“OF GARDENING 
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Frits artificially ripen'd ‘now in Seafon, 
E have direéted the Gardener to plant 
fome of the common, and fome few of 
the Chik Strawberries, in Flot-Beds, for an-early 
Produce; and taught him to avoid the common 
$Misibiende of their Bloffoms failing without fuc- 
ceeding Fruit. 3 
°. He may this Week gather his firft Produce 4 in 
the common Kind certainly; and if he have‘had | 
good Luck, as well as taken due Care, he = 
embellith them with one or two of the others: 
_ the worft, a Plate ‘of Strawberries is now an neved: 
able Sight, ‘and ‘they will have all their Beauty 
this Way, tho’ not the true Flavour: to that the 
Aur is neceffary, but not to the fwelling of the 
Pulp, or regular Figure. They will be-pale, but 
in ‘that there is nothing unpleafing; and if any of 
_ the Ci Kind ripen, thofe will have their Co- | 
dour. 
A Plate of thefe, ornamented Sith Leaves 
from the natural Strawberry Beds, and crown’d 
with if but one of the large Chili Kind, will give an 
Air of Summer. They. muft be gather’d about 
an Hour before they are eaten, that the Warmth 
of the Air in the Bed may go off, and they may | 
yet retain all their Fulnefs; and it will improve 
their Flavour greatly if .a very fmall Quantity of 
treble refin’d Sugar, beat to fine Powder, be 
fprinkled over them juft as they are fentin. This 
will not be perceiv’d by the Eye, nor particularly 
diftinguifh’d by the Tafte, but it will give the 
raw Feiee, in thefe artificially ry ripen’d: Strawberries, 
that Richnefs and Mellowmets it ‘otherwife mutt’ 
want. | 
_. We have hinted ‘to the Gardener’ before, Hoe 
much his Credit may be rais’d by a tight Manage- 
- hagement of gathering: and fending’ i in his Fruit, | 
#nd fhall not leave him binifortn’d 4 in any Article. 
With ‘thefe Strawberries from the Hot-Bed, he 
may fend in, from the forcing Frames, Apricots 
and Cherries. ‘This little Defert will pleafe, be- 
caufe of ‘the early — beyond all the Pomp of 
Summer. 
The Apricot, for ‘this Purpofe, is that naturally 
early Kind ‘call’d the Majculine; a fmall round 
Fruit of a brownifh Colour, and with but little of 
the true Flavour of the finer Kinds. : 
‘There is .another which fucceeds this Way; 
the tranfparent yellow, much preferable, but it 
requifés more Attention. “The Ma/culine naturally 
lofes a great Part of its Bloffoms; and the tranf- 
parent is liable to the fame Imperfedtion : they 
have the lefs Chance to efcape in this unnatural 
Manner of bringing them forward, but the Value 
of an Apri] Apricot makes Amends for the Pains. 
‘The Cherries for this Purpofe are of the Duké 
Kind: and it muft be own’d that neither thefe 
nor. the others have any thing like the-true Fla-. 
vour: but three Kinds of Fruit at fuch.a Seafon, 
if they are but eatable, make a great Appearance’ 
at a Table. 
PEORIA RAIA IO RIO RII RAOIOOHOX HOOK 
CH A P. 
II. 
The Care and TAA GOERE of the Fruit-Garden, 
ET the Gardener dhs Week look over all 
his Vines that are planted in the ufual Man- 
ner againit Walls : they will be now making their 
Spring Shoots; and, unlefs prevented, will wafte 
a great deal of that Nourifhment, intended - and 
wanted for the Fruit, in ufelefs and hurtful 
Branches. 
All thofe Shoots which ‘rife in wrong Places 
thould be rub’d off; and let him fee where two | be-neither exhaufted by other Things, -nor left to 
are produc’d from the fame Bud, that he may-rub— Brow hard and impenetrable. 
off.one: the ftrongeft muft be left and -by this 
Method, thus timely us’d, all the Nourifhment 
will go where it fhould, and the Fruit will be 
‘fuller and forwarder. 
This laft is an Article of the id Conte. | 
“quence, in ‘Refpect of Vines; for there are few 
the for- 
Years when Grapes ripen favourably : 
warder they are, the better is their Chance. The 
Branches being now laid clofe to the Walls, the 
bad Wood clear’d away, and nothing more left | 
than will be ufeful, the Juices will all be deriv’d 
to the right Place, the Sun has -its full Power, 
and nothing will be wanting that our Climate can 
give for the ripening of the Fruit. 
The Peach, Nectarine, ‘Apricot, and other Wall 
Fruit-Trees, are now coming forward apace, and 
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they mutt by all Means bg encourag’d, On the 
| Strength and Fuinefs of their pis will depend 
| the Quantity of the Fruit ; 
| if ftinted in Point of Nourifhment at this Time, 
| willbe infected with Infects. 
and even the Leaves, 
The great Point -is to keep their Roots ina dane | 
gorous State of Growth, and the Ground, where 
they run,.in aCondition to fupply them. Jt mut 
We have told the Gardener, that all Earth a 
that he is concern’d-with, grows hard and heavy 
by lying, that his Culture breaks and mellows it; 
| and.that as foon.as it is left, it grows by Degrees 
hard, and clofe again. We have ‘told ince, the 
Advantage of breaking it about, and.among the 
Roots of growing Plants, \and thefe are the gene- 
ral Rules upon which his Practice now is to be 
founded. 
He has at the due Seafon prun’d and: nail’d his 
Trees, and. drefs’d the Ground wherein they grow: 
let him now once-more break it: Weeds will rife 
in it, and ‘the Trees muft-be fo much the worfe 
fupply’d for all. the Nourifhment they draw: 
therefore let the whole Borders wherein they ftand, 
|-be dug up with a three-tin’d Fork, as we have 
directed 
