(OF GARDENING. 
Dec. 
Air at Times, when it can do leaft harm ; 
“———— and to keep off that Severity which would be 
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deftructive. 
This is not the common Practice of Gardeners; 
for they cover them all the Depth of Winter, 
and open them in Spring ; 
fuffer great Damage by that Method, lofing the 
very Branches, atch fo much Care was tak- 
en to defend ; the firft cold Night after the Co- 
vering is taken away, deftroying them ; its Ef- 
fect being the greater, by the too ftriét De- 
fence before. 
The Practice I have ufed, is this. 
Where I have thought a Wall Fig-Treée in 
Danger, I have fixed a Piece of Matting to © 
the Top, broad enough to reach to the Ground ; 
and plac’d a Row of forked Sticks ey; the Bot- 
tom in the Ground. 
The Mat has thus been raifed, more or lef as the 
severity of the Seafon required. Let the Garden- 
er manage thus. Let him provide a Piece of Mat | 
that will cover the Tree, and reach from the 
Top of the Wall to the Ground, 
about eight Inches upon it. 
Then “et him fet up the Row of forked Sticks, 
- juft where it touches ; and at each End of the 
Mat, drive a firm Stick into the Wall,. 
if, 
This will be a Preparation, by which the Tree. 
may be fafficiently fheltered, and yet by De- 
grees opened to the soaiyy il Air, as the Seafon 
will permit. ~~ | | 
In the fevereft Weather, let the Mat fall over | 
the whole Tree, and lay fome Bricks upon the | 
Edge of it, which lies upon the Ground fo | | 
that no Wind can raife it : 
clofe at the Sides. 
- This will be a — — the very worft 
Weather ; and it muft only. be ufed in fuchs | 
at other Times, according as the Seafon grows 
more mild, the°Sides may be left to play’ 
loole 5 5 the Bottom may alfo be at Labeny * to 
then fee that it falls 
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CHL ORTS, or the 
J E have directed the Management of Ar-- 
tichoke Beds in a_ preceding Week, 
but the careful Gardener muft from Time to 
Time look over the Bufinefs he has done, to fee 
what Condition the feveral Parts preferve. 
It is not enough Things are put into a 
good Way, they muft be kept in it ; and thefe 
are Seafons when a little Neglect may do a great 
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-but the Trees often — 
admit the Air, by taking away the Bricks ; ; and 
there will thus be enough let in to prevent 
{tifling. , 7 
When the Weather is milder, the Bottom of 
the Mat is to.be raifed on the forked Sticks ; 
and when it is {till more favourable, the Sides 
may be raifed alfo on the fhorter or longer 
Sticks, placed in the Wall for that Purpof>. 
Thefe are the feveral Degrees ; ; and in the 
better Days that came toward the Approach of 
| Spring, the whole Mat may be turned up to the 
| Top of the Wall during the three Hours a: 
bout Noon, 
Thus the iG: will be preferved through 
the Winter, without being choaked up; and 
the Admiffion of Air in A regulated Man- 
ner; will keep upthe Principle of Vesetation, and 
. the Juices will have their freé Coutfe, when 
Spring fends them up inthe more large Manner. 
_ The Tree will be preferved through the worft 
Weather, and will be in no bates from the 
frefh Expofure of the Air in Spring, becaufe 
and hang | it has been habituated to feel j it by Degrees. 
The particular: Manner in which we have de- 
| {cribed this Method, is not to make any fuppofe 
| it is attended with great Trouble. | 
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two Feet long, and anothier of one Foot near | 
| the Frofts, and expofed to the Air; ‘and the 
_ Gardener is expetted to go His daily — fof 
that Purpofe. 
In every good Garden, there are many Things 
which require to. be occafionally fheltered oft 
This is oné of therm ; ; and it will only fare a 
| common Care with the reft. 
~The Trouble will be little; and the Advan- 
tage greater than many are aware. 
“The carly Appearance of the Fruit on this’ 
Tree isa great Article, and they will thus be 
— _ forwarded vaftly : the Quantity of them is the 
- riext ‘Confideration ; and this will be encreafed 
inthe fame Proportion: for the Protection the 
Tree has received during the Winter, gives 
_ Nature her’ full Power of Jrdiihas them. 
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KITCHEN-GARDEW. 
| deal of Mifchief 
Let him fee that the Plants keep sie earth’d 
up, for on that will depend their Preferva- 
tion, and certainly their Forwardnefs in Spring. 
Let him repeat all that Attention and Care 
we have directed for the Cauliflower Plants, which 
are under Glaffes, giving them Air in the moft 
favourable Hours to prevent their Decay; and 
COs 
Dec. 
