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New Principles of Gardening. 
Your Fruit being thus plac’d, cover it up very clofe with clean 
Wheat-Straw, as is not in the leaft mufty, c. which will 
caufe the Fruit to be the fame; as alfo ftop all Chinks, Holes, 
Sc. to keep the external Air entirely out. 
When hard Frofts happen, you muft be very careful to keep 
-out the Froft, and to cover clofe all your Fruit in general. 
In fhort, the clofer and warmer your Fruit is kept, the lon- 
ger “twill keep, and the better ’twill be. 
N. B. That oftentimes Fruit is deftroyed by Mice, Rats, 
&c. therefore guard againft thofe Vermin by Traps, Cats, &c. 
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ate oat Cine Nites, ©. 5 5 
Of the Planting Fruit-Gardens m a move 
grand and delightful Manner than has been 
done before. | a. 
Having in the preceding Sections fully demonftrated the 
@ Management of Fruits in-general, I fhall now proceed to 
inform you how to lay out and plant a Fruit-Garden, in 
a more delightful and advantageous Manner than has been 
practifed, or perhaps thought on by any. 
~The Form which I here offer is a Paralellogram, whofe 
Dimenfions are twenty Pole by fix Pole, and its Quantity 
-one a and twenty Rods, or three Quarters of an Acre 
exactly. 
AndasI before have plainly demonftrated that a South or South- 
Eaft Wall is of all others the very beft, therefore to that End I 
have placed the Wall PQ, within the Bounds of my Plan, 
whereby I receive the Benefit of the South-Side, as alfo 
‘the like of the Wall DE, for the Advantage of its North-Sideé. 
The Difpofition of the Whole is as following, viz. 
I. The Line A B fituated at the Parallel Diftance of twelve 
Foot, from the North-Side of the Wall DE, is compofed of 
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