New Principles of Gardening. 
Let Phillyrea on your Walls be placd, 
Either with Wire, or flender Twigs made faft. 
Its brighter Leaf with proudeft Arras vies, 
And lends a pleafing Object to our Eyes. 
Then let it freely on your Walls afcend, 
“And there its native Tapefiry extend. 
Rapin. 
S59 EC fT. XL 
Of the Arbutus, or Strawherry-Tree ; its 
Culture, &c. 
HIS beautiful Plant produces Bloffoms twice a Year, and 
its Fruitis ripe in the Winter: ’Tis a Plant that greatly 
adds to the Beauty of a Garden, Wildernefs, Sc. but will 
not admit of being clipp’d as moft other Ever-Greens are; ’tis 
a very great Ornament to a Wildernefs, and makes the moft 
agreeable Hedge as can be defired: The Leaf is ofa very agree- 
able Form, and of a pleafant lively Green} ’tis increafed from Seed 
or Layers, which laft, fhould be laid down in September, and re- 
main upon the Stool two Years at leaft, to be well rooted, being 
always waterd in dry and hot Seafons. The Fruit is ripe about 
Chrifimas, whofe Form is very like that of a Strawberry ; but its 
Tafte is like untothat of Service. When the Fruit is gather’d, let 
itdry ; then break them to Pieces, which put into Sand, where 
they muft remain until the End of March, or Beginning of Apre/, 
at which time they muft be fow’d in a Bed of fine HKarth, co- 
verd about half an Inch with fine Mould fitted thereon. 
Your Seed being thus fown, you mutt be careful to keep 
the Earth moift; and when you water it, take care that 
the Water’s Force do not difturb the Earth, whereby the young 
Seedlings may be prejudiced. N. B. If you were to fow the 
Seed on adecay’d Hot-Bed, *twould greatly help the Germi- 
nation of the Seeds. 
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