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New Principles of Gardening, 
Your Beds being prepared and fet out as before mention’d, 
{train a Line on the Edge or beginning of a Bed, by which 
draw a Drill with the corner of a {mall Hough about three 
Inches in Depth, and therein place your young Bulbs at about © 
three Inches apart, with their bottom clofe to the Earth ; then 
remove your Line three Inches farther into the Bed, and draw 
a fecond Drill, wherein place the Bulbs as before, and fo on till 
the whole Bed is planted ; then taking a Rake, level down the 
{mall Ridges of the Drills, and rake the Border or Bed level, and 
in like Manner proceed till your whole Plantation is ended, 
This manner of planting being duly obferved, you will have 
your new Plantation come up every Year in a very regular 
Manner, and if the Bulbs are all found, there’s none can 
mifcarry, except fuch as are deftroyed by Vermin. — - 
The common Method of planting dz/bous Roots with a 
Dibber, occafions many great Mifcarriages ; for the Hole made 
by the Shoe of the Dibber being much fmaller at bottom than 
it is in the thickeft part of the Dibber, prevents the Fibres of 
the Bul from ftriking Root, and therefore mug inevitably pe- 
rifh; for when the Bulf is put into the Hole and cannot get to 
the bottom, but fticks by the way at fucha Depth as the Plan- 
ter thinks is neceflary, it then has but one only Chance for its 
Life, and that is, being carelefsly put in the Hole, fideways, 
with the bottom of the Root to the fide of the Hole, inftead 
therein and preferve its Life ; as alfo when the fibrous or lower 
part of the Root is placed upwards inftead of downwards, and 
then at fuch times the leading Bud is obliged to extend its 
{elf in a horizontal Pofition (which is againft their Nature ) 
beyond the outfide of its Bu/é before it can Proceed to its natu- 
ral perpendicular Pofition. However, as’tis a very difficule mat- 
ter to beat fome flubborn Humours out of their old Road who 
will fooner fubmit to a great Lofs, than hearken to good In- 
ftructions ; I have only this to fay, that My particular Plea- 
{ure is to oblige the Wife and Curious, without any regard to 
the ftubborn Coxcomb. 
To give Dire@ions for the keeping of your Plantation is 
Meedicfs, fince that is natural to every good Gardiner. F 
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