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SEC. TI 
The Managemen f the S E M IN A R T, for this W woh. 
Lanting, re: and Removing, at this 
Time ceafe ; it is but little therefore the Se- 
‘minary requires; but whatever it does require 
or can admit, fhould be. very carefully exe- 
cuted, to fave the Hurry of the approaching 
Spring. , 
We have directed, in a preceding Week, the . 
-Earth to be dug and thrown up in Ridges, that 
is intended for planting in February: let this be 
broke and turn’d in a mild Day; and thrown up 
in a new Ridge, that the Influence of Froft and 
“Winds may be receiv’d on a frefh Surface. 
There is no Seafon when a Gap or Breach in 
the Fences of a Seminary, can be fo mifchievous 
as at prefent . it wou’d admit the cutting Winds, 
that will nip the tenderer of the Plants; and Ver- 
min may get in, which will deftroy without Mea- 
fure. Some Kinds will bark the Trees, and others 
tear the Seeds out of the Ground. | 
For thefe Reafons let all be kept fecure; and 
Jet the young Trees be well fupported by their 
Stakes in the Stem, and preferved by covering the 
Earth about their Roots. | 
Cold Rains will fall at this Seafon, and they 
may be as s prejudicial i in this Part of the Garden- 
er’s Ground as any other. 
Let him obferve whether there be any Spot 
where they lodge; and, if there be, cut Drains 
from it, to carry the Water clean off. This 
is not only neceffary at this, but all other Seafons 
of the Year. 
In Winter a wet Ground gives the F roft too 
much Power upon the Roots; and in Spring it 
makes the Shrubs fhoot out too faft. 
. The Bufinefs in a Seminary, is, that the Plants 
fhould grow firm and found, which will never 
be fo well enfur’d as when the Ground is perfectly 
drain’d, 
The laft Care in this Part ‘of the Gudek for 
the prefent Week, fhould be the looking over tle © 
' Beds of Seedlings, whether of. the F ens or 
Tree Kind.‘ 
Thefe muft a little he fhelter’d by loofe Straw, 
a Mat, or other Covering, according to their 
Nature, as directed under the proper Heads, if 
the Froft. be fevere; and, if more remifs, thofe 
Coverings muft be accordingly rais’d UP» or taken 
off. 
FORGONE 
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POMONA, or the 
F the Froft be fevere this Week, nothing is 
‘to be done among the Fruit-Trees; but if the 
Weather be more open, and the Spade can be 
employ’d, there is no Time when it will be found 
more ferviceable. 
The Seafon is about to approach for the Roots 
- drawing Nourifhment, and thofe of Trees do it 
fooner than moft imagine. Therefore let the 
Earth now be prepar’d, to give Way to their 
young Fibres, and to fupply them with proper 
Juices. 
To this Purpofe, let the careful Gardener dig 
up all the Ground between the Trees in his Or- 
chard, a full Spade deep, picking out the Roots 
of Weeds as he finds them, breaking the Clods, 
and afterwards fifting on a little Soot, and 
{catering over that fome Pigeons Dung. This 
| will break the Stiffnefs of the Soil, and by that 
iil. 
FRUIT-GARDEN. 
Means give free Paflage to the young Shoots from 
the Roots of the Trees: thefe Shoots will be much 
more numerous, by Means of cutting off the 
Ends of old ones, and the Manure will be 
diffolved by the Rains of Winter, and tho- 
roughly wafh into the Earth before Spring. 
This Cultivation of the Ground about the 
Trees in an Orchard, is more neglected than any 
Part of the Gardener’s Bufinefs, ze is there not 
any Thing more neceflary. | 
The Condition of all Earth is this: when it 
lies at Reft it grows hard and folid: from this 
State it is broken and improv’d by Digging, for - 
the Plantation of the Trees; and when they are 
planted, if it be neglected, it will grow from 
that Time more and more firm; declining into its 
old natural State again. : 
The Induftry of Man in Tillage gives the 
I : Earth 
