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New Principles of Gardening. 
I. In order to obtain good Walnuts, I advife, that you make 
Choice of the very beft you can find, both for Goodnefs of 
Kernels and Thinuefs of Shell. 
The Mother-Tree being pitch’d on, gather its Nuts when 
they areobferved to fall from the Tree, and lay them by till their 
Green Husks cracks ; at which Time peel them off, and dry them 
in aconvenient Place, keeping them turn’d every Day, and 
be fure that no Water comes near them at any Time, for that 
will deftroy the Kernel. Your Nuts being dry’d, put them into 
a Bed ot moift Sand placed in the Green-Houfe, Tool-Hou/e, 6c. 
where wo Wet cancome to them. | he 
About the Beginning of Fanuary, if the Weather be open, oi/fen 
the Sand moderately, which will caufe them to prepare themfelves 
for planting in the Beginning of February, at which Time they 
areto be placed in good frefh Land that. is wor hot and dry, at 
the {quare Diftance of fix Inches,andabout three Inches in Depth. 
"Tis the Practice of many to plant or fow them intheir Husks, 
and to foak or fteep them in Water; which Ican no wife com- 
mend; for, to my Lofs, I have had the Experience. 
~ During all the firft and fecond Years (for fo long they muft re- 
main in the Seed-Bed) keep them very clean from Weeds, and 
in very dry Seafons let them have moderate Waterings ; ’twill 
greatly advance their Growth. 
At the End of two Years take them out of the Seed-Bed, and 
prune of all Zap or Dowwnright Roots and Side Branchess. but 
uever touch the leading Shoot ; then plant them out in the Warfe- 
vy in Rows at three Foot apart, and the Plants in the Rows, at 
eighteen Inches afunder, keeping them clear from Weeds, and 
digg’d every Winter, to keep the Ground mellow, and let the 
Winter’s Rains to their Roots. When your Trees are got to be 
five or fix Foot high, they may. be svaculated with any Kind 
you approve off, which will caufe them to bear much fooner. 
When you plant a Wa/nut-Tree, obferve to prune the End of 
every Root, to cut away all as are inclinable to grow downwards, 
‘to place every Root as near a Horizontal Pofition as you can, 
and as fhallow as conveniently.may be; for ’tis the want of 
Horizontal Roots as occafions their long Growth before they bear 
Fruit ; and that you prune off all Side Branches, but never prune 
or top the Head or leading Shoots. And the fame muft . — 
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