Dec. 
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Clofenefs of the Room, and too much watering 
- the Plants, be continually guarding againft both. 
_ when -new planted ;: 
Ground: 
as we have directed it at large before, needs but 
to be nam’d again here. : 
- eover’d ; 
Let him never fail to open | his Windows. in the 
Middle of a mild Day ; and let him err on the 
fafe Side, by giving his Plants at fuch Times 
lefs Water than he knows they would bear. 
Tn the Stove ‘let the Heat be carefully Kept | 
| up to a due Height, without exceeding thofe Dec. 
- Bounds ; and let the Plants be water’d in Pro- -——— 
_ portion ; the more for the encreas ’d Heat, but al- 
| ways by a little at a Time. 
Many require no Moifture at this Seafon, as we 
have obferv’d; but for fuch as we have directed to 
| be water’d, let it be done moderately, tho’ often. 
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CPR ogy 1/0. 
The Bufinefi of the SEMINARY, for this Week. 
AHE whole Management. in this Part is 
confin’d at prefent to a {mall Compafs ; 
but there will, in a few Weeks, be Hurry 
enough in it; therefore let whatever can be done 
now, be duly executed. 
Let the Earth be turn’d which we have direéted 
to be laid in Ridges ; and a little Soot fcattered 
over it with an even Hand. This I have found 
of great Service, and this is the beft Time for 
doing it. «& 
_ The Rains wafh it in, and blend it well with 
the Mould before the Time of PiageS ; and it © 
_ is by: that Seafon in full Effect. a. 
It warms, loofens, and invigorates: the Soil, 
giving Force to the firft fhooting of the Roots 
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POMOWA, 
HE general Care of new-planted Trees 
is to be continued in this Part of the 
it corfifts of only two Articles; and, 
They muft be defended from the fevere Frofts, 
by keeping the Ground about their Stems well 
and from the Winds, by feeing that 
their Supports are fecure. 
« What fequires at this Time the Gardener’s 
moft particular Attention, is, the Care of his Fig- 
‘Trees. : 
“We directed him, in the Autumn, to take off 
all the Fruit from the young Branches, which 
- svould otherwife have rotted upon them, and de- 
ftroy’d them : and we advis’d him ‘in the Severity 
of Winter, ~to defend the Trees, by hanging 
yan. its Effect is, in a few |} 
| Weeks mote, exhaufted and loft; fo that it affitts — 
' the Growth when moft wanted, without perma- 
nently enriching the Ground, which is a Thing 
to be guarded againft, with Care, in a Nurfery: 
for the Plants fhould always find the Soil, to 
which they are remov’d, better than that whence 
they were taken. 
After this is done, let him look to his Sed. 
Beds of thofe Kinds moft in Danger from Ver- 
min; and bait his Traps with the more Care, 
when he fees any Hazard. 
| Let him. draw up the Earth, in mild Days, 
about his new-planted Shrubs ; and fee the Stakes 
of the reft keep fecure, that the Winds cannot 
rock them. 
» 
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or the FRUIT-GARDEN. 
before them fome Mats, or other Covering, from 
the Frofts and cutting Winds. 
"Tis now he will find the Neceffity of this 
Practice; and we are to caution him that he 
do not kill that with over Care, which would 
| have had fome Chance to efcape, if left ex- 
pos’d. 
The ’Principles of Gardening are the fame in 
- whatever Part of the Ground they are to be em- 
ploy’d ; and what we ‘have explain’d fo largely, 
refpecting the Management. of the Greenhoute 
Plants, holds: in all “the Articles, of the Fig- 
Tree and its Shelter. 
‘The tender Branches would be deftroy’d by the 
Froft; but they may alfo be choak’d up by too 
conftant ‘Covering. The Bufinefs of the Gar- 
‘dener is, in this Cafe, as the other, to admit the - 
‘ : Ait. 
