«May. 
a great deal of Trouble. 
OF GARDENING 
In the Evenings they muft be;clos’d'tokeep out 
the Cold that will. attend even our warmeft Sea- 
fons; and in the Middle of bright Days, when 
there are no. Clouds; :and. the Sun’ has all. its. 
elfe it 
Power,,-the Glaffes: here. out be thadeds, 
wou’d exhauft too much, -* 
-> Many of the» moft: clement Kinds. in, elie aiDe-| 
partment will nowsrequire tranfplanting... We 
have directed. fuch as have been ‘rais’d’ from, Seed, 
“to be planted in little Pots, and -fet,‘in the Bed. 
Thefe;~as' they encredfe «in: Bignefs, ‘will. require | 
more ‘Compost for. their Rests and: this ‘is the 
Time’ to give it. 
The Compoft, for cual we “have divested : we 
always advife more to be made’than is immediately 
wanted, for it will be requit’d afterwatds; On, inet Jetit be fet upright’ in the Middle of the larger 
: | Pot, with’ its Ball undifturb’d; and let the frefh 
The Gardener dae that thofe testa ai ahave | 
Occafions, and it gets,Good by lying. / 
directed him to make for the particular Plants, of | 
which we have treated, are not peculiar to.them. 
Tis with thefe artificial as with’ natural.Soils: 
each Plant has its proper Kind, but not aera one 
a peculiar Mixture. 
As the wild Plants iiabe: erow in-one ml Soil, 
a wet orie; and, on the contrary, the Plants na- 
tive of damp rich Mould, would wither foon in 
Sand, but will yet.grow in. many Mixtures which 
have. that general Character ; ; fo. among. thofe |: 
| Plants. we raife. from. foreign, Seeds, each has a 
ind of Soil in which alone i it will grow, tho’ it be 
‘not limited to any one particular Mixture of that 
Quality. 
Thus. the Compe being. ipdadood, in Re 
fpeck. of their general Characters of ight, rich, 
dry, mellow, and the. like, that made for one 
Plant, may on Occafion. be us’d for any other 
which is naturally the Produce of a Soil of that 
general Nature 5 tho’ it would be F olly to attempt. 
the raifing it in one of a contrary Kind. 
This. rightly underftood, will fave the Gardener : 
‘It would be endlefs to 
make and keep up one particular Compott , for 
every Species he raifes. . Thofe we dire&t for the 
feveral Kinds here treated of, will ferve all others ; ‘J 
and in the prefent Inftance, the Gardener may | 
take, inftead of the particular Compott made for 
that Plant, if it be exhaufted, any, one of thofe 
of the fame general Kind. ae 7 
Let him bring in, for this Purpofe, a Pot of 
proper Size, et filling it three Parts with the i 
Compoft, fet it up to the Rim in the Bed in the 
Stove. 
duet, it, land «thus three Days: in that Time. 
esx be loft, by the Removal. 
BE 
May. 
‘the Pot and Mould will both be brought to the ——— 
fame ‘Temper with the Air of the Bora without 
whieh, the Plant would. certainly be check’d, and 
«Let the Pot of : Corhpott, and: that. containing : 
ste Plant, be taken ‘out of the Bed in the Evening 
of a mild Day, and the Compoft pour’d out of 
thenew Pot, except as much’ as will lie an Inch 
candvhalf ‘thick at the Bottom. | 
*o'Then let ‘the Plant be clean’d, r Stem wip’d, 
he ‘decay’d' Leaves, if any, pick’d off, and the. 
Shoots, where needful, fhorten’d. Let it be taken 
out of the fimall Por! with the Ball of Earth en-- 
> tire, and the Fibres on the’ Surface trim’d : 
then 
Compoft be carefully pour’d in round it, ‘till the 
‘Vacancy is fill’d, and the Ball covered about three 
Quarters of an Jnch." This done, let the Whole 
have ‘a gentle Watering, and the new Pot be fet 
| into the Bed ‘as the other was. 
| ‘Check perceiv’d from this in the Growth even of 
| the tendereft Kinds. . 
will alfo live in another, tho’ they would, perifh in | . 
There will be no 
‘This’ done, let the Plants in general be care- 
fully looked over. The Gardener ‘has been fuffi- 
ciently caution’d againft fuffering them to be foul, 
and he muft now repeat his Labours to prevent it. 
The Dutt which gathers on their Leaves choaks 
up the natural and neceflary Pores, and the Plant 
‘wants their Service. 
| fickly : 
If this be permitted it grows 
the Juices ftagnate, and when they ftag- 
nate they putrify: this makes them Food for In- 
feéts, and wherever that Foodis, the little Myriads 
| come. 
fame here. | 
, Duft, -which. CbERE. the Pores of thefe tender . 
We fee it in in puepron Trees, and ’tis the 
Plants, has the fame Effect with Cold, that ftag- 
| nates the Juices in thofe hardier Shrubs and Trees. 
Infeéts follow : the Vulgar have hence thought 
them, generated of the Duft; but ’tis the fame 
Thing to the Gardener, whether the Infeéts are 
produc’d from this Accident, or brought thither 
by, it. Let him take Care to clean off she Foulnefs 
whenever he: perceives. it. ! 
Let the Mould on: he laa in: “ah the Pots , 
| be -broke “and, refrefh’d by a fmall Addition of 
fome Compoft: of ‘like Kind ; and let the feveral 
Plants;, according to’ their Nature, have now — 
and then a . gentle Watering, from a fine-nos’d 
Pte: 
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The Management of rhe N UR s E R ¥,* for this WL. ang 
PAHE Bufinefs of Beartpldnding! which we 1 
_ have order’d in the Stove, may be continued 
alfo in the open Air, for certain Kinds, and on 
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particular Occafions. In the Nurfery of Flower- 
‘ing Plants for the next’ Year, this Bufinefs is to be 
manag’d with due-Cate, © 
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