New Principles of Gardening. 
when promifcuoufly planted in a Wilderne/s, Grove, Sc. The 
Norway Fir is an excellent fine Plant for to make Hedges, it 
being a very clofe thick Grower, and of a beautiful Green: And 
the only Nurfery, that I know of, as has this ‘Tree, with all other 
Ever-Greens, Fruit and Foreft-Trees, Flowering Shrubs, &c. 
in their beft Perfection, is that of the ingenious Mr. Peter Ma- 
fon, Nurfery-Man at Ifleworth in the County of Middlefex, 
who I dare to affirm, has one of the beft Collection of Enghib 
Fruits of any Nurfery-Man in Hagland; and on whom every 
Gentleman may fafely depend of having, not only every Kind 
of Fruit exaGtly of the right Kind defired, but the very beft 
Growth, and at reafonable Rates. 
Let lofty Hills, and each declining Ground, 
(For there they flourib) with tall Firs abound, 
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Layers of thefe cut from fome antient Grove, Es a 
And buried deep in Mould, in Time will move 
Young Shoots above the Earth, which foon difdain 
The Southern Blafts, and launch iato the Main. 
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Of the Iuex, or Ever-green Oak; its Cul- 
ture, &c. | 
of its Timber, as wall as the immediate Beauty of its 
Form and delightful Leaves, which are green all the Win- 
ter, &c. "Tis a Tree of a quick Growth, and is naturally very 
large. Tis increas’d from its Acorn, and isas much inclinable to 
have Tap-Roots as the common Exglifh Oak. The Time of 
plaiting the Acorns is in February, when they fhould be planted 
ina Bed, about five Inches fquare off one another, and the 
Mould very frefh and good, always obferving to keep them — 
ae HIS Kind of Oak is to be valued for the great Services 
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