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The Dire ‘of the SE MINARY, for he firft Week in November. a 
‘7 E have before reminded the Gatdener, 
that in general the Work of one Kind 
in his Ground is to be continued to another Part 
at the fame Seafon : ’Tis fo’in the prefent Cafe. 
When he has remov’d his Shrubs out. of the 
Nurfery into the Garden, he mutt fee what farther 
remains to be done there under the fame Article. 
This Week heought to finith the Tranfplant- 
ing in this Quarter: for the Cold will come on, 
‘and it will be better if deferr’d much longer, to 
let it alone till Spring. : 
When the firft and fecond Week of Neale ) 
are over, he fhould think the next that comes for 
this Service is the fecond i in February. 
- Let him fee that the Stakes are fecure which 
fupport his new-planted Trees; and fcatter fome 
Haulm of Peafe about their Roots, and prefs it 
down by Stones; for this will keep the Earth at 
once moift and warm. 
We have nam’d the Spring pute doa in this 
Quarter, to put the Gardener in Mind of prepar-_ 
_ ing for it. We have told him how much Benefit 
_ the Earth gets’ by being expos’d to the Air and — 
Sun; and that good Tipe is, in this Part, bet- 
_ ter than Manure. 
Let the Ground that is  deftin’d ae the Spring 
Plantation, have this Advantage to the full; for. 
there is Time for it, and a very ufeful Seafon. 
The Froft will affift the Labour of breaking the 
- Mould; and there is no Time of the Year in | 
which the Air fo much abounds with thofe Princi- 
ples, that affift Vegetation. 
To take the Advantage fully, let the Ground | 
be dug deep, and thrown up in Ridges; and once 
in a Month, for the whole Winter, when the 
‘Weather permits, let it be broke again, and expos’d — 
with a new Surface. © | 
Ignorant Writers call this fweetning the Soil ; 
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but let our Student underftand Things beta It 
is the Courfe of Nature that Plants exhauft the. 
Nourifhment of the Ground: thefe fupply Animals 
with Food; and the feveral Parts and Excrements - 
of thofe Animals, for this Reafon, are found all 
to ferve as Manures ; enriching the Earth again; 
as do alfo the Stalks and Leaves of fuch Plants 
as decay uponit. 
This is the Round of Nature; and this explains 
What many have thought fo Panes that every 
Kind.of Animal or ‘Venerable Subftance, when i in 
its Decay, ferves as Manure, 
But, befide thefe Things, which, reftoring to 
the Soil again thofe Parts of which the raven of 
Plants had robb’d it, give it a Recruit of Strength 
and Richnefs, the original Principles of Vegeta- 
tion and Fertility are Basil in the Earth itfelf, 
and in the Air and Rains. The Earth can never . 
be fo exhautted, but that thefe will refrefh, reco- 
ver, and reftore it; and they will do it, when 
' there is Time to wait their Operation, in a gentle — 
and more perfeét Manner than all Manures. 
On this Principle depends the Ufe of F allowing; 
and thus fhould the Ground, in the Seminary, be 
improv'd : for all Manures are hurtful in this 
Ehces | 
Let the Earth, thus exhaufted by ie Growth 
| of Trees, be turn’d up to the Frofts and Fogs, 
Dews and Rains, the Sun. and Winds, and scsi dh 
will fertilize > | 
a new Surface; and as thefe Turnings will, 
at the fame Time, encreafe the Fertility. of the | 
Mould, and prevent the Growth of thofe Weeds, 
which would exhauft it, there will be every Ad- 
vantage given it for the Support of the fucceeding 
Plantation. — 
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Produéts of the Fruit-Garden yet in Seafon.. ii —— 
E have warn’d the Reader, that this Arti- 
cle will every Week decline; let him not 
therefore i impute tous that Scancines of the Ac- 
count, which is owing to Nature. 
Winter is no Time for Fruits ripening; our 
beftSeafon, inthis Country, fcarce ferves for the bet- | 
ter Kinds ; and all we can expect now, that Nature 
yields us little, is the Refource of Art to propa- 
gate and ripen them by an unfffatural Heat ; 
offer us what fhe has preferv’d, 
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The Nut-Kind which we mentioned lait, continue 
in being, tho? with lefs Perfection. 
The Service and Medlar are as good as ever, if 
well kept; and there are Apples and Pears yet of 
various Kinds. 
The Pine-Apple continues, from our: Stoves ; 
and Grapes, under a proper Prefervation.  ~ 
The Method we have mention’d of tying them 
up, will keep many Kinds good yet: but we hall 
here add a Praétice, which F xperience has fhewn 
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