to? 



quarters immediately enfuing : fo that if a full 

 moonebe proper, I fee no renfon why it may not be 

 effe&uall , by vertueof the famephafis the third, 

 as the firtt or the twelveth,as the fixt day of the feed- 

 lings augmentation. 



The meliorating of ground belongs to the head of 

 Improvement; here I fhall only obferve that where 

 ground is very light , as in fome Londonand Kentifh 

 gardens,it is found profitable afcer fovingto tread in 

 die feed. 



Some deep all garden feed before they fow them 

 to make the germination the more fpeedy, but feeing 

 there be no better waves of infuiion than in Larth and 

 Water,why the fame bofome of a well watered ground 

 fhould nor be raoft fit for this operation I fee not. 



In feeds that are long in coming up, the feed bed 

 is nor to be digged up the firft winter : For I know 

 diverfe feeds that will for a great part of them ly un- 

 der gropnd rhe firft, year and come up the fecond; of 

 this Nature is the Afh-key fometunes , the Peach, 

 Malecorone and fome Plums. 



N. ^ . Of variety of klndeS , differ eta in colour jajfe, 

 fmell^and othsr fenjible qualities proceeding from fome 

 feeds , and what flouts they are that bring feeds yeild- 

 fuch va rlety. 



In Carnations you have feeds that give admirable 

 Variety from the Orange-tawny Carnation and all 

 his ftrip't kinds that are double and keepe their taw- 

 ny in them in any meafure. The white, Tawny and 

 Carnations darkly fported , Verrarlm commends for 

 producing variety of colours and (Iripes. Kernells of 

 divers 'Apples and Peares bring variety of kinds , 

 different in tafte, fmell, colour, and hardneffe , and 



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