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-Growths; ; and he changes the Crops. In Gardens, 
in which the Roots fhould be taken up; and when 
and, if there be Need, a Refrefhment of fome 
rooted Plants; ~ 
the Purpofe; and the Roots being planted in with { 
Care, will thrive as if in a new Soil. 
There is not any thing in the Culture of Plarits 
that has more employ’d the Attention of the Cu- 
rious, or appears more effential to the practical 
Hands, than this renewing of the Soil for the 
Support of a like Growth. It depends on this 
Principle, thas. a Plant rais’d to a finer State by 
Culture, will degenerate again, if left in the 
fame Ground. ‘This is an unqueftionable Truth ; 
and to ‘prevent this, the Gardener renews the 
Soil, 
The Farmer finds the fame Condition in his 
where the Quantity of Mould is little, it is re- 
mov’d; in Fields, where that is impracticable, the | 
Crop is chang’d. ‘The Land that will no longer 
fupport a Growth of one Kind, will anfwer very 
well for another; and the fame Mould, which in 
a Garden is remov’d becaufe unfit for one Kind of 
Plant, thrown into a different Border, will ferve 
forme other. 
Mr. Tutt, the mnt inquifitive of all our Wri- 
ters on Hufbandry, affirms, that good Tillage | 
will anfwer the Purpofe of a Change of Soil; and 
by what I have found in Gardening, a pteat 
deal is to be done the fame Way. The fame 
Mould which is remov’d, will anfwer beyond what 
might be expected, if well wrought and put in 
again: the digging out and removing, and 
making it up into a Bed for fome other Kinds of 
Plants, will make it anfwer tolerably again for 
the fame. 
What Mr. T ULL te afferted in tegard to Huf- 
bandry, will not exactly hold in Gardening ; but it 
comes very near it. 
Some Plants will require every Year an abfolute 
frefh Soil, others need have the old only recruited ; 
and in other Cafes plain Digging alone will anfwer 
the Purpofe. Thefe may be call’d the three Sta- 
_ ges of Improvement in the Soil, and one or other | 
“ef them fhould never be omitted. 
There is a Time when every Plant is in a State 
of reft; this is juft after the Seafon of its full 
Bloom: the old Leaves fade, and foon after new 
Shoots rife in many Kinds; in all, new Fibres are 
juft after thot from the Root. 
_ The Time before the thooting of thefe is that 
this is done, the Off-fets fhould be feparated, or 
the otherwife. encreas’d Parts taken off: at the 
fame Time the Bed fhould be thoroughly dug; 
new Soil wrought in among it. 
all but the moft delicate-Kinds. 
The clean’d Roots are to be planted again di- 
rectly ; and their new Fibres -finding a frefh 
broken Mould; will pufh with Vigour, and lay the 
Foundation for a fine Blootn next Seafon. 
fhould be done now for the Kinds we have jut 
nam’d; and in Autumn for the perennial fbrous- 
This docs for 
We have mentioned, and fhall mention, utider 
the fucceeding particular Heads, all thofe Plants 
which require to have the whole Soil chang’d; 
and for the others, this Digging alone, or with 
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the Affiftance of. a little Refrefhment of new 
Mould, anfwers the Purpofe. 
This Week, if the Weather be diy, will be a 
proper Time for taking out of the Ground thofe 
Hyacinth Roots we directed the Garderier to lay 
fideways under the Mould for fwelling. 
Let them be wip’d clean, and fpread upon a 
Mat in a Room where there is a thorough Air; 
and where the Sun does not come. J.et them be 
turn’d every Day, till they are well harden’d, and 
then put up in Papers, in a fhallow Drawer; 
where they are to be kept till the Time of Plant- 
now ard then exarhined, to fee that they. keep 
from Mouldinefs. If at any Timé a Tendency 
to this is perceiv'd, they muft be fpread out 
June, 
ing in Autumn: but in this Place they muft be. 
again upon tlie Mat, and often tutn’d, till they 
are paft the Danger. 
We have dretied the Gardéntet to brig for- 
ward his Carnations for Bloom, with all Pure and _. 
Attention, They muft now be examined from 
Day to Day, for many of them will be {welling 
for the Flower. 
The Carnation is oiiginally coritain’d = in 
a double Cup; the outer one is form’d of four 
little fcaly Leaves, and rifés immediately from the 
‘Stalk; the inner one is large, long, of a cylin- 
dric Form, and is nip’d j in five Places at the Top. 
The {mall outer Cup is calculated only for de- 
fending the Bafe of this inner one, which contairfs _ 
and defends the young Flower. 
This innet Cup Gardeners call the Pod: it is ari 
itnproper Ferm, for Pod is properly the Name of 
a Seed-veffel ; but a8 it is appropriated in this 
‘Cafe, it muit be explain’d. This Pod will, at 
the prefent Seafon, require the great Attention of 
the Gardener. 
The Petals in the fine finds are véry nutherous; 
and the great Beauty of their Difpofition rifes 
from their Opening regularly. Nature has pro- 
moted this by -the five Indentings at its Edges 
but if they be not open’d farther, in the Condi- 
tion to which Culture brings the Plant, the Mul- 
tiplicity of the Petals will force them out irregu: 
larly on one Side; and the Flowers lofe their Tegu> 
lar Form, which is, in the Eye of the judicious 
Florift, one great Article of its Beauty. 
The common Way is to open tio of three 
Slits in the Pod s but Nature is a better Director. 
Let the Gardener; with a fine Pair of Sciffars; | 
open all five of the natural Indentings, about one 
third lower than naturally in the Pod, and obferve; 
a Day or two after, whether this be fufficient : if 
hot; *tis eafy to fhip them down 4 little farther, 
The Care fhould be to give Room for the Petals, 
without deftroying the Pod : Nature interided i it for 
a very good Service. : 
The Petals in this Flower have lotig narrow 
Bafes; and the Ufe of this firm long Cup is te 
keep them together. So much of it fhould be 
preferv’d entire at the Bottom as will anfwer this 
Purpofe, while thé Top is fo far open’d as to give 
Way to an equal Spreading of the Petals. . 
This Week continue the Work of T rarifplant 
ing out of their Seed-Beds the perennial fibrous- 
rooted Flowers; as alfo the biennial Kind: they 
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