THE SCOTS GARDENER 



interval one way, and half a foot the other; and the 

 next year after they rise, make a spade-bit trench 

 between the rowes, and work it cautiously, till you 

 discover the running down root at one side, which 

 you must top, with the pruning knife, and level in 

 the earth as it was. Cut off some side boughes, and 

 thin the head ; let them remain two years, then 

 remove and plant them, as is instructed. 



Greens that are best worthy our esteem, are Scots- 

 firr for standards, holly for hedges, the cherrie-bay 

 for north aspect walls, or barren creeping ivy, which 

 will neither blast nor seek supporting. 



There is strawberrie tree, and tree-nightshade, 

 which are tender. But 



Indian and Spanish- jasmines, mirtles, oleanders, 

 and orenge-trees are yet tenderer ; wherefore, I am 

 not very curious of them ; yet there are severals 

 in this countrey who have them, and are at great 

 pains in governing them, by setting them in cases, 

 with small stones, at the bottome filled with earth, 

 as those mentioned for fine plants in Chap. II. 

 Housing them in winter, between the latter end of 

 September and beginning of May, giving them fresh 

 earth as they retire, and expose them, i.e. take out 

 the upper exhausted earth, stirring that below with 



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