Purslane must be sowne in February or March, in a new Moone. Margeram, Violets, and Time must be sowne in February, March, or April, in a new Moone. Floure-gentle, Rosemary, and Lavender, must be sowne in February or April, in a new Moone. Rocket and Garden Cresses must be sowne in February, in a new Moone. Savell must be sowne in February or March, in a new Moone. Saffron must be sowne in March, when the Moone is old. Coriander and Borage must be sowne in February or March, in a new Moone. Hartshorne and Samphire must be sowne in February, March, or April, when the Moone is old. Gilly-floures, Harts-ease, and Wall-floures, must be sowne in March or April, when the Moone is old. Cardons and Artochokes must be sowne in April or March, when the Moone is old. Chickweed must be sowne in February or March, in the full of the Moone. Burnet must be sowne in February or March, when the Moone is old. Double Marigolds must be sowne in February or March, in a new Moone. Isop and Savorie must be sowne in March when the Moone is old. White Poppey must be sowne in February or March, in a new Moone. Palma Christi must be sowne in February, in a new Moone. Sparages and Sperage is to be sowne in February, when the Moone is old. Larks-foot must be sowne in February, when the Moone is old. Note that at all times and seasons, Lettuce, Raddish, Spinage and Parsneps may be sowne. Note, also, from cold are to be kept Coleworts, Cabbage, Lettuce, Basill, Cardons, Artochokes, and Colefloures. In ‘The English Gardener’ (1683) and ‘The Dutch Gardener’ (1703) many instructions are given as to the manner of treating plants with special regard to the phases of the Moon; and Rapin, in his poem on Gardens, has the following lines:-- “If you with flow’rs would stock the pregnant earth, Mark well the Moon propitious to their birth: For earth the silent midnight queen obeys, And waits her course, who, clad in silver rays, Th’ eternal round of times and seasons guides, Controls the air, and o’er the winds presides. Four days expir’d you have your time to sow, Till to the full th’ increasing Moon shall grow; This past, your labour you in vain bestow: Nor let the gard’ner dare to plant a flow’r While on his work the heav’ns ill-boding low’r; When Moons forbid, forbidding Moons obey, And hasten when the Stars inviting beams display.”