OF GARDENING. 
that Condition for the Rain to wafh in its Vir- 
ue: No more Care is required in this Bufinefs 
than to fee thatno Plant of the Strawberries be 
buried at the Heart, fo as to make it rot. 
Laft of all let the Alleys between the Beds be 
dug up a full Spit deep, and the Mould well 
broken,; ;. 
Vaft Quantities of Roots. are “tent from the 
Strawberry Plants into this Part, and the Ends 
of them are by this Means trimmed off, and there 
is a freth Soil for them to fhoot new Fibres. 
. Thefe never fail to be produced from Roots of | 
all Kinds, when they are cut in this Manner, 
and when there isa Mould thus broken to receive 
them. 
It is thus the dige ing about the Roots of 
Trees affifts them ; -and this is the Source of that 
vatt Fertility, rifing from the new Method of 
Culture in Fieldsy €alled the Horfe-hoeing Hut- 
bandfy. ©... 
The Hoe-Plough cuts the Soil aie the 
- Plants are growing, as digging up the Alleys in 
this Inftance, anil aie fame Strength of the 
Growth follows. from both. The Strawberry. 
never fails to produce after this, not only more 
Fruit, butlargers 
This done, let the Gardener look to. his Stan- 
dard: Apple-Trees, whether thofe formed into 
Dwarfs in the Garden, or fuch as are planted in | 
the Orchard: Both are the Sources of every va- 
-Yuable Fruit for the Table, and they deferve all 
the Care which they demand.at this Seafon. 
We have fpoke of the Mifchief arifing in — 
Flower-Borders, from their being over-run with 
Mofs, the fame Accident. happens particularly. to 
Apple-Trees, and the Reafon is the fame: The 
Species of Mofs is. different, but there is no 
other Variation. 
This muft be cleared A and the sneha Sea- 
fon is the beft: Time of the Year. for doing it. 
The right Method is to clean it off it by means 
of a long Knife with a blunt Edge. 
This may be ufed in the way of Scraping, and 
the Branches may be thoroughly cleaned, with- 
out being in any Part wounded. When this is 
done, . let the, whole Tree be examined for what- 
ever elfe is amifs; if two Branches crofs, or 
croud. one another at the Extremities, let one of 
them be cut off or thinned in that Part. 
If in any Part there be loofe Pieces of decayed 
Page let them be taken away and the Place 
cleaned wiped ; Infects breed there, which after- 
“TLE. Produéts named in our laft Cata- 
logue continue in Seafon, and the Winter 
~ advances too quick for much Addition ; we fall 
2 
wards deftroy the Fruit. 
Wherever there is a Piece of the Bark rotten, 
let it be clean cut away to the Quick, for it will 
never recover, and if left on it will foread the 
Mifchief. 
W. 1 
herever a large Branch is cut off, the Place 
mutt be fo contrived that Wet cannot lodge upon 
5 it. 
| If cut with a Saw, it muft be pared even 
with a Chiffél,’ and made floping downwards. 
Very old Boughs fhould always bé taken from 
Apple-Trees, fee the Fruit which grows upon 
them, is fmaller than naturally it fhould be. 
And there ‘will ‘never be any Difficulty in getting 
a good Supply of proper Branches; and beads 
ing Wood in their Place, 
Shoots fuited to that Purpofe are to be trained 
by Bandages into a proper horizontal Growth 
_and where there are none let a {mall Piece of 
Wood be cut out with a Chiffel. 
This preferving of young and proper Shoots 
for bearing, and taking off the old, is thegreat Art 
of producing fine Fruit from old Trees; for that — 
never happens from any other Management. 
“When the Trees themfelves are thus put in 
good Condition, the next Care i is to be beftowed 
upon the Ground. 
Let it be well weeded, and as often as Occa- 
fion, requires enriched with Manure or Tillage; 
or beft of all with both. 
Docks and the deep-rooting Thiftles are very 
pernicious in Orchards. ‘The fewer Weeds of 
any kind are left there the better; but thofe 
which penetrate far into the Ground are detri- 
mental in the higheft Degree. 
‘It is an Error to let Turf cover the Surface of 
the Ground in an Orchard ; but when the Plan- 
tation is made in the old Way, with the Tres 
clofe, there is no Remedy. 
The beft Way of Planting, is fuch a Di- 
ftance that a Plough can come between; and in 
that Cafe the Trees thrives every Way better 5 
the breaking of the Ground ferves as Manure 
without its Ranknefs, and the Sun and Air have 
free Paffage, which is very effential to the good 
Tafte and well ripening of Fruit. 
The beft Manure for an Orchard is a Mixture 
of two Parts Dung, and one Part Coal Soot. 
Let this be blended carefully, and fpread all over 
the Ground between the Trees, not piled up in 
Heaps juft about their Stems, according to the 
old Practice. 
Penttareteretereri sitet orererereri ctr ee eeyee 
therefore devote this Section to the Care and Ma- 
nagement of the Ground. 
Frofts grow fevere, and the Gardener muft 
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