Markham on Sage
Jan. 20th, 2005 08:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyjadwigaGervase Markham, The English Husbandman on sage:
"Sage is in gardens most common, because it is most wholesome, and though it may be better set from the slip then sowen in the seede, yet both will prosper, it loveth any well drest ground, and may be sowen either in February , March, September, or October: it loveth also to grow thicke and close together, and will of it selfe overcome most weedes: it asketh not much dung, neithe too great care in watring, onely it would be oft searched, for Toades and other venemous thnings will delight to lye under it, the more Sunne and ayre it hath, the better it is. (p. 26-- 2nd book, chapter V).
Also, in Chapter 1 of the same, he says " In the month of May . . .Sage with sweet Butter is a most excellent breakefast..."
Obviously, if I'm writing a period treatise, I can't mention him by name in the treatise, since his books are postperiod. However, I can make reference to 'what people say'.
"Sage is in gardens most common, because it is most wholesome, and though it may be better set from the slip then sowen in the seede, yet both will prosper, it loveth any well drest ground, and may be sowen either in February , March, September, or October: it loveth also to grow thicke and close together, and will of it selfe overcome most weedes: it asketh not much dung, neithe too great care in watring, onely it would be oft searched, for Toades and other venemous thnings will delight to lye under it, the more Sunne and ayre it hath, the better it is. (p. 26-- 2nd book, chapter V).
Also, in Chapter 1 of the same, he says " In the month of May . . .Sage with sweet Butter is a most excellent breakefast..."
Obviously, if I'm writing a period treatise, I can't mention him by name in the treatise, since his books are postperiod. However, I can make reference to 'what people say'.
