Kinds. 
a Peg, to keep it in, its Place: 
them from Danger by Froft; but there is yet | 
OF GARDENING 
tering; and after this, at Times, when there is 
no Danger of Hurt from it, let the Watering be 
repeated, giving it carefully to each, 
Hours after Sun-rife; and ufing a Pot with fine 
Holes, and Water from a fhallow or well thel- 
ter’d Pond. 
In this Way the Courfe of Nature will be kept 
on in the proper gradual Method: neither forc’d 
nor retarded. The Shoot for Bloom will rife~ 
as the Seafon calls it forward; and the Plants 
will fhew the beft Flowers of their feveral 
This Care being taken of the pice let 
the Gardener look carefully over his other Beds of 
Flowers. ‘There are fome we fhall advife him yet 
to plant; and the others, according to their Degree 
of Growth, will require a various Management : 
for there is a great deal of Difference in Nature | 
in the State of fuch Plants as have not yet fhewn 
their firft Shoot above Ground, and fuch as 
have. 7 
We fhall begin with what little we have to di- | 
ret refpecting Planting. It is a very advanced 
Seafon, and fome will exclaim at the Thought of 
putting Tulip Roots, at fuch a Time, into the 
Ground: but let thefe recollect how much we have 
faid of it, and how often inculcated the pipyiging | 
for a Succeffion. 
We fhall yet direct fome Tulip. Roots to be 
fet, which have been kept out ef the Ground 
- for that Purpofe; becaufe this late Planting will 
make late Flowering; and there will be Spring 
Flowers. in son's a Garden till the . full Blow of 
Summer. 
For thet, let a high and dry Border be dug up, 
and let: them be planted at the fame Diftance we © 
have direéted for thofe in Autumn, but half an 
“Inch deeper. Let the Earth be drawn carefully 
over their Tops; and upon the Bed let there be 
ftrewn fome Peafe-{traw, driving in here and there 
this will keep 
another Article of Mifchief, from which they re- 
quire Defence: this is Rain: and againft this the 
Fea-fieaw 4 is little Protection. | | 
* Roots thus planted in new dug Earth, kept _ 
" foft by the ftrawy Covering, will not fail to fhoot 
and thrive if they.continue tolerably dry; but ifra 
cold Rain drenches the Ground juft after, they 
- would rot in the Places where they fhould have 
To prevent this, in all hard Showers — 
grown. 
let a Mat be drawn over the Bed; 
’ 
and this be 
three . 
conftantly repeated as often as the Danger happens, 
till they are up. 
With Refpect to the Difference of thofe feveral 
Beds which were planted in Autumn, we have nam’d 
the firft Diftin@tion, which is, that between fuch 
as are up, and fuch as do not yet appear above 
Ground, 
The Defence of thefe latter is the eafier; for 
there: requires nothing but a” Covering ae the 
Surface of the Bed. It isthe F ations at. pre- 
fent to ufe Tan for this Purpofe; a Cuftom ; intro- 
duc’d from the Practice of thofe Gardeners, who 
ufing a.great deal of it in Stoves and Hot-Beds, 
do not: know what to do with the Refufe: but it 
is very wrong. Tan is too fall; it-covers'too 
clofe, -and_ heats upon the Bed, which was not 
intended. 
I have found Pea Aras better than any thing 
for this Purpofe ; and:my Cuftom has always been 
to throw .a good | Coat of it over the whole 
With Refpect to thofe which are up, they mutt 
‘not be thus cover’d, but Mats fhould be drawn 
over the Hoops we have directed to be plae’d po 
the Beds for that Purpofe. 
This is a very needful Practice; but in the im- 
proper Management of fome Gardeners it has done. 
more Harm than Good. Ay. 
A great deal of Care is to be taken that the 
Plants. are cover’d up no longer nor oftener than 
there is abfolute Neceffity; and there’ requires 
great Attention and Difcretion for the hardning 
ots afterwards to the Air. 
-Thofe which have not been fhelter’d from the 
Colds of Winter, will bear very well the worft 
have been us’d to this Defence. It is a Prattice 
that when once begun, muft be continu’d, other- 
wife thefa Plants wil! fuffer when others are not in 
Danger. 
In the Managetnent of aanfkilfial Galilensit 
thefe Hoops and Mats have deftroy’d more Plants 
| than the Winter’s Froft. They either choak them 
up till they lofe the Principle of Life, and from 
the Warmth and Moifture of the Air grow 
mouldy ; or they keep them fo warm in Winter, 
that if they efcape the firft Danger, they perith 
by the natural Cold of Spring, to which they 
muft of Neceflity be expos’d, and which frores 
their former nurfing they cannot bear. 
M m mm a Ag ag 
Jan. 
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Blafts of Spring, but. it is not fo with fuch as | 
