“ Prune your wall trees, lay gillyflowers and carnations, sow lettuce, and spinnage, for latter sallading, transplant or remove tulips, or other bulbous roots, plant cuttings of myrtles, but let them not have too much sun at first. Remove your large sided cabbage planted in may, to head in autumn. Keep weed from growing to seed, and begin your howing. Gather the snails from your wall-fruit, but pull n (illegible text) off the bitter fruit, for then they will begin with others. ”

“ February—Now is a very good time for grafting the forward sort of fruit trees: If the weather be temperate, sow hardy seeds, as pease, beans radishes, parsnips, carrots, onions, parsley, spinnage: make up hot beds for onions, cucumbers, and such like: Lay branches of vines, roses, wood (illegible text) nes, jessamines, lauriestinus, phileroy, pyracutha, &ct. plant goose-berries, currants, raspberries, and begin to plant herd herbs towards the latter end of the month: transplant cabbage and colliflowers, and sow asparagus. ”

“ September—Transplant colliflowers and cabbages that were sowed in August: plant tulips, and othe bulbous roots you formerly took up, take off your carnation layers, and plant them where they are to stand the winter, remove fruit trees from September till March, except in frost: set cuttings of bays, laurels, &c. Transplant most sorts of herbs and flowers, gather hops the beginning of this month, and sow your wheat and rye. ”

“ For a broken wind, take a boars dung and powder it, and pour a good quantity of it into milk luke warm, give the horse a quart every third day and in four or five times it will cure him.
For a horse cough, take five or six eggs, and lay them in sharp white wine-vinegar, till the shells be somewhat soft, then sling them down his throat and it will cure forthwith. ”

“ In the placing of your bees, observe (illegible text) be so that in the winter and spring, the face of the hives in (illegible text) stand to the rising sun; and so order it that neither in winter nor summer, they be too hot or too cold observing above all things, that the air be w (illegible text) some, as also the herbs, plants, and flowers growing about them. The herbs, &c. that bees most delight in, are these, Thyme, (illegible text) affi (illegible text) , Rosemary, Savory, Smellage, Violets Sage, Lavender Myrrh Wild Marjoram, Wild Thyme, Balm, Sweet Marjoram. ”

“ Lawrel and all bitter herbs and flowers. They thrive better in the vallies than on the hills, and love to be near clear water springs. The best honey is extracted from Thyme, the second from wild Thyme, and the third from Rosemary. As for their hives, you may place them in three ranks, and (illegible text) nd a yard one above another; suffer them to be quiet and undesturbed, keeping all hurtful creatures from them: as the Toad, Redbreast, Wood peckers, Moth, Hornet, Lizard, Swallow, Sparrow, Spider, Butterfly, Serpent, and Stork: all which are utter enemies to the bees. ”

“ If you transport them far, the change of the air many times incom (illegible text) odes them; to remedy which you must let them in pleasant gardens, or scatter sweet smelling herbs about their hives. The best way to carry them is upon a man's shoulders in sheets upon a pole; one hive behind, and the other before, in the night-time when they are at rest, being very cautious of (illegible text) them for fear of mashing their comb ”

“ Moths—About August they appear, and that mostly in the night, and if you set a candle in an apple tree lighted in the night, they will fly about it and burn themselves, and you'll find abundance of them dead in the morning. ”

“ Or if a stock be decayed, you may put two hives together, by killing the king or master-bee of the one hive. If at any time two (illegible text) es swarm together and fight, cast dust upon the (illegible text) es or sprinkle them with the juice of pleasant herbs, or honey and water boil'd; and the fray will (illegible text) d.
It the master-bee of any hive be too apt to lead the swarm abroad, and by that means endanger (illegible text) ing them, to prevent this roving, clip his wings, (illegible text) then not daring to trust them, he will stay at home. ”

“ Field rats and mice-In the dog days the fields (illegible text) generally bare, then find out their holes or nests, which are little and round, like an augre-hole, and (illegible text) hemlock feed thereinto, or hellebore mixt with barley; they eat it greedily, so it kills them. ”

“ When you have brought them to the place you intend, if it be day time, you must neither open nor place them till night, to the end that s (illegible text) the quiet rest in the night, they may go chearfully to work the next, morning ”

“ April.—Achtermuchty, 9 day. Ecclefechan market, friday after 11 day Dunfermline, 4 wednes. Kippen, 2 wednesday. Anstruther-easter, first tuesday after 11 day. Dumbarton, Couper of Angus, (illegible text) Aberdeen, Melrofe and Elgin, thursday before Easter, Lanark last wednesday. Couper in Fife, 1 wednes. O. S. Sheep markets every tuesday. Stri (illegible text) en last tuesday, O. S. Falkland last thursday. Auchertgeavan, last tues. N. S. Bathgate, 2 wed (illegible text) ay. N. S.
May.—Muthal and Dysart, 6 day. Carluke, 10 day. Ecclefechan market, friday after 11 day. Greenlaw, 22 day. ”