The FrRu1T-GarRveEN IIluftrated. 
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Liberty of imbibing Moifture fufficient: for the Support of che then’ re- 
duced Plant... The Confideration hereof I recommend to the fetious 
Confideration of myBrother-Gardeners,and indeed to all others concertied 
in the. Planting of Fruit and Foreft-Trees, which are very often loft for 
want of Judgment herein. 
THE great Want of this Difcovery has caufed ‘the Death of many 
Thoufand valuable Plants, ‘that have died -by being -unskilfully: pruned 
at their Time of Planting, .For Gardeners have but one Rule ot Me- 
thod for pruning the Roots of all Kinds of Plants, and even tharthey can 
give no manner of Reafon for: For was’any, one of them. to be ask’d 
fuch a Queftion,. their Anfwer would be, “ Why I know it to be fo, my 
“ Father or Mafter did always ule to prune in, this Manner, | sand their 
“ Trees feldom died, and I my felf have practis'd the fame, as taught by 
“ them, with good Succefs ; I know it by Experience, which is the beft 
| Mafter:” And foon, without confidering the gréat Demand of Noutifh- 
ment that Nature makes in one Kind of Vegetable more than another, 
according to their different Growths, which caufe.as; great a Difference in 
the Manner of pruning their Roots... ... iq 
swiS, for Example... aif vty: 
em eR NET ee 
LT is obferv’d, that the Cabbage (whic Pia Vegdebleoker cack 
Growth above Ground) draws its Sap.with a very great Force, (its 
Roots being naturally but few, when compar'd with Vegetables, whofe 
Roots are much more, as Dutch Box, and Growth much flower) : So 
that from hence it appears, That Plants of a quick Growth and ftrong 
imbibing Nature, fhould have as much Root allow’d them, at Planting, 
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~~ . MADE a fecond Experiment in the like mannet‘on a Batterfea 
Cabbage, that was about half grown, and found that the Surface of ‘its 
Leaves exceeded the Surface of the Roots near twelve times 5 fo that the 
Roots did imbibe Moifture with near twelve times the Velocity that the 
Leaves perfpir'd it away. And were that Cabbage-Plant to have been planted 
again, the Leaves of the Head muft have béen proportionably reduc’d, 
as 
