AMERICAN GARDENER. lor 



Aviil add this fact, that Mr. MISSING, a Barrister, 

 living in the Parish of Tichfield, in Hampshire, 

 in England, and who was a most excellent and 

 kind neighbor of mine, has a border under a 

 south wall, on which he and his father before him, 

 have grown early fieas, every year, for more than 

 forty years ; and, if, at any time, they had been 

 finer than they were every one year of" the four or 

 five years that I saw them, they must have beeR 

 something very extraordinary ; for, in those years 

 (the last four or five of the more than forty) they 

 were as fine, and as full bearing, as a*iy that I 

 ever saw in England. 



189. Before I entirely quitted the subject of 

 Cultivation, there would be a few remarks to be 

 made upon the means $>f preventing the depreda- 

 tions of -vermin, some of which make their attacks 

 on the seed, others on the roots, others on the 

 stem, others on the leaves and blossoms, and 

 others on the fruit ; but, as 1 shall have to be 

 very particular on this subject in speaking of 

 fruits, I defer it till I come to the Chapter oft 



Fruits. 



190. Having now treated of the Situation, Soil, 

 Fencing, and Laying out of gardens; on the ma- 

 king and managing of Hot-Beds and Green- Hous- 

 es; and having given some directions w- to pro- 

 pagation aod cultivation in general, I next pro- 

 ceed to give Alphabetical Lists of the several sorts 

 of plants, and to speak of the proper treatment 

 for each, under the three heads, Vegetables and 

 Herbs; fruits; and Flowers. 



