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New Principles of Gardening. 
half.an Inch, nor more than an Inch Diameter ; for when they 
are lefs than half an Inch, they are very weak, and have 
too much Pith for their Bignefs, which oftentimes take wet and 
kill the Cutting; and when they are larger than one Inch °tis 
long a healing over at top, and therefore Jonger expofed to the 
wet lying thereon; therefore at fuch Times ’tis beft to put a little 
Wax on the Cut. That their Length be about three Foot, of 
which one third to be above Ground. 
When you plant Willows, Sc. for tomake Pollards, they may 
be of a greater Size, as nine, ten, or twelve Foot long ; but the 
preceeding is beft for Hedges, Wood, ©c. The beft Seafon for 
planting them, is O¢fover, and inthe planting obferve, that you 
don’t ftrip up the Bark at bottom, that the Bottom is not fplit 
or fhaken by cutting, as alfo the Top, and that the Earth be well 
clofed about it, and kept water’d the firft Summer. 
Others uo Roots require, the Lab’vor cuts 
Young Slips, and in the Sotl fecurely puts. | 
3 : OS DRYDEN: 
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And then again, 
Some Trees their Birth to bounteous Nature owe, 
- For fome without the Pains of Planting grow : 
With Ozsers thus the Banks of Brooks abound, 
Sprung from the watry Genius of the Ground. 
yom the fame Principles green Willows come, 
Herculean Poplar, and the tender Broom. | 
DRYDEN. 
Secondly, Of raifing Trees from Seed. 
Wherein obferve that the Seed be not gather’d too foon be- 
fore it has got its full Maturity, which will caufe it to fhrink; 
or tco Jate, when it has fuftain’d Damage by Rain, Froft, ce. 
Therefore when it appears dryifh and pretty hard, it may be 
fafely gather’d; and be fure to preferve it from wet, till tis fow7d, 
for that will caufeit to mould and rot. Their be divers Kinds 
of Seeds, as will not come up after fowing till the fecond Spring, 
as Yew-Berries, Holy-Berries, Afben-Keys, Hornbeam, f bite- 
horns 
