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Gardener



For sowing melons well, one needs it to be the end of a
moon cycle for otherwise they would sprout too many leaves &
not bear enough fruit. Make small e holes, two
fingers by two fingers, with a pickaxe
& put in each two or three seeds. Next, take very fine
earth & fill the depressions lightly with it. Next, spread over
all to the thickness of a thumbhavets, that
is to say wheatfl chaff, in order that
coming rain does not beat the earth & prevent their birth.
Havets attract field mice who eat the seeds. And
for avoiding this, one must moisten them with s a
decoction of wormwood.


Glassmaker



Some do not saturate the glass with gris
d'escaille for working as primer, but trace on the clean
glass with noir à huile. But it is very necessary that the
wood be rid of grease, because if it has even a bit of
grease, the color will not take on it at all. And further, if the
glassmaker who is working has a stench from his
nose or his mouthla, & he
breathes on the glass, the color will not take on it.
Those who discovered the invention of working in small works of supple
enamels use only esmail d'azur, which is blue,
& esmail colombin, which is the color of purple,
which they make supple with rock pieces or leaded glass.
As for the yellow, they make it from silver, the red from
sanguine, as is said elsewhere, the black & gray &
shadows with the noir d'escaille, either strong or weak,
the carnation with the light sanguine. The green is made first
from yellow, then on top they coat esmail d'azur, either
strong or weak, according to whether they want to make it bright or
dark.




Yellow Amber



It is cut with a file, then one passes a certain pulverized
salt across the surface, which an Englishman called
desramonet. But I believe that this was pulverized
pumice stone, for it had the harshness of arène. And with a
taut cord, he polished his amber, then passed
tripoli from Bretagne on it with the
finger; others used a piece of leather
or a cane. Amber loses its color if an unhealthy person
wears it, & becomes whitish. But to restore it, it needs to be
soaked for one night in urine, then boiled a
little in it.



