puget 
OF GARDENING. 
The Florift knows the Expediency of that 
Practice ; and he may be affured, the farne Rule 
holds good in regard to thefe Plants: the Prim- 
rofe, Cowflip, and Auricula, are nearly allied in 
Nature; and as their Time of flowering is the 
fame, or little different: their Buds are formed 
for that Purpofe at or near the fame Period. On 
this depends the Propriety of the Practice we 
have named. 
There will alfo fetute anetbee Benefit fen the 
Ufe of. common Pafture Earth at this Time of 
Sree Bie ol 
POMON 4, 
HE Care of. the ripening Fruit eile 
| at this Time all the Gardener’s Attention. 
Every Morning and Evening, and after every 
anfwer this needful Purpote: 
that they keep in their Places; “where a Branch ? 
- has blown out of its right Situation, by the ftart- 
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planting them, which is that when they come Auguit. 
afterwards to be forted, and the beft Pisnts re- 
moved’ into’ a Bed: of Compoft; the Richnefs 
of that Ground in Comparifon’ with the Poors - 
nefs of plain Pafture Earth, will feed them in a 
fuller Manner, and enlarge, and greatly 1 improve | 
the Flowers. 
\ 
Thefe Things done among the particular Kinds, 
“Jet the Gardener conclude the Work of the pre- 
fent Week in this Quarter, by a thorough — 
ing in every Part of the Ground. | 
DP. oad 
or the FRUIT-GARDEN. 
but let him now feé 
Shower, let him look after Snails;. and every | ing of the Nails Ri held it to the Wall, or 
Day let him’ renew the Sugar and Water in thofe any other Violence, it leaves fome Part without 
Vials we direct him to hang ‘upon every Part of | the Shade its Leaves were deftined to fupply, and 
the Trees. _ | Sives too much cover to fome other. - 
ra me ae 
It will be proper alfo for him to 3 Hibs ‘Op. 
Scarecrows of Feathers, or Wings of Birds, or 
entire Birds with the Entrails bin out, to fright 
away the Devourers of that Kind; and if they are, 
in {pite of this, troublefome, he mutt place Lime 
“Twigs about the Trees, and now and then fright 
them away by Difcharges of a Piftol. 
They do more Hurt than is imagined ; they 
peck and wound ten of the Fruit for one they 
eat; and wherever their Beaks have. made the 
Way, the leffer Devourers are fure to follow. 
At the fame Time that thefe Methods are 
‘taken to prevent Deftruction by Infects, and 
other Devourers, Care muft be had that no 
Accident prevent the ripening of what his proper 
thinning, and fubfequent Protection, have kept 
upon the Tree. — | 
To ripen well, the Fruit requires a due Degree 
of Shade and Shelter, but nothing more: too 
‘much or too little Sun will be equally hurt- 
ful. 3 e 
The Gardener has taken Care in the Pruning 
and Management of the Branches, that as much 
Wood, and as many Leaves are left on as will 
Grow th of thefe, 
This mutt be reduced to ‘Order : : and if any 
Foulnefs appear upon the Tree, or any Infeéts 
of the Caterpillar Kind upon the Leaves, they 
muft be pick’d.of. 
-In DE Cafes it is neceffary to bud the Fruit 
Trees after they are brought into the Gardens 
and when this has been done, | there will bus : 
a: particular Attention to them. | 
The Gar dener knows how apt budded Stocks 
are to fhoot. from below ; and that this is always 
hurtful, as thofe Shoots. can be of no ee 
and as they rob. the Bud. of Nourifhment : this 
Accident will be much more likely to stem 
to Trees budded in their Place in the Garden ; 
where the Soil is. better than in Nurferies, and 
where the Trees have more Room, and more Op- 
portunities of quick Growth. 
Thefe Shoots muft be carefully edcen off, that 
all this Nourifhment may go to the Buds; -and 
the fame Methods taken to promote the free 
as of all other Trees in the 
Garden, by keeping down Weeds, and an: 
the Surface of the Ground. 
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