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The Time for this Procefs is indeed when T^jms to da 

 the Plants are fitteft, either the Latter end of '^' 

 Atigiiji^ Beginning of Sepember, or AH the 

 Sepember Months as alfo the Month of March 

 or Beginning of Aprils are Times when Gar- 

 deners, without any Confideration of the 

 Moon, Wind, &c. (the exploded Tenets of 

 the Antients) go on in this Work. .The main 

 Point to be obferv'd is a right Guefs at fome 

 fucceeding Rains : Happy are thofe Planters 

 that have it : However, I cann't but recom- 

 mend the Autumn Planting as the beft ^ tho* 

 the Roots being young and of an herbacious 

 Nature, foon ftrike, and the Spring may do. 



There fecms to be no need to advife that all About Wa-^ 

 fmall Plants, aflbon as planted, ought to be ^^^^"^• 

 water *d, and fo continually kept in all dry 

 and fcorching Weather 5 and that Dung, 

 Straw, loofe Hay, and Grafs are very proper 

 to lay at the Foot of the Plant, in order to 

 keep the Earth moifl: 5 the Weeds ought to be 

 Ifept clean likewife from the Roots, they ha- 

 ving a double ill Eifed, inafmuch as they not 

 only rob the Roots of thofe nitrous and pro- 

 iifick Salts that lie latent in the Earth, but 

 likewife hinder the Rains, the other Co-effi- 

 cient in the great Work of Vegetation, from 

 defcending down to and refrelhing the labori- 

 ous Fibres in the Earth, bufily employed as 

 they are in the Work Nature has afligned 

 them. In fhort, whoever is negligent or idle 

 in his Care, will foon fee the ill Effed, as well 

 ,as fufFer the Reproach of having ftarv'd his 



Plants : 



