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vmd dry, ibme Sorts of Summer 

 Peirs will do pretty well on fuch 

 an Expoliire, and will continue 

 lon<Ter in eating, than if they were 

 more expos'd to the Sun. But you 

 fhould by no means plant Winter 

 Pears in fuch an Afpeft, as hath 

 been pracSlis'd by many ignorant 

 Peribns 5 fince v/e find, that the 

 Ic.l South Walls, in ipme Years, 

 are barely warm enough to ripen 

 thofe I'Vuits. 



NUMMULARIA ; Money-wort, 

 ir Herb Two-pence. 



This Plant grows wild in fhady 

 moift Places m divers Parts of 

 EngUnd: But as it is feldom culti- 

 vated in Gardens, fo i Ihall fay no- 

 thing of its Culture in this Place. 



NURSERY i There is no fuch 

 thing as having a fine Garden or 

 Plantation, without a Nurfery both 

 for Trees and Flowers, in which 

 there are continually new Varieties 

 of Fruits y Tim6er, or Flowering Trees y 

 and choice Flowers y rais'd for a Sup- 

 ply of the fcveral Parts of t\\cGa.r- 

 den, Orchard, and WfUlerncfs. The 

 Size of this Nurjery muft be pro- 

 portion'd to the Extent .of your 

 Garden, or defign'd Plantation ^ ib 

 that it is impoflible to be exadt in 

 determining the Quantity of Ground 

 Fieccllary to be empioy'd in this Way. 

 But for a Nurfery of .Fruit, Foreji, or 

 Flowering Trees, there fhould not be 

 lels than two or three Acres for a 

 large Garden i but for a fmall Gar- 

 den half an Acre will be fjfficient. 

 And for a Nurjery for Flower-RootSy 

 slants, Sec. one Acre for a large 

 Garden, and a Quarter of an Acre 

 for a fmall one, will be enough. 

 But this (as I faid before) cannot 

 be well limited j iince fome Perfons, 

 who are very curious in railing vaft 

 Quantities ot new Flowers from 

 S,^d, will tmploy more than three 

 times th^ Ground that is necelfary 



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only to ral/e a Supply of Flowers 

 for their Borders, which are cither 

 annual, or biennial, and require to 

 be brought up to fupply the Place 

 oi fuch as have flower'd and decay'd. 

 But I fliaU firft take Notice of the 

 Method for railing a JV«r/ery oi' Fruit 

 or Forcji Trees: In doing of which, 

 you fhould obiervc, 



1. That the Soil in which you 

 make the Nurferyy be not better 

 than that where the Trees are to be 

 planted out for good : The not ob- 

 ferving this, is the Reafon that 

 Trees are often at a Stand, or make 

 but little Progrefs, for three or tour 

 Years, after they come from the 

 Nurfery^ as it commonly happens 

 to fuch Trees as are rais'd near 

 London, and carry'd into the Nor- 

 thern Parts of England, where being 

 planted in a poor Soil, and a much 

 colder Situation, their Fruits fel- 

 dom ripen well : Therefore it is by 

 far the better Method (when yon 

 have obtained the Sorts you would 

 propagate) to raife a Nurjery of the 

 feverai Sorts of Stocks proper for 

 the various Kinds of Fruit upon 

 which you may hud or graft them,- 

 and thoie Trees which are thus 

 rais'd upon the Soil, and in the fame 

 Degree of Warmth where they are 

 to be planted, will fucceed much 

 better than thofe brought from a 

 greater Di fiance, and from a richer 

 Soil. 



2 . This Ground ought to be frcfh, 

 and not fuch as has been already 

 worn out by Trees, or other large- 

 growing Plants i for in fuch Soil 

 your Stocks will not make any 

 Progrefs. 



3 . It ought not to be too wet, 

 nor over-dry, but rather of a 

 middling Nature J thp', of the two 

 Extremes, dry is to be prcfcrr'd ; 

 Becaufe in fuch Soils (tho' the Trees 

 do not make fo great a Progrefs as 



