New Principles of Gardening. 
SF Gre EL 
Of the Box-Tree ; its Culture, &c 
other varigated; which are both raifed from Slips, Lay- 
ers, or Seed. 
Their natural Soil is chalky mountanous Lands, but will 
grow very well in moft loamy Soils. ’Tis a Tree that will grow 
to a very large Size, of which Box-Hill in Surry is a good 
Evidence. 
It is a very pleafant Tree, to be mix’d with other Stan- 
dards in a Grove of Ever-Greens: It makes fine Hedges, and is 
very beautiful in the Quarters of a Wildernefs. “Lis a Tree 
of a very flow Growth ; but its Wood 1s of great Service for 
the making of Seétors, Quadrants, and other Mathematical In- 
ftruments ; and will endure the hardeft Frofts our Winters 
produces. Its Leaf is very fmall, and of a beautiful light Green, 
and is never fo difagreeable as fome makes it, in refpect to 
its Smell. 
Dutch Box is ofa much lefler Growth, then the preceeding, 
being only ufed for the Edging of Borders, inftead of Bones, 
Border-Boards, €c. and is of all others the moft cheapeft, 
handfomeft, and lafting Edging; but the moft improper to Edge 
fuch Borders with wherein Fruit-Tvees are planted, except 
they are very broad,and the Roots of the Box cut away every 
Year, on that fide that is next to the Fruit-Trees, by a Spade, or 
the like, at the Time when thofe Borders are digg’d; for you 
mult underftand that this kind of Box grows more in its Roots, 
than its Top, and is an open Robber of every Plant or Shrub 
that grows near It. 
(): Box-Trees there are two Kinds; the one plain, and the 
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