Dec, Earth in Fields its great F ertility, and why fhould 
it be deny’d to an Orchard. - | 
Trees will indeed make their Way, and fup- 
without Man’s Affiftance; but they will do much 
better with it; and as fo fimall a Share will an- 
that. 
_ “By this Method of digging up the Ground, 
and a free. Ufe of the Bill and Saw,. in clearing 
‘ away fome of the Branches, an Orchard may be 
made to produce four times its ufual Quantity. 
W FE, have, in the preceding Week, directed 
the Gardener what he is to do: if the 
Weather at this Time prove very frofty ; and 
fhall now confider it in the other Extreme of 
Wet. = et > : ! , 3 
In this Cafe, the Advice we have piven him 
in the Nurfery, muft be continued here. If 
Water lodges in ariy Part, ‘it will be a certain Oc- 
cafion of Mifchief; therefore let it be taken off 
by a well cut Drain. | | 
- _ This is a Part of the Bufinefs very neceffary to 
be done at fome Time, and at none more proper 
_ than this, when the Seafon does not require nor 
admit any other Hurry, 
Let him next look to the Artichoke-Beds, 
which we direéted him lately to cover with 
Mould: if the Froft threaten, let a little dry 
Peafe-Haulm be fcattered over them; and, if 
Wet lodges, let it be in the fame Manner carry’d 
away. 3 ; 
There is no Part of the Ground in which a 
Lodgment of Water will not be hurtful; no 
Time of the Year at which it will be more de- 
ftructive than now: none when it fo readily dif- 
clofes itfelf; and none in which the Gardener is 
more at Leifure to remedy the Mifchief. _ 
‘Let him therefore this, or any of the fucceed- 
ing Weeks, when there happens much Rain, 
look to the whole Ground under his Care, ob- 
- ferve when the Damage is like to happen, and 
at once prevent it, for this and all fucceeding Oc- 
cafions. — | 
In a mild Day let him fix upon fome Spot for 
a good Crop of Peafe and Beans. 
Let him dig up the Ground, carefully break 
all the Clods, and then draw Lines for planting 
them. ; , 
The beft Bean for this Time, is the Sandwich ; 
port themfelves better than moft tender Plants, ; 
{wer the Purpofe, it is very wrong to with-hold | 
To compleat. this Work, let the Trees be 
thinn’d of fome of their abund 
The Philofophers Paradox, That Half js Bi 
than the Whole, will be very perfectly illuftrated 
in this Example. 
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CHLORIS, ‘or the KITCHEN-GARDEN. 
and for this Kind the Rows fhould be a Yard afunder, 
and the Plants eight Inches diftant in the Rows. 
The common Praétice places them much clofer; 
but they err, who fuppofe more Beans are produ- 
| ced by unreafonably multiplying the Plants in the 
inte Cece or Grgand. "ee ee 
~ No Reafoning is like Experience: and I have 
found, by fair Tryal, that in this Way the 
Ground will yield one third more Beans than | 
when twice as many Plants are rais’d in it; and 
that the Beans are always {weeter. : 
The Peafe. thould be fown in Drills, at confi- 
| derable Diftance, and fewer allow’d to the 
Ground, in the like Manner; for the fame 
Reafoning holds good, and is fupported by the 
fame Experience, that ten Plants, well nourifh’d, 
will produce from the fame Ground more Fruit, 
than twenty which are planted {0 near as to fta 
one another. : 
rve 
The Hotfpur is a very proper Kind for this 
Plantation, and they fhould be fcattered thin in 
Drills, about an Inch and half deep. The 
Ground fhould be well broke over them, and ~ 
they will fhoot at their own Time, fooner or later, © 
according to the Seafon; and will ripen fo early” | 
as to fucceed the Dwarf Peafe rais’d in Hot- 
Beds, as we fhall dire& in its proper Place. — 
The Peafe for that Ufe the Gardener has now 
growing, if he have obferv’d carefully our Di- 
rections for fowing them in the End of Autumn; 
and three Weeks hence we fhall dire€& him to 
take them up, and forward them by this artificial 
Method. - 3 
_ Here it may be proper to obferve, that he is 
by no Means to omit the fowing Peafe now for a 
natural forward Crop, becaufe he intends to raife 
fome for that Purpofe in Hot-Beds, for that is a 
| tedious Bufinefs ; and the firft Peafe that come in a 
“natural 
