. New Principles: of Gardening. 
SECT): XXL 
Of Medlars. 
AMP EDLARS are a pleafant Fruit, whereof there are 
feveral Kinds, viz. the Common Enghifb, a {mall 
Fruit; the Dutch Medlar, a large Fruit, anda good 
‘Bearer; and the Neopolitan Medlar, a Fruit without Stones, 
very plentiful in J¢a/y, and but a Stranger to our Englifh 
Climate. They in general love a rich Soil, and are propagated 
by being either grafted on the White or Hawthorn in March, 
or inarch’d in May, or budded im Fuly. 
ern CES MXIT: 
Of the Service-Tree. 
HE Service makes a glorious Tree, and is very 
beautiful when planted in Walks; they produce fine 
Clufters of Fruit in September and Oéfober, which, 
when ripe, are as if they were rotten, though not fo. “This 
Tree is propagated by Suckers or Seed. If you increafe them 
by Seed, when the Fruit is ripe rub off the Pulp, by rolling 
them in Sand; after which dry the Stones or Seed in the Suz 
or 4ir, and put them into Sand, as dire&ted for the Walnut, 
and in Fanuary fow them in a moift Border, covering the Seed 
about two Inches thick with fine Earth. , 
When they have been two Years in the Seed-Bed, tranfplant 
them into a Nurfery, (as the Walnut,) always minding keep | 
them clean from Weeds; and if your Border has an aft Ex- 
pofition, tis much better than to be . fully expos’d to the ss 
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