SECT. IV. OF A GARDEN. $$_ 



Hard water is softened by throwing in .a little 

 dung, lime, marie, or earth, and rather that of a 

 loamy nature, or clay, which will greatly- fit it for 

 use. Some persons keep chalk in wells, ciste'rns, 

 &c. to soften the water ; and others have kept hard 

 water on bruised oyster-shells a few \days in a -tub* 

 with a view to watering flowers, c. others have, put 

 a bag of barley in it, finding the wate* ,that has been 

 used in malting, is rendered very soft, though ever: 

 so hard when put on the grain. Fresh bran softens 

 \vater much, stirring it up now and then tor; 

 two. 1 At any rate, however, let , hard water 

 exposed to the sun and air, as long .a&iuay be ; ; 

 few hours will improve it, but a few <Ja\g will 

 qualify it for vegetation. /TTUJ > ii,; rij? s. vis ?. 



Water is sometimes enriched withxlungs and. salts: 

 Some experiments of putting a .small quality vpjf 

 nitre into water to keep flowers flourishing: in -puiaisi 

 and rooted plants in pots, appear-to ( rxruve beriefjeial. 

 That coarser way of impregnating water with dutigs 

 may -be useful to pots of plants that are too lull 01" 

 roots, or to any thing growing in a poor soil ;. buj 

 the water should not be made too rank, or suffered 

 to touch the leaves ; it should stand also in the aim 

 two or three days, and be stirred, up- now and then. 

 Sheep' s-dung for the purpose, is to be preferred* 

 though others may do. Let the rule be, tp iinpregi 

 nate the water about an equivalent of aa ounce of 

 sea-salt to a gallon : A stronger mixture might do 

 mischief; yet a rich one poured plentifully on old 

 asparagus beds in autumn and spring would do much 

 good in renovating them. 



The MANAGEMENT of a garden, as somewhat 

 distinct from the cultivation of it, is an object of 

 consequence ; i. e. to keep it in such OHDEH, thai it 

 may not fail in those general impressions of pleasure, 

 it is capable of affording, when things are she\vn in. 



