Chap. 2 . concerning E ART H^ &'c. i o i 



ties 5 and all of them, when they are in their 

 Extremes, have need of fome artful Hand to 

 render them of Ufe and Benefit in the Pro- 

 dudion and Growth of Plants. 

 . I know that good Efquire, already mtn-T^heDefea 

 tion'd, the King of Gardners, has handled ff^^f^^ 

 this Subjeft with a great deal of Nicety and siib]ea. 

 Judgment 3 but yet after all his elaborate Rea- 

 fonings, and exad Difpofure of thefe Mate- 

 rials, I cann't guefs that he has ftruck home 

 to the main Point, I mean, the bringing 

 them home to their particular Ufe 5 which 

 fliould be, as it were, - laid down at the Place 

 where they ought to be ufed, in Writing, as 

 in Fad they are or ought to be in the open 

 Garden, and particularly referred to in the 

 Manner and for the Ufe they are to be 

 appropriated to. But this I have mentioned 

 elfewhere. 



My Defign therefore in this Chapter, is of the tm 

 to give fome fmall Account of the two Q}^^'^ZdUies 

 lities, or rather Specifick Parts, there is in,v,Eanh. 

 all Earths 3 and afterwards, Direftions for 

 fuch Compofitions, numbred i, 2, 3, 4, &c. 

 as may fuit the two divided Kinds of Earth 

 above-mention d, ( viz. ) Light Land, or 

 Heavy, to be applied, as I (hall afterwards 

 direft, in the Railing Forejl Trees. 



For the better underftanding of the S^tci- AnAnimate 

 fick Parts of "which Earth is cx)mpos'd, I ^im^ji^inam' 

 to premife. That there are ( fimply ) two ntksiT 

 Parts 3 one, the Body, Bed, or Couch, where- Earth. 

 ip lies latent and is contain d the other, I 

 ^5 J' H 3 mean 



