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New Principles of Gardening. 
Time I took it out of the Linen Bag, and obferved that it had 
fhrinked very much, and was become very hard, And having 
prepared a Seed Bed, 1 fow’d the fame, as alfo fome of the 
{ame Seed, as was kept in my Seed Drawers, and others of 
eight Years old, of the fame Kind: The Seed that was kept 
in the Seed Drawer, of one Year's Age, came up immediately : 
But the others, v#z. That of eight Years old, and that of one 
Year preferved in my Pocket, as aforefaid, did not come up 
within two Days after the firft, and were much weaker: How- 
ever, being very eager to fatisfy my Curiofity herein, I gave 
them an equal Attendance in every part of their Government, 
and at length found, that the Seed of one Year's Growth, 
kept in the Seed Drawer, produced very large Vines, and. little 
or no Fruit; but the Seed of one Year, which I preferved in 
my Fob, produced rather a much better Crop, than that which was 
eight Years old : From which it appear’d, that the moderate 
dry Heat of my Body, communicated to it when in my Watch 
Pocket, had the very fame Effcét as when gradually dried by 
time in the Term of feven or eight Years. | 
When hot Beds or Ridges decay very much in their Heat, 
let them be lin’d as before directed for Afparagus, Se&. Il. and 
when many Ridges or Frames are placed before one another, 
cut away as much of the old Dung as is neceflary, and fill 
up the Alleys or Spaces between, even to the top of the Ridges, 
with frefh Horfe Dung, covering it with indifferent Earth, to 
prevent the Steam from rifing, which (as I faid before). is de- 
{ftructive to your Plants, 
The lefs that their Vines are difturbed on any Account, the 
better for the Veffels which convey the Juices to the Fruit, 
for being very tender, they are cafily bruifed and prejudiced by 
every Accident, dc. that caufes their removal, cwie 
The more Shade every Fruit poflefles, the better it grows: 
for when Fruit of any Kind is fully expofed to the Sun, before 
they have done growing, the direct Beams of the Sun dry 
and pinch the Veflels of it, (as Mr. Bradley obferves) that the 
Sap cannot pafs with fuch Freedom, as in thofe Fruits growing 
in the Shade,. whofe Veffels are open and free: Therefore al- 
ways remember that the immediate Heat of the Sun is only 
neceflary for the ripening the Juices of Fruit, when fully grown, 
and giving its natural Colour, and not for the Growth of it, 
as many have thought. When 
