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~The Care and Management of the Fibabiy: Garden, SOL and Stove, 
for chis Week. 
rected the Autumnal Plantation for the 
Flower-Garden, and it is now Time to prepare 
for that of the Spring. | 
_Many Flower Roots are to be planted at that 
‘Time, and to give them the full Advantage of 
Culture, the Borders fhould be made ready to re- 
ceive them now. Two Articles are to concur for 
this,. good Digging, and a moderate Enrich- 
ment By Manure. | 
_ If the Weather be feverely frofty, the Ground 
is too hard for the Spade, and it muft be omitted 
till better Opportunity.: but if it be a little 
mild and open, this is the Time. 
Dig up the Borders, where thefe are to be 
planted, a full Spade deep, take out all Roots of 
Weeds; break every Clod, and throw up the 
Mould in a fharp Ridge. This expofes it to 
_» Srott, Air, and-sup. and at the fame Time pre- 
vents Wet from lodging upon it. 
When the Ridcer. is Stet fift over it fome — 
Soot, and leave it thus for the prefent. 
From Time to Time it fhould be afterwards 
turned, but the fame Form of a high and fharp’ 
Ridge, ftill preferved in the avian it. 
This done, let the Gardener co the round ac his | 
Plants and Shrubs, and manage them according 
- tothe Seafon, defending them as we have already 
directed, when the Frofts are fevere, and giving 
them free Air when the Weather is milder. 
This is a moft effential Leffon to the Garde- 
ner, but in general very ill practifed: In our 
Gardens more Plants are deftroyed by the Me- 
thod ufed for their Protection than by the 
Frofts, from which fo much Care is taken to de- 
fend them. 
From the open Ground, let our es en- 
‘ter his Green-houfe, and from thence come into 
his Stove. 
Plants in the former; and that having been 
done fo lately, little more can be required there : 
but in the Stove his beft Care is needful. - 
A flight Caft of the Eye will thew him if there 
~ be dead Leaves any where on his Green-houfe 
| Plants 5 if any are feen, let them be picked off; 
and in the middle of fine mild Weather, if any 
fuch happen this Week, let the Windows of the 
Green-houfe be opened carefully in the middle of 
the Day. 
In the Stove the greateft Attention is requifite 
for the Prefervation of the Plants, and the keep- 
ing them in Beauty; thofe which we have di- 
netted to be pretend in this Manner, are Natives 
- of Climates in which Cold is unknown; therefore 
N°. 16. | I 
E have in the preceding Number, di- | they cannot éndure it: 
We have directed him to place his — 
“but on the other Hand, 
as the Heat in this Cake. is given by actual Fire; 
it would be eafy to carry that too far. 
“A Thermometer is a conimon Guide, and it 
is a very ufeful one; but we fhall direct the 
Gardener to judge by the moft certain of all 
Rules, the Afpeé of his Plants. 
As the Cold now approaches to its utmoft Sez 
verity, the Fire muft be encreafed accordingly ; 
but as that is done, let him every Day, once or 
oftner, look over his Plants to fee they do not 
fuffer by one Extreme or the other. 
If the Air in this Place be fuffered to Be tod 
cool, the Leaves of the Plants will begin to look 
weak: this is the firft Signal of Papier and 
upon examining the Toiss of their Branches, — 
they will be found withered. If the Neglect of 
them continues, the Leaves fall off; the Ex- 
tremes of all the Branches die; -and the whole 
Plant foon after. , 
_ Nothing but Negligence of the moft unpar- 
donable Kind can fuffer this Deftruction, which 
comes on fo gradually, and gives fuch plain and 
repeated Notice. | 
Upon the firft Appearance of it on the Plants, 
the Thermometer will confirm the Sufpicion ;_ 
and let the Fires be gradually encreafed, till the 
Rife of the Spirit; and the Afpect of the Plants 
mutually fhew the Danger is over. 
The other Fault of too much Heat; is the 
more fatal, as it bears no Afpect of Danger. Thefe _ 
Plants Natives of hot Climes, will live ina Heat 
much greater than their own, and will feem to 
thrive in it. ie 
‘A Stove that is kept too hot, will hence to an 
injudicious Eye, .appear in the moft perfect 
Condition of Health. — 
The Plants will look lively and grow freely : 
indeed too freely; for though it is natural 
and proper, ‘that they fhould grow during the 
Winter, as we have obferved on feveral Gece 
fions; yet nothing is worfe than their fhooting 
too faft at fuch a Time. 
The Degree of the Heat being thus properly 
managed ; two Things more require the Gardener’s 
Attention; thefe are the keeping the Plants 
clean, and the watering them. 
On the firft their Health and Vigour depends 
more than many are aware; and it were not 
fo, the ill Look of Plants, loaded with Filth 
and over-run with Infects, is very difagrecable, 
where .Curiofity’ is gratified at fo confidera- 
able an Expence. 
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