...most fruitful time to plant is on the days ruled by Scorpio, Pisces, Taurus, or Cancer. • Sow peas and beans in the wane of the moon; who soweth them sooner, soweth too soon. • Sow fennel, sow trouble. • Plant catnip and the cats will get it, sow it and...

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...Tusser's "Five Hundred Points of Husbandry," we find the following agricultural directions : " Sow peas and beans in the wane of the moon ; Who soweth them...soweth too soon; That they with the planet may rest and rise, And flourish with bearing most plentiful-wise." Hesiod asserted34 that the fourth day was propitious...

...Good Husbandry, has a metrical version of a similar piece of advice on sowing peas and beans:— " Sow peason and beans, in the wane of the moon, Who soweth them sooner, he soweth too soon; That they witl^the planet may rest and arise, And flourish, with bearing most plentifullwise." Again, when the...

...Candlemas Waddle," that is, the waning moon after the Feast of the Purification. " Sow peas and beams in the wane of the moon ; Who soweth them sooner, he soweth too soon." On February 22nd, we commemorate St. Peter's Chains at Antiooh and St. Margaret of Cortona, penitent,...

...also to be taken into account. Evidently opinions differed, for good old Tusser writes : — Sow Peas and Beans in the wane of the moon, Who soweth them sooner he toweth too soon. There is an old belief, not traceable to any particular country, that a profusion...