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New Principles of Gardening. 
_found to be the very beft Way, they are of no Ufe: Neither 
do Dews or Raims always fall perpendicular, (tho’ ’tis their 
natural Courfe fo to do;) for by the Situation of Winds are 
obliged, when they blow, which is almoft always, to fteer fuch 
Courtes as they direé&t, and thereby affe the Wall-Fruit zx an 
Oblique, and not a perpendicular Pofition always, as fuppofed. 
And befides, “tis evident, that although Dews are prejudicial when frozen 
02 Trees in the Spring, yet when the Frofts are gone, they are avery great 
Nourifhment to Fruits ; and as Mr. Lawrence did but only receive a Hint 
of thofe Horizontal Shelters from an ingenious Gentleman, of or near Chel- 
fea, who firft mentioned them to him, wis Something very odd, that the 
Prattice thereof fhould be recommended before it had been proved. 
XU. ’Tis too often feen that many Fruit-Trees are planted 
ina Soil as they do not delight in; ‘therefore at fuch Times 
obferve what Fruits do agree beft with fuch a Soil, and con- 
vert your Tree to the fame by Grafting, Inoculation, 8c. 
XIV. There is nothing fo much adds to, or Subfiratts from, 
the Goodnefs of Fruit, as the Goodue/s or Baduefs of Soils. 
XV. Hot and dry Summers caules Fruit to ripen before its - 
natural Seafon, and wet and cold Summers the contrary ; there- 
ore when Fruits have not their natural Seafons, they cannot 
have their true rich Taftes. | 
XVI. A dry Summer caufes Trees to bear Plenty of Fruit 
the fucceeding Year, and a wet Summer caufes a great Produc- 
tion of Wood, and but little Fruit. | : 
XVI. When a Tree grows crooked, or inclining down- 
wards, cut or fcore the Bark horizontally in divers Places in 
the confined or hollow Part of the Tree, and in a fhort Time, 
if the Tree be young, ’twill become freight, and grow up- 
right. 
XVIII. To prevent tempeftuous Winds from injuring new — 
or old Plantations of Fruit-Trees, you muft plant fubftantial 
and lofty Efpalier Trees and Hedges, on the Wei and North 
Parts of your Gardens. ait 
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