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maay gardens cultivated well, to fupply the markets, 

 where vegetables are both good and reafonable in 

 price. 



By the gentlemen, however, gardening is much at- 



., 

 tended to, and carried to as great perfection as in any 



other country; every vegetable, that our climate will 

 admit of, has found its way to their gardens; their 

 ftoves and green-houfes contain numerous exoticr, re- 

 markable for theif rarity or beauty; and all the dif- 

 ferent kinds of fruits, which require heat and covering, 

 are to be met with at their tables. 



ORCHARDS are rather lofing than gaining ground ; 

 many old trees have been flubbed up, few new ones 

 planted, and of thofe few the fuccefs has not been 

 great. Uncertainty in the produce of orchard grounds, 

 the natural decay of the trees, and the great increafe in 

 the value of land, have contributed to their deftruc- 

 tion, whilft want of (kill, and probably want of care, 

 have given rife to the idea, that lofs of labour and lofs 

 of land would be the only confequence of new planta- 

 'tions. The very great population of this country muft, 

 from the difficulty of preferving the fruit, form, I fear, 

 another bar to the cultivation of apples and other or- 

 chard fruits ; for unlefs they are watched, from the 

 firft formation of the fruit, until their being finally ga- 

 thered, the proprietor has no profpeft of enjoying the. 

 produce. It U difficult to fay, whether the art of 



planting 



