3° 
New Principles of Gardening. 
Chufe a rich Soil when you intend to plant, 
Not that which heavy Sand has render’d faint. 
Avoid low Vales, which lie between clofe Hills, 
Which fome thick Pool with noifome Vapours fills ; 
Where pithy Mitts, and hurtful Steams a/cend, 
Leaft an ill Tafte they to your Fruit may lend. 
Learn that Pavoid, where deep in barren Clay 
The /peckled Euts their yellow Bellies fay ; 
Where burning Sand the upper Hand obtains, 
Or where ‘wird Chalk anjruitful Gravel reigns : 
And left th’ external Rednefs of the Soil 
Deceive your Labours, and defpife your Toil, 
Deeply beneath the Furrows thruft your Spade $ 
Outward Appearance many hath betrayed. 
Larth under the green Sward may be kites 
To a rough Sand, or burning Clay difpofed. ~~ 
Still fly that Place where Aufter always blows, 
And for your Trees that Situation chufe, 
Where m the open Air, on a Deftent, 
Zo blefs their Growth, more gentle Winds confent. 
Rapin, Book iv. Page 179. 
Soils being different in Contexture, Colour, or Site, I 
have reduced them into three Sorts, vzz. As, Firft, Light, San- 
dy, and Gravel: Secondly, Melhw, Loam, and Brick-Earth- 
And, laftly, Seif; Cold Land, and Clay. 
The Manures proper for thofe feveral Kinds of Soils are 
as follow: Firft, Fora lofé fandy Soil take of Mud, fcoured 
out of Ponds, &c. and of firong Loam an equal Quantity ; 
to which add a third Part of good For fe-Dung, well mix’d 
together, and it will make an excellent Compoft for fandy 
or ight Land. All Compofts may be made in any Quantity ; 
fo that the Proportion of the Quantities of each Sort is care. 
fully obferved, and well mix’d. 
hen that you have mix’d a firfficient Quantity, caft it into 
the Form of a Leffa/, and let it be turned three or four 
Times in the Year, and always kept clean from Weeds; for 
they exhauft the vital Parts thereof, and at the End of one 
Year twill be fit for Ufe. If to one Rod of Ground be 
allowed 
