New Principles of Gardening. 
Oax in black fat clayey, moift clayey, craggy, dry, rich, 
flinty Gravel, with Loam or Mould, and moift gravelly Lands, 
but not in a hungry Gravel. 
Pine the fame as Fir. | 
Porcar on fome dry, barren, chalky, dry and poor Lands. 
~ SALLow in moiit Clay, dry and poor Land. 
WatnuT in chalky, dry and poor, dry and rich Lands, or 
in Gravel mix’d with Loam. 
Witxow in boggy, drain’d, moift clayey, and moift gravelly 
Lands. | 
Yew in dry barren Soils, and thofe as are very rich alfo, 
efpecially a rich fandy Loam. 
N. &. That although many of the above mention’d will grow 
and thrive in many poor and barren Lands, yet you are to 
underftand that almoft all forts of Foreft-Trees are much im- 
proved by a frefh fat Soil, or what we call a rich fandy Loam, 
if not mix’d with Dung, except ’tis well confum’d. | 
Theretore a'ways beware of frefh Dung coming near the Root 
of any Tree, for ’tis perfect poifon, and oftentimes prefent 
Death. | 
N. &. That Trees intended for flinty Lands, are beft raifed 
by their Seed fown therein, fuch as Oak, Ath, Beech, &c. 
N. &. That Poplar will not thrive in chalky Ground; Abeals 
not on Clay; Willows not on dry poor Soils; Elm not on dry 
fandy hot Lands; Oak, Elm, Walnut, and Afh, not on a hungry 
Gravel; and none of the Aquaticks on any kind of Gravel, ex- 
cept that as is very moift. | 
N. B. That clayey Land produces the tougheft Oak; and that 
in very ftrong Clay few Trees will live. | 
Thaving now explain’d by what Methods Trees are raifed, 
and the feveral Soils they delight in, I fhall in the aext place 
lay down Rules and Dire¢tions to be obfervd in the feveral ope- 
rations thereof. | ! 
Firfl, Of raifing Trees from Cuttings. 
Trees rais\d by Cuttings are the Alder, Poplars, Willows, 
©c. wherein obferve that the Ground wherein you plant them 
be of a moift Nature; that you take your Cuttings from the 
moft healthy Branches; that their Thicknefs be not lefs rar 
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