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New Principles of Gardening. 
Whofe different Notes and Murmurs fill the Air: 
Thither fad Philomela wll repair , 
Once to ber Sijer {be complain'd, but now 
She warbles forth her Grief on ev'ry Bough, 
Fills all with Teveus Crimes, her own hard Fate, 
And makes the melting Rocks, compaffonate. 
Difiurb not Birds which on your Trees abide, 
By them the Will of Heav’n ts fignified : 
How oft from hollow Oaks the boading Crow, 
The Winds and future Tempefts do forebow. 
Of thefe the wary Ploughmen fhould make ufe ; 
Hence Obfervations of his own deduce, 
And fo the Changes of the Weather tell, 
But from your Groves all hurtful Birds expel. 
The riper Cherries are, when gather’d, the founder are the 
Kernels; and if they are fown as betore dire€ted, they wiil come 
up in the following Spring. But if they lie long out of Sand, 
6c. to be very dry, after the Pulp 1s taken off, they will not 
come up till the fecond Spring, and fometimes never. 
The Fruit is ripe in Fw#/y, and in many Places they are very 
large, and of an excellent fine Tafte. 
The Tree is naturally ofa very large Growth: And Mr. Cook, 
in his Treatife of Foref? Trees, tells us, that at Ca/biobury, he 
meafured the Height of one Black-Cherry-Tree, and found it 
to be eighty five Foot, five Inches. 
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