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them on Fire. 
the raifing tender Exoticks. There is fuch a 
Thing as a general Compoft, which beings of a 
middle Nature between the feveral Kinds, will 
fuit the Generality of Plants ; and will be better 
than almoft any Thing which can offer naturally. 
For this Ufe, the beft Mixture Ihave experienced, 
and I have tried many, is the following. 7 
Cut up a Load of Earth from under the Turf, 
in fome expofed Place by a Road-fide, or elfe- 
where, where there has been no great Growth of 
Weeds, and where Cattle have frequently lain. 
Pare off the Turf three Inches thick, and cut 
for your Ule, the good Soil one Spade Depth 
below it. | ‘i 
Let this be taken up ina Place where the 
Ground is naturally good, and it will be a kind 
of Virgin Earth. 
The Roots of the Grafs have fcarce at all pe- 
_ netrated it, and it is enriched by the Urine and 
Perfpiration of the Cattle, and with the richeft 
Part of their Dung wafhed in by Rains. - 
To one Load of this, add half a Load of 
Wood-pile Earth, three quarters of a Load of Ri- 
vet-mud, and half a Load of Marle: fet the Turf 
in a high Heap, which was cut off the Ground; 
and putting fome dry Furze Bufhes under it, fet 
. Burn the Turf, not to Athes, 
but till it comes to a Heap of crumbly reddifh 
Matter. Bring in thisand putto the reft.. 
Let all thefe be perfectly well mixed together, 
vand laid in a Heap, fprinkling them at firft with 
four or five Pots of Water, and afterwards leav- 
ing them to the Effect of Rain and Froft. 
- Once in a Month the whole Heap is to be 
turned, and when it has lain the Winter it is to 
be fcreened for the Service of the Borders. 
_ The manner of fcreening, we fhall direét 
when we treat of that Seafon. This is all that is 
to be done at prefent, and this will produce a 
‘Compoft, rich without Dung ; and fuch, as if | 
duly wrought, by good digg ing and breaking, 
will feed all the common kindof Garden Flow- 
ers luxuriantly for their ufeful Parts, without 
making them rank in Leaves. 
It will alfo raife many of the moft choice Flowers, 
Plants will live in it longer, and endure the 
Winter always better than in dunged Soils; and 
they willin general ripen their Sects more perfectly, 
Many employ more ‘Time and Trouble on their 
Compofts, who fucceed much worfe: This we 
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_ Fecommend from frequent fuccefsful Trials. 
In Places where: Marle cannot be had, the 
Quantity of what is ordered here, muft-be made 
up, half with Wood Pile Earth, and half with 
Pond Mud, ’and about half a Peck of Stone 
Lime muft be added. This we have found 
very well fupply the Deficiency. | | 
_ We have recommended to the Gardener, the 
following the Practice of the Dutch and French, 
in raifing all bulbous Flowers from Seed. : 
A Succeffion of thefe muft be fown in move- 
able Boxes of fine Earth, as we have directed, 
and fhall farther explain at the Seafon. 
They mutt now be removed into a warm Place, 
where they may be fheltered from Winds, and 
enjoy the full Benefit of the Winter’s Sun : They 
muft be looked over carefully, that no Weeds be 
fuffered to rife among them, nor Mofs to appear 
on the Edges. 
_ This Care will keep them in all the Scmength 
required for their flow Progrefs at the prefent 
Seafon, and they will advance in their gra- 
dual Way to Perfection. 
This Care being taken of the Seedling Bulbs, let 
the Gardener fee that none of his valuable potted 
Flowers are left expofed, but that his Carna- 
tions are under Hoops and Mats, and his 
Auricula’s on their covered Stand. That done, 
he may for the prefent Week leave this Part of | 
the Ground, 
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The rae of the oe MINA RY, for the prefent Week 
T H E Growths of the nage are to be in the 
fame Manner protected from the Frofts of 
the fucceeding Months, as the Produéts of the 
Flower-Garden ; though in a different Degree: 
When there are Beds of Seedling Shrubs, or 
of perennial Flowers of a fomewhat tender’ Na-— 
ture, they muft be defended from the. _enfuing 
Rains and Frofts. ; 
The beft Method is by Hoops and Mats, or 
Cloths. Only let the Gardener remember this is 
a Place where Things are raifed for Hardinefs ; 
and therefore while he preferves them alive, let 
him take Care he does not make them too tender. 
Let es ie that defend thefe Beds ftand high, 
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and the Mats never be drawn over them, but in 
very bad Weather; and even in the worft, let 
them have fome Air at thofe Hours when it is 
well warmed by the Sun. 
This is the Praétice which beft fuits thofe 
Seedlings that have fome Height; and it may be 
ufed alfo to Cuttings of the eiudsit Kinds that 
are fet i in this Part of the Ground, 
For thofe Beds in which the Plants are but 
fhooting, or have very little Height, the bet 
Defence is a fprinkling of long dry Straw, which 
muft be taken off again when the Weather is 
better. : 
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