouth of another Rocket, which &s;hall be turned the contrary way on the other &s;ide: So that the Wheel having fini&s;hed its revo|lution on one way may take fire on the other &s;ide, making a retrograde motion: But if you place the Rockets all one way on both &s;ides, it will con|tinue twice &s;o long as another of the &s;ame big|ne&s;s.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="16" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>XVI. <HI>The order to make a fixed Wheel, &s;tanding upon a Po&s;t, giving divers reports.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THere mu&s;t be a Wheel turned two Foot wide, and out of the upper &s;ide mu&s;t be a groof turned half an Inch wide, half an Inch deep; to which groof you mu&s;t have a piece of Wood &s;o f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ted, that it may ju&s;t &s;lide in; which piece of Wood mu&s;t have &s;o many &s;mall Holes bored in it, as you will have reports about it, and be &s;ure you &s;et them not too ne<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">r together, le&s;t the Fire of one beat the other down; having thus provided your Wheel, you mu&s;t make a con|veyance or hollow Trunk of Paper, which will ju&s;t fill it, and fill the &s;ame with &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">me of your
<PB N="15" REF="9">&s;low mixtures of Stars, and then putting on the cap of Wood &s;o fitted with Holes, being made fa&s;t with Glew, pierce every hole into your hollow con|veyance, &s;o that putting a Quill into every one, they may take Fire, and to the Quill fa&s;ten a Report; &s;o &s;hall you have a peal of Chambers placed in a &s;mall Room, which being once Fired, will follow in Order, till the who&s;e Train be &s;pent.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="17" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>XVII. <HI>Another fixed Wheel upon a po&s;t, which will ca&s;t forth many Rockets into the Air.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THIS Wheel is not much unlike the former, which will give Fire to divers Rockets &s;tand|ing circular, differing little from the former, only you mu&s;t make a hole for every &s;tick to pa&s;s thorough, and therefore it mu&s;t be made &s;omewhat broader, which will work the like effect that the other doth, by conveying Fire from one Rocket to another, till they be all &s;pent</P>
<P>The mixture for this conveyance mu&s;t be very &s;low, therefore u&s;e the&s;e Ingredients: Take eight Ounces of Roch-Peter, four Ounces of Sulphur-vive, half an Ounce of Camphire, two Ounces of fine Powder-du&s;t, and meal the&s;e very fine, and mingle them together, adding half a quarter of an Ounce of Lin&s;eed Oyl, and as much of the Oyl of Peter, the&s;e Oyls mu&s;t be dropped in by degrees, and &s;o wrought up, till you find your mixture bound like Dough, and this is both &s;low and &s;ure.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="18" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>XVIII. <HI>Another dainty fixed Wheel, which will ca&s;t forth divers Fi&s;gigs, or Serpents, and as many Reports.</HI></HEAD>
<P>YOU mu&s;t have a Wheel turned with a groof on the top thereof to put in the conveyance of Paper, then fit on a piece of Wood (as it was before &s;hewed) with &s;mall Holes to put in Quills, which are for Firing your Reports, and mu&s;t be
<PB N="16" REF="10">Placed round about the upper Part of your Wheel, and on the &s;ide thereof divers holes mu&s;t be made of the bigne&s;s of your Fi&s;gigs, which mu&s;t be pier|ced through to the Paper conveyance, tho&s;e Fi&s;gigs that are placed round on the &s;ides, and the Reports on the top, one Train will Fire them all; and in firing you &s;hall &s;ee all the Fi&s;gigs flying round about, one after another as the Fire pa&s;&s;eth to them; and for every Fi&s;gig which pa&s;&s;eth out &s;hall be fired a Report; &s;o that there &s;hall be a continued Motion until the whole Train be con&s;umed.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="19" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>XIX. <HI>Of Night Combatants with Faulchions and Targets, Clubs, Maces,</HI> &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>THIS is performed by two Men &s;eeming to Fight, or to make way in a Throng of Peo|ple, the Clubs at the great Ends are made like a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ound Basket (or other Form) with wicker or &s;mall Sticks on a Staff, which mu&s;t be filled with Rockets in a &s;piral Form glued, and &s;o placed, that they Fire but one after another: The Faulchions are made of Wood in a bowing manner, having large backs to receive many Rockets, the Heads of one near the Neck of another, glewed and fa&s;tned well together, &s;o that one being &s;pent, the other may take Fire: The Targets are made of thin boards, which are challenged in &s;piral Eines to contain Pri|mers to Fire the Rockets one after another, which is all covered over with a thin covering of Wood or Pa&s;te-board, bored with Holes &s;piral al&s;o, which Rockets mu&s;t be glewed and made fa&s;t to the Place of the Channels: Now if two Men have in each Hand a Target and a Faulchion, or a Mace of Fire, and &s;eem to Fight, it will appear very plea|&s;ant to the Spectators; for by the Motion of Fight|ing, the Place will &s;eem to be full of Streams of Fire. And there may be adjoyned to each Target a Son or burning Comer, with Launces of each
<PB N="17" REF="10">Fire, which will make them more beautiful and re&s;plendent in that Action.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="20" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>XX. <HI>Another dainty one with Fi&s;gigs, called,</HI> Jack in a Box</HEAD>
<P>THE manner of making the fame is in this Order, cau&s;e a B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">x of Plate <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">o be made about &s;ix Inches deep, and of what compa&s;s you plea&s;e (with a Socket at the bottom to put in a Staffe) then putting in a quantity of Corn Powder, or Powder-Du&s;t in the bottom of the Box, you may fill it with Fi&s;gigs or Serpents, leaving a place in the middle for a Cane to go through the bottom, which Cane mu&s;t be filled with a &s;low Receit, in which you mu&s;t put a quantity of Camphire, but no Oyls, in regard of the narrow Pa&s;&s;age it hath to burn, without any other vent, then put your Cane down, leaving it an Inch above the Box, and take a thick piece of Pa&s;t-board cutting a Hole for the Cane <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">o pa&s;s through, and glew it clo&s;e to the Cane that the Fire pa&s;s not through before its Time: This Pa&s;te-board mu&s;t be of &s;ufficient breadth to cover the Box quite over, then put it on a Staffe and Light your Cane, which will appear only like a Candle, and after a little &s;pace of Time you &s;hall hear a &s;udden Noi&s;e, and &s;ee all tho&s;e Fi&s;gigs flying &s;ome &s;ome one way, and &s;ome another: This hath given good content to the Beholders you may if you plea&s;e make Clubs or Maces of the &s;ame.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="21" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>XXI. <HI>Of Pots of Fire for the Ground which will make the Air rebound with their Reports.</HI></HEAD>
<P>MANY Po<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">s being fired together, do give a fine Repre&s;entation and Recreation to the Spectators; for tho&s;e Pots being filled with Balls of Fire, or flying Serpents for the Air, will &s;o inter|mix one within another in flying here and there a little above the Ground, and giving &s;uch a Volly
<PB N="18" REF="11">of Reports, that the Air will rebound with the Noi&s;e, and the whole Place be filled with &s;undry Streams of plea&s;ant Fire; which Serpents will much trouble tho&s;e near the Place to defend them&s;elves in their upper Parts; and they will be no le&s;s bu&s;i|ed by the Balls of Fire which will &s;eem to annoy their Feet.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="22" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>XXII. <HI>The making of a Fire-Ball from the Ground, which will be in continual Motion.</HI></HEAD>
<P>YOU mu&s;t get a Ball turned of &s;ome light Wood, and then let it be &s;awn through the mid&s;t with a thin Bow &s;aw, then make on each &s;ide a hollow groof to lay in two Rockets (joyned together after the manner of the Runners) and then clo&s;e up your Ball with Glew; only in the Place where the two Rockets join &s;hall be a groof, which mu&s;t be pa&s;ted over with Paper, that the &s;econd Rocket taking Fire may have a Vent, otherwi&s;e the Ball will &s;erve but once, then Fire it and you &s;hall &s;ee the Operation with plea&s;ure</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="23" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>XXIII. <HI>The making of a Ball for Water, which &s;hall burn with great Violence.</HI></HEAD>
<P>SOW a round Ca&s;e of &s;trong Canvas, in &s;hape of the ca&s;e for a Foot-Ball, but &s;omewhat le&s;|&s;er, and very round; having thus made your ca&s;e, then proceed to the filling of it, which mu&s;t be done in this manner: You mu&s;t fir&s;t put in three or four good &s;poonfuls of your mixture following, and with a Stick made round at one End, force it clo&s;e together, and &s;o continue filling it, and be|tween every filling put in your Stick and force it together, round it continually in your Hand till you have fini&s;hed it; which having done, &s;ow it up clo&s;e, and then arm it with &s;mall Cord, which is called Marling; after you have thus done, you mu&s;t coat it with a quantity of Ro&s;&s;in, Pitch and
<PB N="19" REF="11">Tallow to di&s;&s;olve, and dip your Ball all over in the &s;ame, provided that you leave two Vents to fire it, which mu&s;t be pierced a third Part into your Ball, which mu&s;t be &s;topped with two &s;mall Sticks, till &s;uch time that you come to u&s;e them then pul|ling forth the Sticks, fill the two Vents with fine Powder Du&s;t, and firing it, ca&s;t it into the Water, and you &s;hall have your de&s;ire; but you mu&s;t al|ways be &s;ure that your Ball be throughly fired be|fore you ca&s;t it from you: The Receipt for this Ball followeth.</P>
<P>Take one pound of Powder, eight ounces of Roch-water, four ounces of Sulphur, two ounces of Camphir, one ounce of Oyl of Peter, one ounce of Lin&s;eed Oyl, half an ounce of Oyl of Spike, and two ounces of Colophonia.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="24" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>XXIV. <HI>Another dainty Water Ball, which will &s;hoot forth many Reports.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THIS Ball mu&s;t be made of Wood (as was &s;hewed before) in two Pieces, becau&s;e you may joyn it clo&s;e together at Plea&s;ure, having &s;mall Holes bored round about it to put in your Quills which ju&s;tifie the Reports, which Reports, or Breakers mu&s;t be made of Paper, choaked at both ends and primed through the mid&s;t; they mu&s;t be fa&s;tened round with Pitch, and &s;o covered round about, that no Water may pa&s;s in: You mu&s;t fill this Ball in two halfs, that you may force it very clo&s;e together, and when it's filled glew it fa&s;t, and arm it well with nealed Wyer, then put in your Breakers, with a quill which mu&s;t enter into the Ball, and likewi&s;e into the breaker.</P>
<P>The Receipt for this Ba<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">l are the&s;e; Take one pound of Roch-Peter, four ounces of powder du&s;t, three ounces of Sulphur vive, two ounces of Cam|phire, one ounce of Lin&s;eed Oyl, two ounces of Ro&s;in, and one ounce of Oyl benedict; you mu&s;t
<PB N="20" REF="12">powder tho&s;e Things which are to be powdred and mingle them all together, and by little and little &s;prinkle your Oyls, till you have wrought it like Pa&s;te, and then u&s;e it: The Quills mu&s;t be filled only with Powder-Du&s;t, becau&s;e it mu&s;t Fire &s;uddenly.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="25" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>XXV. <HI>How to make a Dragon, or the like, to run on the Line, &s;pitting of Fire.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THE body of the Dragon mu&s;t be made either with Pa&s;te board, or with fine Rods of wick|er, being hollow, with a place in the Belly to put in two Rockets and mu&s;t be &s;o ordered, that there may come a &s;mall Pipe from the Tail of the one, to the Head of the other: Then make a Place for the Eyes and Mouth, to put into each Hole fire, which mu&s;t be made up in rouled Paper, and thru&s;t in, then on the Top of the back, let there be fa&s;ten|ed two &s;mall Pullies for a Line <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> which being done, your Dragon is fini&s;hed for firing, which mu&s;t be thus&punc; Fir&s;t &s;et it at the Eyes and Mouth, (always ob&s;erving that this Receipt mu&s;t be &s;ome &s;low mixture, &s;uch as your Stars) then fire that Rocket which is placed with his Mouth towards the Tail of the Dragon, which will make it &s;eem to ca&s;t fire from thence till he come to the end of his Motion; and then on a &s;udden (as a Creature wounded with &s;ome accident) &s;hall return with fire coming forth of his Belly: This being well ordered, will give good Content to the Beholders of the &s;ame.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="26" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>XXVI. <HI>The manner and form to repre&s;ent St.</HI> George <HI>fighting with a Dragon in Fire, on the Line.</HI></HEAD>
<P>WHEN you have formed your Figures of Pa&s;te-board, or Wicket (as afore&s;aid) you mu&s;t make a hollow Trunk through the Body of each Figure, for a great Line to pa&s;s through, and
<PB N="21" REF="12">likewi&s;e for a &s;maller Line to draw them to and fro from each other which mu&s;t be fa&s;tned in this man|ner; At the Brea&s;t of the Dragon let one end of one Cord be tied, which mu&s;t pa&s;s through the Body of the George, and turning it about a Pully at the other end, fa&s;ten it to the back of the George, and at the Brea&s;t of the George let another Cord be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ed, which mu&s;t pa&s;s through the body of the Dragon (or a Trunk on the back) and &s;o returning about a Pulley at that end, mu&s;t be pulled &s;trait and fa&s;tned to the Tail of the Dragon, &s;o that as you turn that Wheel, the George and Dragon will run furiou&s;ly at each other; and when you plea&s;e, you may cau&s;e them to make a Retreat, and come on again: But by all means forget not to &s;cope your Line extraordinary well, and likewi&s;e have a care that your Work be not too heavy above Line, but <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">hat they may hang in an equal Ballance, otherwi&s;e they will turn their Heels upward, which will be a great di&s;grace to the Work and Workmen: And thus much to the Ingenious I &s;uppo&s;e will &s;uffice.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="27" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>XXVII. <HI>How to make a Whale, a Mermaid, or other to play and &s;wim upon the Water.</HI></HEAD>
<P>YOU may make Figures of what Shape your fancy be&s;t plea&s;eth; The Body mu&s;t be made of light wicker Rods, and in the mid&s;t of the Body let there be placed an Axle-Tree, having two Wheels coming into the Water, yet &s;o as they may not be &s;een: The&s;e Wheels mu&s;t be made hollow, to contain a quantity of Sand or Water: The u&s;e of it is to keep the Body of your Figure upright, and able to &s;ink it &s;o far into the Water as is need|ful, and likewi&s;e to make it &s;wim more &s;teady: Note that the&s;e Wheels mu&s;t be loo&s;e, and the Axle-Tree fa&s;t: In the mid&s;t of this Axle-Tree, place three or four great Rockets one by another, with their Mouths all one Way: Yet &s;o provided that
<PB N="22" REF="13">there may be &s;uch a di&s;tance between each Rocket, that there may come a Vent from the Tail of the fir&s;t to the Mouth of the &s;econd, and from the &s;econd to the third&punc; And to the end that it may continue the longer in Motion, you may place di|vers Lights about the Body, to make it the more beautiful; every of which Lights extingui&s;hing &s;hall give a Report, and &s;o conclude. There are divers other fine Works to be performed on the Waters, which a judicious Arti&s;t may invent.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="28" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>XXVIII. <HI>Of divers other rare Works, which are to be performed on the Water.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THOSE places which are &s;ituated upon Ri|vers or great Ponds, are proper to make the&s;e Recreative Fires on; therefore if you de&s;ire to make &s;ome of con&s;equence, they ought to be built upon Boats, or light Timber, which may be framed like Bea&s;ts, or Fi&s;hes &s;pitting of Fire; upon which may be built Ca&s;tles, Pageants, Turrets, or other Conceits as you plea&s;e. As if you would pre&s;ent a Ca&s;tle, out of which &s;hall i&s;&s;ue a Dragon, which &s;hall &s;wim through the Water, and that Dragon be encountred by a Hor&s;eman, which is thus performed. Cau&s;e a Ca&s;tle to be framed on light Timber, and let the bottom of the Door of the Ca&s;tle with a ground Plat be two Foot under the brim of the Water, (the Rea&s;ons follow) and at a Foot high within the Ca&s;tle let there be a certain Line tyed which may pa&s;s thro' the Body of the Dragon, and may be fa&s;tened near the Shoar, where mu&s;t be a float &s;unk &s;o far under Water, that the Line may not be perceived; then fa&s;ten on your Dragon (as was &s;hewed before for the Line) but &s;o that the Head of this may always be above the Line, whereas the other was under then at the appointed time, there mu&s;t be one ready within the Ca&s;tle, to Fire tho&s;e Parts of the Dra|gon
<PB N="23" REF="13">which is requi&s;ite; which being done (by the help of the Pulleys) &s;hall pa&s;s it through the Wa|ter, which &s;o &s;oon as it pre&s;ents it&s;elf, <HI>Neptune</HI> on a Sea Hor&s;e &s;hall come, and encounter the &s;aid Dragon, and at la&s;t &s;hall overcome it: Or you may order the work &s;o that which you plea&s;e &s;hall have the Victory; for that which keepeth Fire longe&s;t, is &s;uppo&s;ed to have the be&s;t, and that which is &s;oone&s;t &s;pent, to have the wor&s;t.</P>
<P>You may if you plea&s;e, build upon Boats, or Timber, Turrets, Pageants, or Ca&s;tles, as is, &s;aid, to receive or hold diver&s;ity of Fireworks that may be made within them, which may play out, and play divers Fires, as Reports, Stars Golden Rain, Fi&s;gigs, Granadoes, and Balls of Fire to burn in the Water, which will give great content to the Eyes of the Beholders; and in the conclu&s;ion, it may be &s;o ordered, that they Fire one another, for which End they were made.</P>
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<DIV2 N="29" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>XXIX. <HI>The manner to compo&s;e a Ship of Fire works, which being once fired, divers Motions will pre&s;ent them&s;elves.</HI></HEAD>
<P>YOU mu&s;t make a Mould or Body of a Ship to be made, that you may take off the upper Deck, to place &s;ome Works underneath, where you mu&s;t have a Fire-wheel placed with a Screw on the Axle-Tree; this Wheel mu&s;t be placed in the Stern, and mu&s;t turn a rouler, on which mu&s;t be two girts placed that mu&s;t pa&s;s on each &s;ide of the Main Ma&s;t, and ruin on to the Fore&s;hip; in this Wheel there mu&s;t be a hollow &s;poke and Axle-tree, as I have &s;hewed, which mu&s;t be &s;o ordered, that the Wheel being &s;pent, it may convey Fire to a tire of Guns, lying round about, which mu&s;t be fired with a clo&s;e Conveyance; and having pa&s;&s;ed that, it mu&s;t take hold of another Conveyance which &s;hall give fire to certain Rockets, which mu&s;t
<PB N="24" REF="14">be placed in the Body of &s;ome Figures repre&s;enting Mariners, and mu&s;t be &s;o fitted; that they may have a Cane joyned to their Body to guide them, that they may run on the Ropes from the Deck to the top of the Ma&s;ts. This and other the like may be performed with great facility.</P>
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<DIV2 N="30" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>XXX. <HI>Of Launces of Fire for Plea&s;ure and for Service.</HI></HEAD>
<P>STanding Launces are commonly made with hol|low Wood, to contain &s;undry Petards or Rock|ets; the&s;e Lances may be fa&s;tened to Po&s;ts, &s;o that they may not be overthrown in the flying out of the Rockets or Petards: But there are a le&s;&s;er &s;ort of Launces, who&s;e Ca&s;es are of three or four fold|ings of Paper of a foot long, and about the bigne&s;s of ones Finger: The compo&s;ition wherewith the&s;e Launces mu&s;t be filled is this; Unto every four ounces of Powder you mu&s;t add two Ounces of Salt-Peter, and unto that add one Ounce of Sul|phur; and then it will make a brick Fire red colour before it be half &s;pent, if the Launce be fired and held to it: Now if Twenty &s;uch Launces were placed about a great Rocket, and &s;hot to a Hou&s;e or Ship, it would produce a mi&s;chievous Effect.</P>
<P>Or, if unto the End of the Rocket there were fa&s;tened an Arrow (which mu&s;t not be too heavy) and in&s;tead of the Feathers, it &s;hould be of thin white Tin Plate, and if you give Fire to it, being thus prepared, you may &s;ee how &s;erviceable it will prove. To the Head of &s;uch Rockets may be pla|ced Petards, Balls of Fire, Granadoes, and the like, and &s;o may be applied to warlike Affairs.</P>
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<PB N="25" REF="14">
<HEAD>Short, but certain <HI>RULES</HI> for the Making all Sorts of Fire works for Recreation, as Rockets, Fifgigs, Runners on the Line, Serpents, Stars, Fire-Wheels, Clubs, Jack in a Box, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> To|gether with the Quantity of all the Ingredients thereunto belonging, and the manner of Com|pounding them.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>How to compo&s;e a Ca&s;tle of Fire-works with &s;mall Charge, that in the Fireing will yield as much Variety, and give as much content as any.</HEAD>
<P>IN all Things actual, a certain Method is re|qui&s;ite to be ob&s;erved. Therefore, &s;uch as in|tend to put in Practice the&s;e en&s;uing In&s;tructions, are fir&s;t to provide them&s;elves of &s;uch Rocket Moulds as are &s;uitable to the Work they undertake. The De&s;cription and Proportion of them, I conceive &s;omewhat needle&s;s, in regard any one may be fur|ni&s;hed in <HI>London</HI> with what Sizes they plea&s;e. This being premi&s;ed, I &s;hall begin with</P>
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<HEAD>Fi&s;gigs, by many called Serpents.</HEAD>
<P>THE be&s;t way of making them is thus: Ha|ving provided a &s;mall Mould with a Needle, make a Coffin of Paper fit for it, which choak half an Inch from the end; then put it in your Mould, and fill up three Inches with Powder-du&s;t only, finely beaten and &s;ifted, then choak it again, and afterwards fill it about an Inch with Corn-powder, then choak it clo&s;e, and your Fi&s;gig is prepared. To u&s;e the&s;e on the tops of great Rockets put in|to the Mouths of them, &s;ome of the Compo&s;ition for Stars, which will &s;hew very delectable to the
<PB N="26" REF="15">Spectators; for after they have continued a good &s;pace in the Form and Manner of Stars, they will then riggle to and fro, like &s;o many flying Ser|pents: Of the&s;e Fi&s;gigs mo&s;t &s;orts of Fire-works are compo&s;ed. When you can perfectly make the&s;e, you may then proced to the making</P>
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<HEAD>Runners on a Line.</HEAD>
<P>AND for them is likewi&s;e requi&s;ite a Mould, five Inches long without a Needle: Fir&s;t make your Coffin of Paper, choak it at the end as before, then put it in your Mould, and fill it four Inches with Powder-du&s;t: (N<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">te that in the filling it you mu&s;t put in but a little at a time and ramm it down clo&s;e, and &s;o of all others) Then choak it, and fill the re&s;t of it with Corn powder (to give a Report) leaving only &s;o much of the Coffin void as will &s;erve to choak it. This being done, tye it to a hol|low Cane three Inches long; &s;o as in tying of it you do not brui&s;e the Rocket. And &s;o have you a &s;ingle Runner for the Line fini&s;hed.</P>
<P>If you de&s;ire to have a double one to run for|wards, and back again, you mu&s;t then be provided with two Runners made after the manner of the former, only one to be an Inch longer than the other: And to fini&s;h the&s;e, u&s;e this Method. Fir&s;t tye the long Rocket to the Cane, and at the Mouth of it fa&s;ten the Breach of the &s;hort one, by rouling over them a little piece of Paper, with &s;ome Pow|der-du&s;t in it to give fire to the long one, not for|getting to make a &s;mall hole in the Breech of the &s;hort one with a Bodkin, that &s;o the long one may take fire: Having done &s;o, then turn back the &s;hort Rocket &s;o, that the Mouth of it may reach &s;ome|what further than the Breech of the long one; le&s;t in firing it you accidentally fire both, and by that means &s;poil your Runners: The be&s;t way of tyeing the double ones is to fa&s;ten the &s;hort one &s;o, as
<PB N="27" REF="15">the long one may be betwixt it and the Cane; for by that means it will run without &s;wagging; whereas, if they be both joyned to the Cane, as Mr. <HI>Bates,</HI> and &s;ome others direct, it is both un&s;afe, and uncertain; un&s;afe in this, in ca&s;e the fir&s;t ac|cidentally break the other with the force of it will be &s;truck off; and uncertain it is likewi&s;e, in regard after the fir&s;t Rocket is &s;pent, the Coffin of it coming back will &s;wag and retard the Pa&s;&s;age of the other, and by that means indanger burning of the Line. Let your Line be well rubbed with Soap; which will both &s;ecure it from fire and facilitate the Pa&s;&s;age of the Runner: Likewi&s;e for the&s;e and all other, let your Powder du&s;t be beaten, and &s;ift|ed very &s;mall, for the lea&s;t Corns in it may danger the breaking.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>How to compo&s;e a Wheel.</HEAD>
<P>FIRST provide a Wheel, either round or &s;quare, the better &s;ort are eight &s;quare, made fit to the length of the Rocket, five Inches each, the be&s;t proportion is about &s;ixteen Inches diameter. Now having provided a Wheel, take &s;o many Rockets, made after the &s;ame manner as tho&s;e are which run on the Line, which you mu&s;t fa&s;ten together, by joyning the Mouth of the one to the Breech of the other, in the &s;ame manner as tho&s;e for the Line; in the tying them on, have a care you do not brui&s;e them, and be &s;ure to leave &s;ome &s;pace betwixt the Mouth of the fir&s;t, and the Breech of the la&s;t, that &s;o by firing the fir&s;t, the la&s;t may not take, and by that means breed a confu&s;ion.</P>
<P>You may order the&s;e Wheels to burn either Ho|rizontal or Vertical: For the Horizontal provide a Po&s;t or Staff, with a pin on the top of it to put the Wheel on; if vertical, then provide a pin fa&s;tened to the Side.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<PB N="28" REF="16">
<HEAD>How to make a Club to ca&s;t forth divers Fi&s;g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">gs.</HEAD>
<P>TO do this, fir&s;t cau&s;e a piece of Wood to be turned four Inches Diameter, let it be bored with an Augur of an Inch and half bore from the top towards the bottom, leaving the bottom &s;ome|what above an Inch thick, and a place underneath to fa&s;ten a Staff in; the length of it may be about eighteen Inches: Then draw a Line &s;piral way about it from the bottom to the top in manner of a Screw, each Line an Inch and half a&s;under, in that Line bore &s;mall Holes an Inch a&s;under; within half an Inch of the bottom, and then pierce it through with a Piercer; let your Holes be of that bigne&s;s fit to contain a Fi&s;gig, and make them &s;omewhat &s;lopeways, that &s;o the Fi&s;gig may &s;tand fa&s;t, tho' &s;lack, otherwi&s;e they will not come ea&s;i|ly forth.</P>
<P>Load your Club or Trunck with the compo&s;ition following, and then put in your Fi&s;gig made as before, priming each of them, and likewi&s;e each Hole with powder-du&s;t, then fire your Club at the top, and they will fire one after another, and fly about in a confu&s;ed manner.</P>
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<HEAD>The Compo&s;ition for this Club is.</HEAD>
<P>Roch Peter eight Ounces, Sulphur vivum four ounces, Powder-du&s;t two ounces, Camphire one ounce, Lin&s;eed Oyl half an ounce; beat and mix the&s;e according to the order pre&s;cribed in the com|po&s;itions following.</P>
</DIV4>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>To make Rockets for the Air.</HEAD>
<P>PRovide fir&s;t a good Mould of what &s;ize you plea&s;e, with a Needle in it, and a Rowler with two Rammers, the one hollow for the Needle and the other &s;olid, to ram it after the Needle is co|vered. Having made a good &s;trong Coffin of Pa|per
<PB N="29" REF="16">fit for the Mould, and choaked as before, then fill it with the compo&s;ition for that &s;ize your Roc|ket is of, the &s;everal Proportions and Mixtures hereafter follow. To fill it, take a little Tin &s;cope, and put in about the twentieth part of the quan|tity it holds, and then ram it with your hollow Rammer, and &s;o continue till you have filled it to the top of the Needle, always beating it down with two or three good &s;trokes of a Maliet, then fill in more almo&s;t to the top of the Mould, ram|ming it as before, but with your &s;olid Rammer leaving only &s;o much unfilled as that you may dou|ble down &s;ome of the Paper and ram it clo&s;e, ma|king a little Hole with a Bodkin to give fire to &s;ome Corn-powder (to give a report) put within that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">aper as is left un&s;olded down, and then choak it, next prime it, as &s;hall be &s;hewn hereafter, and proceed to heading of it, which you may do &s;eve|ral ways, either with Stars, Serpents, Crackers, or golden Rain: the compo&s;ition for the making the&s;e hereafter follows. To place the&s;e on the Rocket, fir&s;t make a thin Coffin of Paper, the in&s;ide of it &s;omewhat wid<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">r than the out&s;ide of the Rocket, which you may fit by rouling it on the out-&s;ide of the Mould, and fitting it to the Rocket, then fa&s;ten it to the top of the Rocket, and &s;trew all the powder in it, having fir&s;t made a &s;mall Hole in the top of the Rocket to give fire to it: In this Coffin you may place &s;hort Serpents with the Mouths downward made as before, or with Stars only, Crackers or golden Rain; having done this, take a piece of thin Pa&s;tboard, and with a pair of Compa&s;&s;es make a round Circle in it, then divide it in two, and with the one half make a Cap taper|wi&s;e, fit to cover the Head, and with glew fa&s;ten it to it: Then provide a dry O&s;ier &s;tick, about eight times the length of the Rocket, &s;traight, and flatted at the end, to this fa&s;ten the Rocket, tied at both
<PB N="30" REF="17">ends ju&s;t in the choaking place, that &s;o you may not loo&s;en the compo&s;itoin within, then poi&s;e the &s;tick, by ballancing it on your finger three or four Inches from the Mouth of the Rocket.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>The Ingredients for Rockets for the Air of All Sizes.</HEAD>
<P>FOR Rockets which contain from one Ounce to four, to one pound of Powder-du&s;t, put two ounces of Charcole-du&s;t: For Rockets which hold from five ounces to ten, to one pound of Pow|der, put two ounces and a half of Charcoal-du&s;t; and for Rockets which hold from ten to &s;ixteen ounces, to one pound of Powder put three ounces of Charcoal-du&s;t; but be &s;ure that both your Pow|der-du&s;t in this and all other be well beaten, and finely &s;ifted, as likewi&s;e your Coal-du&s;t. If by try|ing your Compo&s;ition you find it too &s;trong, you may mend it by adding a &s;mall quantity of Coal|du&s;t to it; if too weak, then by adding a little Powder-du&s;t. My Advice is, to mix a pretty quan|tity together, that &s;o by the trial of one Rocket you may be a&s;certained of the re&s;t: for all Powder is not of one and the &s;ame &s;trength.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Priming for Rockets</HEAD>
<P>TAKE Cotten-wick (&s;uch as the Chandlers u&s;e) and &s;oak it in Oyl of Camphire, then take it out and roul it in Powder-du&s;t, then dry it, and keep it clo&s;e, otherwi&s;e the &s;trength of the Camphire will decay. The Compo&s;ition for Stars will likewi&s;e fire them.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Compo&s;ition for Stars, and fir&s;t for tho&s;e of a Blue and Red Colour.</HEAD>
<P>POWDER mealed fine four ounces, Salt-pe|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">er two ounces, Sulphur vivum &s;ix ounces, beat the&s;e very fine, and then mix them, adding thereto one ounce of Aqua-vitae, and a quarter of an
<PB N="31" REF="17">ounce of Oil of Spike. To make the&s;e up for u&s;e; take a Rouler about the bigne&s;s of an Arrow, and roul Paper on it, and pa&s;te it clo&s;e, then fill it with the Compo&s;ition before pre&s;cribed, and beat it hard, then cut it into &s;hort pieces half an Inch in length, dipping one end in Glew, and &s;trewing the other with Powder-du&s;t, it is then fini&s;hed, only let it dry before you u&s;e it.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>A Compo&s;ition of Stars of a very beautiful Colour, the ea&s;ie&s;t, be&s;t, and &s;ure&s;t way, never till now made publick by any.</HEAD>
<P>SAlt-peter one ounce, Sulphur vivum one ounce, Powder-du&s;t one ounce, Camphire a quarter of an ounce, beat the&s;e very fine and mix them, after|wards make pa&s;te of them with the Oil of Tur|pentine, and then make up little pieces about the bigne&s;s of a Pea, which roul in Powder-du&s;t, and let it dry. Of this &s;ort you may put two or three dozen at the Head of an ordinary Rocket, the charge and trouble of making is far le&s;s than any other way.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>To make golden Rain.</HEAD>
<P>PRovide your &s;elf with a good quantity of Goo&s;e Quills, cut them off at the end next the Fea|thers, then fill the Quills with the following Com|po&s;ition, and they will make a very glorious &s;hew. To one quarter of a pound of Powder du&s;t add half an ounce of Coal-du&s;t, and for u&s;e put the open end of the Quill downwards.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>To make a Jack-in-a box.</HEAD>
<P>PRovide a Tin-box &s;ix Inches deep, with a &s;ocket made under the bottom of it to place it on a Staff, let it be of what bigne&s;s you plea&s;e, in the bottom of it &s;trew &s;ome Corn-powder almo&s;t half an Inch thick, then fill it with Serpents, or Fi&s;gigs
<PB N="32" REF="18">placed with the Mouths downward, leaving a place in the mid&s;t for a Cane to pa&s;s through, which fill with a &s;low Compo&s;ition; (that for Stars, or the&s;e following are very good) then put in the Cane, and fa&s;ten a cover of Pa&s;tboard very clo&s;e over the Box, that &s;o it may not fire before its appointed time.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>A Compo&s;ition that burns with a Flame &s;low and &s;ure.</HEAD>
<P>ROch-peter four ounces, Sulphur vivum two ounces, Camphire a quarter of an ounce, Powder-du&s;t one ounce. Meal the&s;e very fine and mix them, adding thereto one quarter of an ounce of Lin&s;eed Oyl, and a quarter of an ounce of Oyl of Peter dropped in by degrees, and &s;o wrought to a Pa&s;te. To meal your Camphire, dip the Pe&s;tle in Oyl of Almonds.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Another &s;ort of Mixture that burns &s;parkling.</HEAD>
<P>POwder-du&s;t four ounces, Coal-du&s;t two oun|ces, this rammed clo&s;e in a Cane, renders the &s;ight very delightful to the Spectators.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>A Compo&s;ition for a White Fire, that la&s;teth long.</HEAD>
<P>SAlt-peter eight ounces, Powder-du&s;t two oun|ces, Sulphur vivum four ounces, Oyl of Peter one ounce, Camphire half an ounce; meal tho&s;e which are to be mealed, and incorporate them to|gether.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>How to compo&s;e a Ca&s;tle of Fire-works with &s;mall Charge, that in the firing &s;hall yield as much Variety, and give as much Content as any.</HEAD>
<P>FIRST provide an indifferent large Frame of Wood, four &s;quare, with little round Tow|ers of Pa&s;tboard at the Corners, the be&s;t &s;ize is eighteen Inches &s;quare, and twelve Inches high, let the bottom be made firm to &s;tand on any place.
<PB N="33" REF="18">and the Sides with Gates, (as your fancy &s;hall di|rect) then fa&s;ten on the in&s;ide three Ledges of Wood on each &s;ide about, each Ledge with a groof made on the top of it, then make &s;o many Holes in the Frame of Wood, &s;uitable to the Ledges, as you intend to have the Ca&s;tle give reports: You may ea&s;ily make eight to each Ledge, which con|tains ninety &s;ix reports, you may add more as you &s;ee cau&s;e; or at the top fa&s;ten many Crackers, which at the end will fire like a Volley of Shot: The manner of making the&s;e Reports &s;hall be &s;hewed hereafter; and to place them, fir&s;t prime your Groof with a &s;low Compo&s;ition, and from the uppermo&s;t Row to the &s;econd put a Wick, primed as for Rockets, and &s;o from the &s;econd Row to the third, leaving &s;ome hanging forth at the Door to fire it, then put in your Reports the Mouths in|ward, fix them to your Groofs and cover it clo&s;e, afterwards fit a Board four &s;quare to cover the top of the Ca&s;tle, of each &s;ide half an Inch broader than the Ca&s;tle: On the four Edges of it you may fa&s;ten Pa&s;tboard cut Stone-work ways in manner of a Battlement, and at each corner, place a &s;mall Jack-in-a-box with a long Cane in each of them filled with &s;low Compo&s;ition, made as before; which Canes let be of the large&s;t, as may burn all the time the Ca&s;tle is firing: In the mid&s;t of the Board on the top, place a Pin to put a Wheel on, made of thin Deal-board, five, &s;ix, or eight In|ches &s;quare, proportionable to the length of the Rockets, which fa&s;ten to the Board by making Holes in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> tye them to it: On the top of this Wheel you may fa&s;ten little Statues of Babies, as Soldiers, Drummers, or the like; and as the Wheel turns, they will move about like Anticks, with much delight to the Spectators: And &s;o have you fini&s;hed your Ca&s;tle; to fire it, fir&s;t fire the four
<PB N="34" REF="19">Canes in the four Boxes at the corners, then fire the Wheel at the top; and la&s;tly, fire the Cotten-wick at the Gate, and &s;o the Reports will by degrees fire upwards, and in the end conclude with a Volley of Shot. If it be exactly made, it will continue a long &s;pace with abundance of delight.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>How to make Reports for a Ca&s;tle.</HEAD>
<P>FIRST make a Coffin of Paper choaked as be|fore, of what &s;ize you plea&s;e, then fill it about an Inch and a half with Corn-powder, ramming it clo&s;e; and at the end ram in a piece of Paper as you do to a Mosket, leaving the M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">uth open, and then it is fini&s;hed: When you u&s;e them, prime the Mouth of it but a little</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>How to make Rockets for the Ground.</HEAD>
<P>FIRST provide a Rocket (ready fini&s;hed) <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">s for the fire, then put the Breech of it into <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Bladder, blow the Bladder up, and then fa&s;ten it at the choaking place, by tying it clo&s;e: When you fire it, throw it from you, and the force of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> when it comes to the Ground will make it rebo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> and &s;o be in a continual Agitation.</P>
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<HEAD>THE ART<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> GARDENING: <HI>Shewing the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> Times for ordering Cattle: Al&s;o Orchards, Gardens, Hop-Gardens, Flower-Gardens, and Bees, throughout the Year.</HI></HEAD>
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<P>GARDENS ought to be in a free open Air to the Ea&s;t and South, but South Ea&s;t it be&s;t, and the North, defended by tall Trees, by the Hou&s;e, or indeed by both, which is better than Hills, for Hills to Trees are not &s;o good, becau&s;e they give too great a Reflection of Heat in Summer, and likewi&s;e hin|der the cool &s;erene Air that often comes from thence: Tall Trees break the Wind and fierce Air, that in Spring and Winter damage the mo&s;t delicate Plants and Flowers, affording mo&s;t, plea&s;ant, &s;weet Air, and Shade in hot Weather.</P>
<P>As to your Ground, the Quality thereof ought to be inquir'd into; a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">d it's a great Happine&s;s to en|joy good Ground, for it will yield more than that which is mended at great Co&s;t and Charge. The Quality of your Ground it to be regarded, as whe|ther it be &s;oft or &s;trong, light, dry, or moi&s;t; and how to chu&s;e proper Trees to plant it withal; al&s;o what &s;ort is proper to me<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">d tho&s;e that grow on dry warm Ground, a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> make them bear the be&s;t &s;orts of Fr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">it. Tho&s;e that gro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> on moi&s;t Ground, produce large Fruit, tho' not not &s;o plea&s;ant, nor well-ta&s;ted as the forme; as you may ob&s;erve in we<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> or dry Years, all La<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">d proper for Wheat, Barley, Rye, Beans, Peas, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> are ki<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">dly for O<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">cha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ds; the mo&s;t improper is extream hot and dry Sands; and on the contrary, Grounds that are very wet and cold.</P>
<PB N="2" REF="20">
<P>In Ground that is moi&s;t, don't dig your Holes too deep, but heighten your Ground, and be careful; before you plant Trees you may cut the Roots that &s;hoot down, more e&s;pecially the Pin-roots, or el&s;e you mu&s;t put Bru&s;hes underneath, that the Water &s;hoot off, and the Ro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">t not &s;trike too deep into the cold Earth. The upper Ground is always the be&s;t, for what is deep in the Ground, has not felt the He<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">t of the Sun, nor received the &s;weet Moi&s;ture of Rain or Dew.</P>
<P>A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> for Soils proper, and all other Matters requi|&s;ite to be known, I refer you to peru&s;e <HI>Meager'<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> Com|pleat Engli&s;h Gardener,</HI> adorn'd with 24 Copper Cuts of Garden-Plars, which is the mo&s;t plain and ea&s;ie Book extant, that I know of. It's &s;old at the <HI>Ring</HI> in <HI>Little Britain</HI> for 4 <ABBR><HI>s.</HI></ABBR> 6 <ABBR><HI>d.</HI></ABBR></P>
<P>The Mi&s;carriages and Di&s;appointments that are met with in Planting, proceed, Fir&s;t, From the wan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> of Knowledge, which is the be&s;t and propere&s;t &s;orts of Plants for Fruit, and often u&s;ing the wor&s;t. Second|ly, For want of their being well order'd and manag|ged after they are planted. Thirdly, Some Sea&s;ons have of late prov'd bad, and &s;poil'd Fruit, tho' the greate&s;t Care and Skill have been made u&s;e of.</P>
<P>To remedy the&s;e Inconveniencies, endeavour to find out &s;uch Gardeners as will deal faithfully by you, and &s;uch as have Judgment to know the va&s;t Difference of Fruit, for there are &s;everal &s;orts of Fruit, which &s;ome call by one N<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">me<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">d &s;ome by another: and Mi&s;takes of this Kind of<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">en cau&s;e a quite different &s;ort to be &s;et, not proper to your Purpo&s;e, being neither proper for your Soul not Ex|po&s;ure, and &s;eldom or never comes to M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">tu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ry: Nay, tho' you have the be&s;t, if the Soil and Expo|&s;ure be not proper, they may grow, but will not ar|rive at that Perfection or M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">ty which th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">e do that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">wn or planted in a proper a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">d agreeable Soil; heref<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">re et your Gardener he acquai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ted w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">th the A&s;pect <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">f the Wall you de&s;ign to plan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">, as al&s;o to the Height and Extent of it, and what &s;ort
<PB N="3" REF="20">of Earth it &s;tands upon, whether hot and dry, or cold and moi&s;t, that he may regulate and furni&s;h the whole Plantation with Trees proper and nece&s;&s;ary.</P>
<P>T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e well ordering or man<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ging of Trees is to be chiefly regarded; for if you plant again&s;t an old W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ll, where other Trees have dy'd the Year before, and put 'em in ju&s;t where the others were, it is g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">eat Odds but your Expectation is fru&s;trated. Or if it be a new Wall, if the E<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">th 'tis &s;et in be not good and proper, tho' you fill up your Borders with good Earth, it will return back again, and &s;o your Fruit will be &s;mall, and have little Ta&s;te or Goodne&s;s, Therefore u&s;e a proper Depth and Width, with good Earth, and let your Fruit-Trees be carefully Plantedand headed in their proper Times and Sea&s;ons, and like|wi&s;e water'd in Summer, with the Borders clear'd from Weeds: Let nothing be &s;own by them, as Beans, Pea&s;e, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> nor yet any Flowers, for all the&s;e &s;uck away the Nouri&s;hment from them; and be &s;ure let all your Fruit Trees be well pruned, and the Fruit carefully pick'd and look'd after, or you'll ne|ver obtain what you expect.</P>
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<HEAD>As to the mo&s;t proper Sea&s;ons.</HEAD>
<P>When you have u&s;ed a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">l your Endeavours to plant and graft according to the Nature of your Ground, the various Sea&s;ons (either too much Rain, or too much Cold) give a quite different turn to your Fruit: &s;ometimes 'twill prove &s;mall, &s;ometimes watry, and of little or no value; nay, you would &s;carce be|lieve the &s;ame Trees could produce &s;uch different Fruit: Therefore if when you have u&s;ed the pro|per Means, your Expectation is fru&s;trated, what mu&s;t be the Fate of tho&s;e who are carele&s;s, and per|haps plant Pears, Apricocks, Peaches, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> not re|garding the &s;everal A&s;pects again&s;t the Wall which is requir'd, as, when they &s;hould plant again&s;t a South, they do't again&s;t a North, or North-Ea&s;t Wall, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Likewi&s;e ob&s;erve in Trees, you are to plant again&s;t a Wall, you do not plant 'em for D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ar&s;s, for then they will not come to their due Perfection.</P>
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<P>Great Allowances mu&s;t be made for the Fickle|ne&s;s of Sea&s;ons, the Diver&s;ity of Soils and Climates, (which are almo&s;t numberle&s;s) and to the Nature of the Trees and Stock, and to the way that Trees grow to the greate&s;t Perfection; the&s;e are Things that require mature Con&s;ideration, and a quick Apprehen&s;ion, to balance the Opinions of proper Judges.</P>
<P>'Tis a great Matter to know the Nature of the &s;everal Soils, their Infirmities, and their proper Remedies, with the Applications requir'd to invi|gorate exhau&s;ted Mold, &s;weeten the foul and tain|ted, reduce the &s;owre, har&s;h, &s;tubborn, dry, and overmoi&s;t, and dilated Earth to its genuine Tem|per and Con&s;titution; and what Scituations and A&s;pects are mo&s;t adapt to the &s;everal &s;orts of dwarf, &s;tandard, and other Fruit-trees.</P>
<P>The requi&s;ite Qualifications of a good Gardener are &s;uch as the&s;e, <HI>viz.</HI> He &s;hould be a middle aged Man, vigorous and active, one of Experience and a large Capacity. Diligent, Hone&s;t, and Good-na|tur'd, which are Qualifications nece&s;&s;ary for any Per&s;on.</P>
<P>As for the Expo&s;ure of Gardens, if they be of a &s;trong Earth that is cold, to be expo&s;ed to the South is be&s;t; if light and hot, then the Ea&s;t is counted be&s;t; the Nor hern A&s;pect in <HI>England</HI> is be&s;t for Baking Fruit; the Ea&s;tern Expo&s;ure is &s;ub|ject to the North-Ea&s;t Wind which withers the Leaves and new Shoots; be&s;ides Ea&s;tern Wall-Fruit have little benefit of the Rain which gene|rally comes from the We&s;t; and as the Ea&s;tern Expo&s;ure is &s;ubject to North-Ea&s;t Winds, &s;o the We&s;tern &s;uffers by North-We&s;t Winds in Spring, and the Fruit in Autumn is often blown down by them; and as all Expo&s;ures have their Advanta|ges and Di&s;advantages, it requires &s;ome con&s;ide|rable Prudence and Skill to prevent the latter.</P>
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<HEAD>THE GARDENER'S <HI>Monthly Calendar.</HI></HEAD>
<DIV3 N="january" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>In <HI>JANUARY,</HI></HEAD>
<P>PLOUGH up your Pea&s;e Ground, or fallow it; water Meadows and Pa&s;ture, drain arrable Land, de&s;ign'd for Pea&s;e, Barley or Oats, wean Calves, remove Bees, dung Pa&s;tures, prune Fruit|trees and Vines, and other Trees, and bare their Roots; plant Timber Trees and Coppice Wood, &s;et Quick-&s;ets, cut away Ant-hills, gather your Stones, take care of Ewes and Lambs, geld Cattle, keep your &s;elf warm, drink a Gla&s;s of good White wine fa&s;ting, &s;et Beans and Pea&s;e if mild Weather, and begin to graft and gather Cions for grafting, &s;ow Coll<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">flowers, make hot Beds, &s;ow Sallads, cover the choice Flowers and Plants, de&s;troy Vermine, and Bull-finches and Sparrows, that &s;poil the Heads of Fruit-trees, by Lime-twigs, Sh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">oting, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> your Bee|hives turn up and &s;prinkle with Wort, dig weedy Hop-Gardens, bleed not the 1&s;t, 2d, 10th, 15th, or 20th, except the Sign be good, clean&s;e Trees of Mo&s;s, by findging it off with a handful of Wheat or Rye Straw, pre&s;erve Gilliflowers and Auricula's from too much Wet and Snow keep the Con&s;er|vatory clo&s;e where the Greens are hou&s;ed. If it freeze hard, put &s;ome lighted Charcoal in the mid&s;t of the Room, let in Sun &s;hine at Noon, and &s;hut it clo&s;e again as it declines the Door.</P>
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<DIV3 N="february" TYPE="month">
<HEAD><HI>In</HI> FEBRUARY.</HEAD>
<P>SET or &s;ow all &s;orts of Beans, Pea&s;e, and other Pul&s;e, dung your Plough and Pa&s;ture Ground, &s;preading it before the Plough, the &s;tiffer your
<PB N="6" REF="22">Ground, begin your arrable Land the &s;ooner, take heed of Cold, plant Quick-&s;ets, &s;et Poplers, Al|ders, Willows, and other Aquaticks, &s;ow Mu&s;tard and Hemp-&s;eed, if a mild Spring, bleed not except the Sign be good, on the 4th, 6th, or 8th Day; cover the Roots of Trees, and clean&s;e from Mo&s;s and Caterpillars, &s;et A&s;paragus, Raddi&s;h, Par&s;nips, Carriots, Onions, Colliflowers, Garlick, plant Cab|bages, Potatoes, Par&s;ley, Spinage, and other hardy Pot herbs; de&s;troy Vermine and Bull&s;inches, pick up Snails, plant Hops and dre&s;s them, half open the Pa&s;&s;age for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ees, and remove them, &s;tow Fi&s;h|ponds, water Oranges and Lemons with Water wherein Sheeps-Dung has been &s;teeped two or three Days in the Air or Sun; but let it not touch the Leaves, for it will de&s;troy them.</P>
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<DIV3 N="march" TYPE="month">
<HEAD><HI>In</HI> MARCH.</HEAD>
<P>ADry <HI>March</HI> generally produces Plenty, &s;ow Turneps, Beans, Barley, lop, graft, and re|move Trees and Plants, take Cattle out of the Mar&s;hes and Meadows you intend to mow, rowl Wheat, if the Weather prove dry, make an end of &s;owing all &s;orts of Pul&s;e, brew your be&s;t Beer, and rai&s;e the be&s;t Brood of Poultry, &s;et O&s;iers and Wil|lows, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> &s;ow <HI>March</HI> Rye, &s;ow Hemp and Flax, if temperate Weather, al&s;o Clover and St Foin, and other French Gra&s;&s;es, kill Moles, &s;ow white Pea&s;e, graft all &s;ort of Fruit-trees, &s;et Sage, Ro&s;emary, Lavend<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> and Time, &s;ow Endive, Succory, Leeks, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">addi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">, Beets, Far&s;nips: Skirrits, Par&s;ley, Sorrel, B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">glo&s;s, Borage, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">hervil, Lettice, Onions, Gar|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ck Turneps, Pea&s;e, Carriots, Cabbages, Cre&s;&s;es, Fennel, Ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">joram, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> cover the Roots of Trees laid bare, cover Muskmelions Plants on hot Beds, with Beer-gla&s;&s;es 'till you remove them, dre&s;s up and firing your Strawberry-beds, &s;ow Pinks, Car|nations, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> plant all Garden Herbs and Flowers that have fibrous Roots, plant Hops and dre&s;s them, the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> now fit, keep them Morning and Night clo&s;e, if bad Weather you may yet remove them,
<PB N="7" REF="22">&s;take and bind up the weake&s;t Plants again&s;t the Wind, turn your Fruit in the Rooms where they lie, eat Rea&s;ons and Figs, and Sweetmeats.</P>
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<DIV3 N="april" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>APRIL.</HEAD>
<P>A Dry <HI>April</HI> is good to fallow Ground in, and a dry Sea&s;on prevents VVeeds growing among Barley; purge and bleed; lop A&s;hes, and &s;et VVil|lows; pick up Stones, &s;ow Hemp and Flax, &s;et O&s;iers, VVillows, and other Aquaticks, clean&s;e Ditches, &s;ow Clover, Saint-Foin, and all French Gra&s;&s;es and Hays, &s;ow Marjoram, Hy&s;op, Ba&s;ill, Thime, VVinter-&s;avory, Scurvey-gra&s;s, Raddi&s;h, Pur&s;ley, Lettuce, Marrigolds, Carnations, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> &s;et &s;lips of Artichoaks, Lavender, Thime, Ro&s;emary, &s;et French Beans, remove Shrubs, and &s;lip them after Showers, gather up VVorms and Snails, &s;ow Flowers that come of See<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">s, continue Hot Beds, for Exoticks that arrive not to Perfection without them, bring out of the Con&s;ervatory the tender Plants, except the Orange tree, which may remain till <HI>May,</HI> put Tiles over your be&s;t Tulips, plant Hops, and pole them, and bind them to the Poles, open the Doors of Beehives, for now they hatch, and be careful of them.</P>
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<HEAD>MAY.</HEAD>
<P>ANgling is now in its Splendour, wean Lambs, kill Ivy, feed your rank Corn with Sheep, or mow it, &s;ow Buck-wheat, late<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> Pea&s;e Flax and Hemp may yet be &s;own, fallow your &s;tiff Clays, &s;tub the Roots of Broom, Fern, Go&s;s, burn Bait, weed Quick-&s;ets, drain Fens and wet Grounds, carry out Soil and Compo&s;t, turn out Calves to Gra&s;s, mow Clover Gra&s;s, and Saint Foin, and other French Gra&s;&s;es, take care of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">heep if wet VVeather, lea&s;t the Rot take them, plant all &s;orts of VV<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">nter Greens, &s;et Sage and Ro&s;emary, tran&s;|plant Amaranths, <HI>Fl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">s <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ffric<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">nus, Na&s;turtium-Indi|cum, Mirabilia Peruviana, &amp;c</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">rom <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> your Hot-Beds with good, rich So<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">l, as much as may be in the Sun, bring out your Oranges and Limons, and
<PB N="8" REF="23">other Greens, give all your Hou&s;hold-plants fre&s;h Earth at the top, in place of &s;ome of the old taken away, a Hand's Depth, with a Fork loo&s;en the re&s;t, without hurting the Roots, bind Hops to their Poles, and make up the Hills after Rain, watch Bees ready to &s;warm, cover no longer your Cucum|bers and Mellons, except with Gla&s;&s;es, &s;ow Pur|&s;lain and Lettuce.</P>
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<DIV3 N="june" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>JUNE.</HEAD>
<P>IN this Month &s;ome mow Hay, &s;hear Sheep and wa&s;h them, ca&s;t Mud out of Ditches, <HI>&amp;c</HI> rai&s;e Swine to breed fallow VVheat Land, manure your Ground, &s;ow Rape and Cole-&s;eed, and Tur|nip-&s;eed, weed Corn, take care of Sheep if wet, &s;et Garden-beans for a latter Crop, &s;et Ro&s;emary, Thyme, Marjoram and Hy&s;op, clip the Branches of Vines, begin to inoculate, water Trees later planted, lay moi&s;t VVeed at the Roots of them de&s;troy Ants and other Vermine, as <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">nails, VVorms <HI>&amp;c.</HI> &s;et Saff<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">on, plant Gilliflowers, &s;ow Lettuce, and other &s;alleting Herbs, gather Seeds that are ripe, tran&s;plant bulbous Roots plant Myrrh, dig Ground for a Hop Garden, and bind &s;uch Hops as the VVind hath <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">haken, to the Poles, mind your Bees, that now &s;warm, take up Anemonies, Ra|nunculas, Tulip-roots, keeping them from mould|ing till planted again, keep Seed of <HI>July</HI> Flowers, that are of good Kind, leting them have but few Layers to give Nouri&s;hment to, keep from Vene|ry, and bleed not, except thou ha&s;t great need, drink VVater, and ea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> temperately.</P>
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<DIV3 N="july" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>JULY.</HEAD>
<P>NOW mow your Hay, and mow your head Lands, graft Apricocks, fallow your Land that wants it, gather Hemp and Flax that is early, reap Corn that is ripe, and manure Ground, &s;ow Turnip-&s;eed, inoculate Ro&s;es and choice Fruit wa|ter young Plants <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">rees and Layers, prune Apri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">cocks and Peaches, let olitory Herbs run to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">eed, &s;ow Lettiuce, Radi&s;h and Chervil, graft and inoculate Je&s;&s;amin
<PB N="9" REF="23">and Oranges, and water Hops if very dry Weather, if it prove moi&s;t, renew and cover the Hill &s;till with fre&s;h Mould. Bees that &s;warm now are worth little, and be&s;t to prevent them if you can
<Q><L><HI>A Swarm of Bees in</HI> May, <HI>is worth a Load of Hay,</HI></L>
<L><HI>A Swarm of Bees in</HI> June, <HI>is worth a Crown.</HI></L>
<L><HI>A Swarm of Bees in</HI> July, <HI>is not worth a Fly.</HI></L></Q> Clip Box out of order after Rain, &s;ow Anemony|&s;eeds in fine &s;ifted rich Earth, in Beds or Boxes, gather early Cyclamen-&s;eeds, and &s;ow it in Pots pre&s;ently, keep from Venery, and bleed not with|out great need, the 13th or 15th is &s;aid to be dan|gerous.</P>
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<DIV3 N="august" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>AUGUST.</HEAD>
<P>LAY Compo&s;t and Soil on Barley and Wheat Land, you may yet lie fallow, provide good Seed, and well picked again&s;t Seed-time, &s;atten Ewes and Cows, get in your Harve&s;t about the end of the Month, mow Clover, Saint-Foin, and other French Gra&s;&s;es, and geld Lambs, forbear all manner of Worts, and Meats and Drink with Spices, pull up young Suckers, inoculate early, prune &s;uperfluous Branches and Shoots of the &s;econd Spring, clip Ro&s;es that have done bearing, &s;ow Ca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">bages and Colliflow|ers for Winte-plants and Scurvey-gra&s;s, Angelica, Endive, Onions, Spinage, Turnips, Marygolds, Par&s;nips, Carrots, Lettuce, Corn &s;allad, and &s;uch Plants as will endure Winter, pull up Garlick and ripe Onions, gather olitory Seeds, gather Seeds of Shrubs that are ripe, now Orange-trees are budding, inoculate therefore at the beginning of the Month, take up Bulbous-roots and Lillies, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> dry and lay them up, plant &s;ome Anemony-roots, earth your Pots of Auricula's, tran&s;plant and divide their Roots in|to a rich, light&s;ome Earth, prop up your Hop-poles the Wind has blown down, at the end of the Month gather Hops, likewi&s;e take Bees, de&s;troy Wa&s;ps and other Vermine, and &s;treighten the Pa&s;&s;age to &s;ecure Bees from Robbers, &s;ow Lark&s;eels, Colum|bines, Holly-hocks, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> remove about <HI>Bartholomew-Tide,</HI>
<PB N="10" REF="24">Perennial Greens, Je&s;&s;amines, Pomegranates, Ro&s;es, and what is obnoxious to Fro&s;ts.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="september" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>SEPTEMBER</HEAD>
<P>GELD Cattle, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> &s;ow Ponds, put up Boars in the Stye, put Swine into the Woods, amend your Fences, eat ripe Fruit, bleed in the 17th or 18th. for Phren&s;y, Drop&s;y, or Falling-Evil, and it pre&s;erves thee that Year, beat out Hemp-&s;eed and water Hemp, gather Ma&s;t, manure your Wheat-Lands before the Plough, make Cyder and Perry, gather your Winter-Fruit that is ripe, &s;ow Lettuce, Raddi&s;hes, Spinage, Colliflowers, Cabbages and Winter-herbs and Roots, plant Strawberries out of the Woods, earth up Winter-plants, Sallad herbs, take up Bees, and &s;traiten the Entrance of their Hives, al&s;o you may remove them, &s;ow Turnips, Onions tran&s;plant Artichoaks, and plant Tulips and other bulbous Roots, tran&s;plant fibrous Roots, gather Saffron, gather and dry Hops, clean&s;e the Poles of the Hawm, and lay up the Poles, put your choice Plants in the Con&s;ervatory, and &s;helter tho&s;e that are tender, Myrtles w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ll endure near a Month longer, &s;et Plants that will not endure the Hou&s;e, into the Earth, the Pots beneath the Surface two or three <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">nches, covering them with Gla&s;&s;es, cl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ath|ed with &s;weet and dry Mo&s;s, on warm Days, and Sunny Showers, uncover them, make thin Turnips when they grow too thick.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="october" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>OCTOBER</HEAD>
<P>BARLEY Land lay as dry as can be, Seed|time continues for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">, water the Furrow, and drain Corn Land new &s;own, &s;ow Aco<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ns or Nuts, Ma&s;ter or Berries for Timber Coppice and Hedges, &s;ow ea&s;e in fat warm Land and la&s;h Quick &s;ets, wean Foles, fell Sheep you will not VVinter, mind your <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">alting &s;cower Ditches and Ponds, u&s;e Phy&s;ick moderately, and Recreation, feed on good Dier, tran&s;plant Fruit-trees, having lo&s;t their Leaves trench the &s;tiffer Grounds, Or|chard<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> or Gardening, &s;et Fruit-&s;tones three Inches
<PB N="11" REF="24">deep, the &s;harp end upermo&s;t, and cover them with Fern or Straw, plant Hops, and pack up tho&s;e that are dry, remove Bees, hou&s;e your Hiacinths, Tuberous, &s;et choice Tulips, plaat Anemonies and Ranuncula's, and cover them from the Fro&s;t, and give them Air in temperate VVeather, bury all &s;orts of bulbous Roots, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ow Carpet-works and Ca|momile.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="november" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>NOVEMBER.</HEAD>
<P>ON burn baited Lands you may &s;till &s;ow VVheat, kill Poultry and Swine, fell Cop|pice wood, and plant Timber and Fruit-trees, bunch Flax and Hemp, thra&s;h out VVheat till <HI>March,</HI> lea&s;t it prove mu&s;ty, lay Stuff and Straw in moi&s;t Places for to rot for Dung, and lay Dung on Heaps, de&s;troy Ant-hills, and drown Meadows that are fed low, furni&s;h your Nur&s;ery with Stocks for grafting, turn Mellon Ground, and mix it with rich Earth, that of the la&s;t Year's Hot-beds, and lay it in the Spring in Ridges, trench and fit Ground for Artichoaks, plant Trees that are Standards, or fit for the VVall, c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">op A&s;paragus, and cover it with long Dung, and make Trees to plant in the Spring, &s;et and &s;ow early Pea&s;e and Beans, lay in Cellars for to tran&s;plant in the Spring Colliflowers, Cabbages, Turnips, Par&s;nips and Carrots, plant fibrous Roots, &s;ow Auricula-&s;eeds, cover Ranuncu|la's that begin to peep, plant fibrous Roots, Ro&s;es, Alt<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ea, Fruitex, Lilax, Syringays, Peonies <HI>&amp;c.</HI> if the Weather is hard, quite enclo&s;e your perennial Greens and tender Plants, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> pre&s;erve your Con|&s;ervatory from &s;harp Winds, if the Plants are very dry, and it does not freeze, refre&s;h them &s;paringly with qualified Water, <HI>i. e.</HI> Water mingled with Cow-dung, and a little Sheeps-dung; if it freezes in the Green-hou&s;e, keep a finall Charcoal Fire in the middle of it, if a fair Day, and Sun &s;hine, &s;how them the Light, and enclo&s;e them again at the Suns going off water not Sedums nor Aloes all VVin|ter, dung Hop-gardens, and mix it with &s;tore of
<PB N="12" REF="25" MS="y">Earth to rot again&s;t Spring, &s;top your Bees clo&s;e, or Hou&s;e them till <HI>March.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="december" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>DECEMBER.</HEAD>
<P>HOUSE Cattle, cut Timber, fell Coppice-wood, fatten Swi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e, bleed Cattle, plant all Trees that &s;hed their Leaves that are not too tender, plough Land for Beans, overflow Meadows, a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">d drain your Corn-fields, plant Vines and Stocks for grafting, prune and nail VVall-fruit, and Standard-fruits, or you may defer them &s;ix or eight VVeeks longer, &s;et all &s;orts of Stones and Kerne<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">s, kill Vermine pre&s;erve Anemonies from Rain and Fro&s;t, and keep your Con&s;ervatory well matted and warm; if open VVea|ther, &s;et Ranuncula's in a Bed of rotten Thatch or Straw, with good Mo&s;s above and below, &s;et Ane|monies in rich lomy Earth, dig a weedy Hop garden, and Dung it, mixing it with Earth, feed weak Stocks of Bees, bleed not, except great need, &s;leep from the Fire &s;ide.</P>
</DIV3>
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD><HI>To make a Liquour of more Value than Tea or Coffee</HI> &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>TAKE a quart of Conduit, Spring, o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> River|water; boil it 6 or 7 min then put into it whil&s;t boiling hot, about 25 or 30 Leaves of Sage of Virtue <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">red, or common Sage, and about half the quantity of Ro&s;emary with about 12, 15, or 20 Grains of Saffron; let them boil in the Liquour about 6 or 7 min clo&s;e &s;topt, then you may pour it off, and drink what quantity of it you think fit, as a quarter or half a Pint; &s;weeten it with white Sugar, and you may eat Bread and Butter with it if you plea&s;e. This Liquor far exceeds Coffee, Tea <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and is good again&s;t Foi&s;on, re&s;i&s;ting it, all Infections and pe&s;ti|lential Air, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">i&s;om Stinks; it comforts the Spi|rits, &s;trengthens the Brain Heart and Nerves breeds good Blood, expels <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ll Humours, if they off<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">nd the Stomach and Body. It is in &s;hort, a general Pre&s;er|vative again&s;t all Di&s;tempers, e&s;pecially tho&s;e reign|ing ones of <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">gue</HI> a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">d <HI>curvey.</HI> This I recommend for the Good of my Country, without Fee or Re|ward.</P>
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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