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Care and Management of the Ground. 
\HE Borders being perfectly clean, the | This done in the Borders, let the Gardenet 
Plants ty’d up, and the Walks in Or- look again over his Orange Trees. We have told 
der, the great Attention of the Gardener for thofe him what Fruit they are which ate moft likely to 
‘1 the common Ground, muft be to defend them | come to Good; and he fhould now give them 
from Drought. If. he now fpare the needful the laft Overlooking, to fee which muft be taken 
Labour of Watering, all his former Skill and | off. Oranges may require to be thined upon the 
Toil will be in a great Meafure fruftrated. Let Tree as much as any other Fruit. : 
‘him obferve to give this all over the Plants; but | = Their Excellence is in their obtaining a due 
to do it carefully, and from a Pot that has a fine | Growth; and this they cannot do in our Climate 
Nofe. | if they are produced on weak Parts of the Tree; 
In general, Plants that are taking their Growth | or if, in tlie very beft Parts, they crowd one an- 
mutt be allowed more Water than thofe which are | other. | 
jutt going to flower. Every one knows how much Therefore whetever an Orange ftands upon a 
‘the Flavour of Fruit may be impaired by too | weak Shoot, it fhould be taken off; and where 
much Watering ; and tis the fame in the Scent | two or more ftand too clofe to | one another, the 
_ of Flowers, and in fome Degree in their Colours. | weakeft and leaft promifing muft be pulled away. © 
Many elegant Plants are fpoiled by the Gardener’s | There is more Beauty in a Dozen well ripen’d 
not knowing, or not obferving this: fome Wa- | Oranges upon a Tree, than in a Hundred that 
tering is needful to fwell the Buds; but when the | have {tarved one another, : 
Flowers are opening, the lefs the better. The Diftance at which we direct the Fruit to 
be left, will alfo thew it to Advantage; for the 
golden yellow is never fo well feen as when in 
Contraft with the full and fine green Leaves. 
The Pine-Apple Plants will at this Time re- 
quire a particular Care : the Fruit will be ripening 
faft upon them, and there is an Advantage in the 
early Time, which muft not be neglected. The 
Plants from which this Fruit is cut will readily — 
produce Stickers; and thofe which come éarlieft 
are vaftly the beft, for they will be got off before 
Winter. | | 
To promote the Tendency there is in Nature 
to this, as foon as. the Fruit is cut off, let the 
Plant be fet in a warm Bed, and from Time to 
Time watered ; this muft be done more mode-~- 
| rately at firft, and more largely.afterwards ,; and 
by this Means of Warmth and Moifture there 
will be a Certainty of Succefs. 
This Week lay fome Branches of the {feveral 
Kinds of Paffion-Flowérs, and of the more deli- 
cate Jafmines. The beft Shoots to lay are thofe 
of the frefheft Growth, and a good Joint fhould 
always be buried in the Mould. The Affiftance 
of a Hot-Bed is needful to fome of the tenderer 
Kinds; and all muft have the Advantage of very 
mellow and fine Mould, and muft be often wa- 
tered. 
The beft Water for all Flowering Plants, 1s 
that of a fhallow Pond, and which is open to the | 
Sun; and the beft Time of giving it is two Hours 
before Sun-fet. ate ae oi 
It fhould always be a Rule, that the Water 
ufed to a Plant be fomewhat warmer than the 
Temperature of the Mould; for if in the other 
Extream, it naturally chills the tender Fibres ; 
and ’tis very difficult to make it exactly the fame. | 
Every Day let the Gardener look over thofe 
Plants which ftand for Seed; and as the Heads 
or Pods harden, let him cut them off, and lay | 
them with Care upon a papered Shelf to dry. — 
of the Plant at once, when there are many Pods 
upon it; but in this Cafe, the Seed in thofe 
which flowered laft, will not be ripened; and 
probably that in the Pods following ‘the firft 
Flowers, will be loft; and this is the beft Seed of 
the Plant. ‘ Sah 
From what I have feen of the Appearance, 
Difference, and Growth of Seedlings, I am con- 
vinced that the Number of bad Plants often pro- 
duced from Seed, depends principally. upon this. 
Article. In the Way here direéted, none of the 
Seed will be loft, and none will be preferved but 
fuch as is in a Condition of growing. 
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