New Principles of Gardening. 
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Of the Bay-Tree; tts Culture, &c.. 
F : 1HE Bay-Tree is a beautiful Tree, and may be bred Stan- 
dards, to be planted in an open Grove of Ever-Greens.. 
Tis encreafed from Seed, Layers, Suckers, or Cuttings. 
It delights in a gravelly, moift, fhady Soil, and therefore beft in 
a Grove or Wildernels.. It muft (as all. other: Trees). be kept 
well water’d after planting, .which.is to be done in 4pri/ or Au- 
uff. To raife this Tree trom its Seed or Berries, -you muft ob- 
ferve, that they are not gather’d before they are quite ripe, that 
afterwards you lay them thin, ina dry Place to fweat, which be- 
ing over, put them into dry Sand, and keep them therein till the 
Middle of Februvary.next enfuing, and then fow them ina Bed 
of fine Earth, as dire@ed for.the Afhen-Keys, &c. When they 
have ftood three Years in the Seed-Bed, you mutt. tranfplant 
them:into the Nurfery, obferving to prune off their. Roots, and 
keep them ‘digg’d. every Year, free from. Weeds, and tranfplanted 
every third Year, till they are planted out in the, Places. where 
they are to remain. Amongft all the Kinds. of Ever-Greens, I 
know none more beautiful than the Bay-Tree, provided that its. 
luxuriant Branches are pruned with a Knife, and not barbarouf- 
ly mangled with Sheers. To increafe this Plant from Cuttings. 
or Layers, you mutt obferve to perform thofe Works in Ogfober, 
in. the Manner as before diretted. 1n fome very hard Wanters;. 
the fevere Frofts will difcolour them, and the only Way to reco- 
ver ig Plants, is to head them down to found and healthy. 
Wood. : 
The Dutch Bay-Tree is more tender than our Englifh Bay- 
Tree, and therefore requires to be fhelter’d in the Green-Houfe 
during the Severity of the Winter. Of this Kind of Bay-Tree, 
the fineft, thatI ever faw, are thofe inthe Gardens of the Royal 
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