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takeftraw, or Litter ofanhorfe ftable , and lay fome 

 thereof about every Root of your Gilly-flo»vers, efpe- 

 cially the belt forts , clofe unto them npon the 

 ground, being carefu 11 that none lye upon the green 

 lewes, or as little as may be : Let it lie till OPUrch 

 ( with its winds ) is paft. The generall Remedy 

 for thefe and all flowers, is to be covered with mats , 

 which,are remove 1 . blear pleasure. The cboiceft of all 

 are put in pots and houfed. 



Num. 3. Of jh*des requtfite ta fmdry TUnts, effect- 

 ally when yonr.g y for their defence frsm the Snn 

 and Winde. 



All forts of Carnations, Gilly-flowers, and Plants 

 that are tender and vong, efpecially your April and 

 May Seedlings, are to be preferved and defended 

 from the violent heat of the Sun , and blading 

 Winds: I have feen whole Beds of divers forts 

 of young Seedlings, utterly burnt up at their 

 firft appearing, by the violence of two or th r ee 

 hot days. Nor do Seedlings onely require this, but 

 all Plants that are not altogether >\ild, of how woody 

 fublhnce foever, that are newly growing, from cut- 

 tings, or parts without actual Roots. 



Shades are commodious, if not abfolutely necef- 

 fary to many Plants, even when they are well rooted, 

 as Bays, Lawrel, Savin, and mot! Wood-plants, a 

 mixture of Shade and Sun to Straw-berries ; fo that 

 the Lord Bacon wittily advifes, to fprinkle a little 

 Forrage-feed on the Strawberry-bed , for that the 

 Straw-berries, under thofe Leaves, grow far more 

 large then their fellows. 



The beft fihades are made by thin well pruned 



Hedges, 



