New Principles of Gardening. 
encouraged, and thrive thereby. .N. B. The Sorts of Kernels 
to be fown, are the Crab, Apple, Pear, Cherry, and Filbert : 
The others, as Peach-Stones, Almonds, Apricots, Plumbs, Wall- 
nuts,and Chefnuts, mutt befown or dropp’d in Drz//s made with 
a Hough, about four or five Inches in Depth, and about two 
Foot and half .afunder: The Kerne/s muft be placed in the 
Drills, at the Diftance of wine or.ten Inches afunder, becaufe 
they will not be removed before they are made Trees by bud- 
ding or grafting. Thete Kernels delight in a Light rich Land, 
and love to be clear of Weeds, and kept mozff by Wateringsin 
very ary Seafons. | 
In Autumn when the Seedlings has done growing, trench 
a Piece of fre(b mellow Land, and therein plant all the largeft, 
leaving the weak ones till the next Autumn.—” 
The Rows you plant them in muft be two Foot and a half 
afunder, and the Stocks Diftance in the Line, about one Foot. 
You mutt alfo obferve, to prune of the Zap-Root of every 
Plant, andthereby they will have good Reots in Plenty, which 
otherwife would be but one, and that very bad for tranfplant- _ 
ing. When your Plantation has feen two or three Years, and 
the Plants arrived to the Bignefs of a Man’s Thumb towards 
their Bottom, you may begin to.graft or znoculate them with 
fuch Fraits as you think beft, which being grown a Year or 
two after their Inoculation or Grafting, will be fit to tranf{- 
plancagainft any Vall, Efpallier, &c. Perhaps it may be expec- 
ted that I fhould, according to the vulgar Way, defcribe and 
explain the Method of graftimg and inoculating Fruit-Trees ; 
but knowing that ’tis familiar with every Gardener, and is what 
cannot be well underftood by bare Theory only, without the 
Praétice, therefore I advife every one as is a Lover of Curio/i- 
ties in Art and Nature, and is defirous to well underftand thofe 
two Philofiphical Entertainments, to be boy! informed therein 
‘by the Help of fome Nur/fery-Man or Gardener at the proper 
Seafons for thofe Works, of which I fhall now deliver every 
ufeful Obfervation to be made therein. 
_ Firft, in Grafting, which is performed four feveral Ways, 
viz. (1.) Whip-Grafting, generally ufed on {mall Stocks for 
Cherries, Pears, Apricots, &c. (2.) Stock-Grafiig, uled in 
grafting Apples on Crabs, or Pears on Quinces, or any other 
Fruit, whofe Stocks are large. (3.) Rind-Grafiing, wed for “a 
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