a ee ee a ee TT ee en er eee 
al 
ania 
The RR ERA GB. . 
XL 
IT is alfo a very great Miftake in Gentlemen, who Lett their Gardens 
to be kept by the Year, to Undertakers, who generally Lett them again 
to Gardeners under them, at fuch very low Rates, that, to fave them-— 
elves, they ave forc'd to flight and hurry over every Part in the very 
wort Manner, to the great Prejudice of well-planted Gardens. 
AT Twickenham, in the County of Middlefex, is an Inftance of this 
Kind, where it unhappily falls out, that the very beft Garden of that 
County, nay, I may juftly fay the only one in England ; for fuch another 
curious Colleétion of valuable Fruits is not be found in one Garden in 
this Kingdom ; is made a Sacrifice thereby : And I am credibly inform d 
by a Labouter thereof, that the Gardener. who now has the Care of it, 
under the Undertaker, attempted, the Loft | Winter, to lett the Pruning 
and Nailing of thofé moft valuable Wall-Fruits to the Labourers, at 
L. lk eal ee Rod. 
I MUST confe fi that I was Cewd to hear it, for finer Trees are 
mot in England ; and the Price being fo very finall, the Labourers could 
not undertake the Work, and thereby they eftaped, in Part, the Fury of 
oe unskilful Knife. However, to difpatch them in as expeditious a 
Manner as po ble, the yore’ were ft to Work by the Day, and 
efi 1 i 0 ther OPS “Difcres the ey knenw sepetie f the Matter, any 
more than making Fucoth Walls, Tay they fucceede not knowing 
the Bloffom-Buds from the Leaf-Buds, they cut away the greateft Part 
of the Fruits : So that during this Manner of Keeping, there bas been 
very few, or fcarcely any Fruits in the whole Garden, notwithftanding 
that it confifts of upwards of Twenty Acres, and did feldom or never 
fail of being very fruitful before. 
IF I may may be permitted to give my Opinion, with Relation to the 
Pruning of Fruit-Trees in large Gardens, I humbly conceive that their 
Pruning is the divett Bufinefs of the Head Gardener bimfelf, and no 
other Perfon whatfoever, excepting that any of his Underlings have been 
avell in firutted therein, who may then, under bis Eye, perform a Part 
thereof. For one experienc'd Pruner will perform more Work in one 
Seafon, than any Nobleman or Gentleman's Table can require: and theres 
fore when unskilful People (as aforefaid) are employ'd in fuch hess either 
be} by 
