New Principles of Gardening. 
ceived their full Growth ; and the Soil as they will thrive in, 
is poor, fandy, dry, or cold Lands, &c. but when better, ’tis 
better {till. 
When they have feen three Years over their Heads, in Fanua- 
ry cut them down, leaving about fix or eight Inches above 
Ground; and the Spring following they will break out into di- 
vers Shoots, which in five Years, or thereabouts, will be fit to 
make Hurdies, ©c. or if let growing until eight or nine Years, 
will make fine Hop-Poles, Hoops, Fire-Wood, &c. 
I cannot but recommend thofe propagated from Seed, before 
thofe from Suckers, being fown as atorefaid, kept clean from 
Weeds, and kept at the Diftance trom one another of about 
three or four Foot. 
But if you plant Suckers, the proper Time for that Work is 
Odfober, at which Time you muft prune them down as before 
dire€ted, vzz. within fix or eight Inches of the Ground. 
N. B. That as this Plant may be eafily propagated by Lay- 
ers, laid down from the Mother-Plant, or Stool, as Elms, 
mes, Sc. *tis more fafer to plant the Layers as are well root- 
ed, which one Year will perform, than to run the Hazard of 
planting Suckers, which often fail. 
Hafle di/pers’d in any Place will live = 
In ftony Grounds Wild Ath, and Cornel thrive; 
In more abrupt Receffes thefe we find, 
Spontancoufly expos'd to Rain and Wind. . 
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