SHRUBS AND TREES. I97 



keep the fhrubs in any particular clumps to 

 dirtind heads, they fhould be pruned occa- 

 fionally to reduce any draggling or rambling 

 •Ihoots below find above, and clear out fuck- 

 l?rs from the roots. 



in the general culture of the pleafure- 

 -grounds and flower garden, fhrubberies, &c. 

 all the borders, beds, clumps, and other 

 compartments of flowers and ihrubbery plan- 

 ting, fhould be neatly cleared and digged 

 every Winter, or Spring, and the requilite 

 ibpplies of plants, roots, and feeds of flow- 

 ers, fhrubs, &-C. put in where wanted ; and 

 in Spring and Summer, all the compart- 

 ments kept in the neatefl: order by hoeing 

 and raking the borders, beds, clumps, and 

 all fhrubbery diftii(fls, the flowers, and other 

 'plants kept in fomewhat regular growth by 

 occafionally cutting and reducing the irregu- 

 •larities, and to give fupport of flakes to tall 

 or long feeble, and all climbing plants, the 

 edgings of box, S:c. and hedges regularly 

 clipped every Summer ; the gravel walks 

 kept always clean from weeds and litter, and 

 rolled every week, efpecially in Summer ; 

 ilnd In Spring, the gravel, where it admits, 

 fliould be turned and frelh laid, or where 

 they do not admit of turning, fhould be 

 'fcufBed with a Dutch hoe, or loofened, and 

 levelled regularly, raked and we'll rolled ; and 

 "ihe grafs lawns and walks fhould be kept clofe 

 mowed in Spring, and Summer, occaiionally 

 -pnied to Tcatter worm caft earth boih in Win- 

 ;€r, and when neveiTary, aiid be frequently 

 S 3 rolled, 



