Instructions for Pruning, Budding, &rc. xxl 



and fuch as have a foft wood may be performed in the 

 common way ; but fuch as are of a firm texture and flow 

 growth, bv approach. 



It is to this invention, we are indebted for the num- 

 ber of foreign trees, of the fouthern climates ; for, by 

 budding and grafting them on more hardy flocks, we 

 have, in a manner, naturaliz^ed them to our clime. Thefe 

 cions which have been grafted on the different trees, do 

 not become one body with them, but as it were, ftrike 

 root in their flocks, and are fo furniflied with fibres, as to 

 convey to themfelves their nourifliment, but in a ftate 

 more pure, than if they drew their fupport from the 

 earth; this accounts for the cions retaining the nature 

 and qualities of the trees from which they are taken. To 

 this pra8;ice it is faid mankind was led by a bird dif- 

 charging the feed of a tree into the trunk of another, 

 where it received a moifture and other fuflenance fuita- 

 ble to its growth ; it became a tree, and of a difl'erent 

 fpecies. This the working mind oF Man improved on. 



Gravel -, the ufe of this for walks of gardens makes 

 it neceflary to give fome dire6lions for that purpole. This 

 work is to be begun in March; and wt.en the gravel is 

 of fuch a quality as will not bind, take to one load of 

 flrorg loam, two or three of gravel, to be well mixed 

 and molflened for ufe : In making of a walk five feet 

 wide, one inch is fufficient for it to rife in the centre, 

 and a walk of ten feet is to rife two inches; this will 

 give tlie rain a fufiicicnt fall. Six or eight inches depth 

 of gravel may do for the covering of a walk, but a foot 

 is fufficient, and you are to obferve that according to the 

 foil of your walk, you are to prelerve it for coating, 

 which is generally by firft putting down a good Inyer of 

 rough ftones. The level of the ground muft be well 

 confidered, before you begin to make your walks, in or- 

 der to give them that defccnt which will befl carry off 

 the water ; and when the foil is remarkably wet, land 

 drains are neceffary. To deflroy worms, which are very 

 prejudicial to gravelled and grafs walks, kt them be well 

 watered, in which water walnut leaves have been fleep- 

 ed, this will force them out, fo that you may with eafe 

 kill them ; but the befl provifion againff this evil, is firfl 

 to lay down a good coat of lime rubbifli ; and in oriier 



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