each Side of the Support. 
of GARDENING. 
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GENTLEMEN, 
HAVE read Mr. Stupnenson’s Method of 
managing Beans fown in Augut: I will affure 
you tt is a Secret, for I have not feen it prattisd 
in above three Gardens, and even they bad their 
Knowledge firft from me. I fully purpofed to re- 
veal to you my Way of managing them; but Mr. 
Stevenson has deliver’d my former Method ex- 
acity. : 
TF fall now add fimnitbing'h to it, and inform you of 
aWay that I have contrived of late to preferve them 
thro the Winter, which I Be to be better sage 
by Glaffes. 
_f prepare a Reed-Hedge, in all Relpes like that 
Tl ufe for Auriculas, Carnations, Cauli iflower Plants, 
— &cc. only this is moveable, as I call it; that is, 
this Hedge moves at the Ti op, being made into Pan- 
-nels ten or twelve Feet long. 
To every Pannel there are two Iron Hinges at the 
Bottom, for it to move on. Then about jive Feet 
from the Bottom of the Hedge, that is, about a 
Foot from the Edge of the Border under the Hedge, 
and exatily between ‘the Pannels, that is, againft 
where the Pannels part, there is a frong Support 
. fired perpendicular. 
When the Hedge is at its proper Elevation, . the 
Top of it comes clofe to thefe Supports : ‘but then 
| there are Pieces of Oak, two Inches broad, and three | 
quarters of an Inch thick, with Holes bored in 
thefe Slips are fixed at | 
them at proper Diftances : 
the Top of the Reed-Hedge, fo as to come on 
There are Holes bored 
alfo in the Support, for good ftrong Pins to go thro’ 
the Slips, that are to make them sl : the 
Support, and to flay the Hedge. 
ah. GOMPLEAT BODY 
bieb, ‘Nienine to water and fhade a till they 
To the PRopRIETORS of the CompLeTe Bony | have taken Root. 
- The Hedge may remain jboidihut. for them to 
receive the Dews, until the Cold comes on, fo as to 
be. too foarp for them: only in heavy Rains it 
foould be lower’d, and Mats hung before them, 
to keep off beating Showers: for the Mould on 
the Border foould be got pretty dry before Winter, 
that the Frofts way not have too much Power 
OR tf. 2 
I fet the Plants in Rows, from the Hedge to 
the Front; three Inches Diftance in the Rows, and 
two Feet Row from Row: and I throw fome Pulfe, 
or fome other foort Covering, between the Rows in 
Winter. 
Tho’ thefe Pedies over-hang, yet beating Reins | 
will come at the Plants if not prevented by the 
Mats ; and this fhould not by any Means be neglected, 
neither for thefe, or Auriculas, Carnations, or Cau- 
hi iflower Plants, or any thing that is planted under 
thefe Hedges; for I obferve Wet to 4 as gcc an 
Enemy as the Severe Cold. 
In the Spring thefe Hedges will require to be oy 
perpendicular, for the Plants to receive Rains and 
Dews, and for Room for them to grow. This is all 
the Difference between Mr. Stevenson’s Method 
and mine. The cutting of them down, and every thing 
elfe, being the cased as in bis. — 
Tam, Sir, 
Your moft humble Servant, . 
dl iB ARN ES * 
Now tee the World judge between us and” 
the Author of the Gardeners DiGionary : Could 
there be any thing improper in our advifing from 
The Slips ought to be fo long as to reach down from | Reafon, what has been, tho? unknown to us, 
the Top of the Hedge when it ftands perpendicular 
brought fuccefsfully into Pra¢tice? Or what 
to the Supports. Now it is ealy to conceive, that by | muft be the Judgment of that Perfon in his 
ibe Help of thefe Ships the Hedge may ee Le at 
what Elevation you pleafe. © | 
TI put the Beans into the Ground in Auguft, in 
‘tato this Border when they have got vibe Inches 
own Bufinefs, who declar’d a Thing impracticable, 
which he here finds a Country Gardener has feveral 
Years 
“an open Spot of the Garden, and tranfplant them par ingl dae 
practis’d himfelf, and taught his BF rignds” 
Phe Gardener | to William een Efq;, at El/bam, near Brigg, in Lincolnpire, 
EDEN: 
ete, Sittin nc a regen 
Feb. 
