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defigned for the farmer (not the gardener) 

 who is fuppofed not yet to have come to 

 a perfect knowledge of managing plants 

 of this kind. 



IF the feafon is very dry when the 

 young plants are planted out, they mould 

 have a good watering in the evening or 

 morning after planting ; but if ever fo 

 dry mould have no more. It is much bet- 

 ter for them to be ftifFand fhort, both fof 

 franding the. winter and planting out in the 

 fpring, than thofe that are flufti, tall, and 

 tender, which watering or a wet feafoa 

 makes them. 



THE ground which the young plants are 

 pricked out in to ftand the winter, mould 

 be a good natural foil, not made rich with 

 dung ; for then the plants grow too fair, 

 and are fo thick that they are drawn ; and 

 if it comes a hard winter they are in dan- 

 ger of bejng loft. 



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