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have good Properties : Thefe {hould 

 be, it pofTible, feparated from all 

 ordinary Flowers, for if they (land 

 fiirrounded with plain - colour'd 

 Flowers, they will impregnate e^^ch 

 other, whereby the Seeds of the 

 valuable Flowers will not be near 

 £o good, as it the Plants had been 

 in a feparate Border where no ordi- 

 nary Flowers grew j therefore the 

 beft Way is to take out the Roots 

 of fuch as you do not efteem, fo 

 foon as the Flowers open, and plant 

 them in another Place, that there 

 may be none left in the Border, 

 bur fuch as you would chufe for 

 Seeds. 



The Flowers of thefe fliould not 

 be gathered, except fuch as are pro- 

 duced fingly upon Pedicles, leaving 

 all fuch as grow in large Bunches j 

 and if the Seafbn fliould prove dry, 

 you muft now and then refrelh 

 them with Water, which will 

 caufe their Sseds to be larger and 

 in greater Quantity, thin if they 

 "were intirely negledted. Towards 

 the latter End of M^^ the Seed will 

 be ripe, which may be ealily 

 known by the Pods changing 

 brown and openings fo that you 

 fhould at that Time look over it 

 three times a Week, gathering 

 each time fuch of it as is ripe, 

 which lliould be laid upon a Paper 

 to dry, and may then be put up 

 until the Seafon of fowing, 



PRIMROSE-TREE j 'vUe 

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PRIVET i vile Ligudrum. 

 ' PRUNING OF TREES : 

 There is not any Part of Gardening, 

 which is of more general U(c than 

 that of }*nining j and yet it is very 

 rare to fee Fruit-Trees skiltully 

 m^nag'd ; aim oft ever^' Gardener 

 will pretend to be a MjLil:cr of this 

 Bufm-'fs, though tbi;re are but few 

 who ri^hrlv underiland it i nor is 



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it to be learn'd by Rote, but re- 

 quires a flridl Obfervation of the 

 different manners of Growth of the 

 feveral Sorts of Fruit Trees j fome 

 requiring to be manag'd one way, 

 and others muft be treated in a 

 quite different Method, which is 

 only to be known from carefully 

 oMerving how each Kind is na- 

 turally dilpos'd to produce its Fruit : 

 For ibme Sorts do produce their 

 Fruit on the fame Year's Wood, as 

 Vines \ others produce their Fruit, 

 for the moft part, upon the former 

 Year's Wood, as Peaches, Ne^a- 

 rines, &c. and others upon Curfoas 

 or Spurs, which are produced upon 

 Wood of three, four, or five Years 

 old, as Vlumbsy 1-ears, Cherries, 6cc. 

 therefore in order to the right 

 Management of Fru it-Trees, there 

 fhould always be Provifion made 

 to have a fufficient Quantity of 

 bearing Wood, in every Part of 

 the Trees, and at the fame Time, 

 there fhould not be a Superfluity of 

 ufelefs Branches, which would ex- 

 haufl the Strength of the Trees, 

 and caufe them to decay in a few 

 Years. 



The Reafbns which have been 

 laid down for Vnming of Fruit- 

 Trees, are as follow j Firft, to pre- 

 ferve Trees longer in a vigorous 

 bearing State ; the fecond is, to 

 render the Trees more beautiful to 

 the Eye^ and thirdly, to caufe the 

 Fruit to be larger and better tailed. 



I. It preferves a Tree longer in 

 a healthy bearing State, by FruniKg 

 off all fuperflaous Branches, where- 

 by^therc are no more left upon the 

 Tree than is nccefliry, or t\vix the 

 Roots can nourifh kindly,- {<:> that 

 the Root is not exhaufted in fup- 

 p'ying ufelefs Branches, which mull 

 af-terwards be cut our, and thereby 

 confequently much of the Sap cx= 

 pended to no Purpofet 



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