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New Principles of Gardening. 
Though tough with Age, they ftoop to your Command, 
Nor can the crooked Pruning-Knife withftand : 
And when the Trees thus cut revive again, 
When from their Wounds they borrow Courage, then 
Oft exercife your Power, and fo reftore 
Beauty to that which was deformd before. 
Youth unadvis'd doth in Defire exceed, 
And would without all Moderation breed. 
The Pruner’s Care muf? fuccour each Defedt ; 
He with his Knife their Vices muft correét ; 
Superfluous his Servants may reprefs ; 
Defiructive Pity makes them more increafe. 
But in what Part they muft be cut, and how- 
From the Experienced you will better know: 
Always untouch’d the chiefeft Branches fave, 
From whom you hope a future Race to have. 
Now if the Seafon proves reciprocal, 
You may behold your Fruit upon the Wall: 
Your Garden’s Riches then will make you glad; 
Nor think that any Thing can Colour add, 
Or Bignefs to them, but that Influence, 
AK bichon their Ranks kind Phoebus does difpenfe. 
Nature your Wifhes then will fatisfy 
Lf with thefe Methods only you eps 
And though we Ripene{s to our Fruits impart 
By Heat on Walls reflected, yet this Art, 
By the Reports of dark Antiquity, 
In the Records of Time is fet more bigh. 
Ravin, Lib. iv. Page 220. 
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