SECT. V. OF A GARDEN. S7 



to defer that till to-morrow which may be done to day," 

 Procrafiination is of ferious confequence in gar- 

 dening; and neglect of times and feafons is fruitful of 

 difappointment and complaint. It will often happen, 

 indeed, that a gardener cannot do what he would ; but 

 if he does not do what he can, he will be molt juflly 

 blamed, and perhaps cenfured by none more than 



HIMSELF. 



SECTION V, 



OF PROPAGATION. 



PLANTS are propagated hy feeds, fuckers, flips, off- 

 fets, divifions, cuttings, layers, and graffs. 



By feed is the moft general method ot propagation, 

 and plants raided any other way aFe feldom fo fine. 

 Thofe plants from feed which have never been re* 

 moved, are commonly handfomer, and come forwarder, 

 than thofe that have been tranfplanted, provided they 

 were fown in a proper foil and fituation. 



As upon feed being right in kind and good in nature, 

 depends the fuccefs, care mould be taken to procure 

 the beft, and no temptation fuffered to prevail for the 

 ufe of an inferior kind, or of one only fufpecled of 

 being fo, if it can be helped ; for to cultivate a foil, 

 and ufe a wrong or defective feed knowingly, is folly 

 indeed! Large feeds may have the doubtful picked out. 



The largeft feed of the kind, plump and found, is 



to be choien, being well ripened and kept from injuries 



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