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the Flower Garden at this Seafon as in any other 
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Care and M. anagement of the Ground. 
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J OTHING adds fo much Luftre to Beauty ; many flowering Plants as to Fruit Trees, and they 
N as perfect Cleanlinefs; tis feen ina Garden | are expofed to the fame Ravage. 
as well as on all other Occafions, and it is a Maxim 
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to be regarded carefully at this Seafon. 
The 
Borders are full of Flowers, and all looks gay and | moft eafily deftroyed. 
The Caterpillars are the moft mifchievous of 
all; and they are, with tolerable Attention, the 
They will difcover them- 
rich ; the Gardener fees the Reward of his long felves to be upon the Plants by the gnawn Parts 
preceding Toil, therefore let him not fail to ufe 
every little Addition to fet it before the Eye in its 
full Glory. 
of the Leaves ; and as they have no better Way» 
of hiding themfelves than by keeping at the back © 
Part of the Leaves, it requires no more Trouble 
Let him begin by going round the Plants in 
Flower, triming each with an unwearied Hand. 
If an irregular Shoot appears let him take it off: 
Nature will return him an equal Quantity in a 
better Place, and he will gain by what in the im- 
mediate Act feems Lofs. If a decay’d Leaf be 
feen any where let it be taken off; and let ‘no 
Flower remain which is paft its full Glow of 
Beauty. We have given the Reafon before. _ 
As Birds will continue laying if her Egos 
be remov’d, fo the Plant will fend out new Shoots 
for flowering when the firft are taken off ; bor if 
thefe be left, they will ripen Seeds, which is Nature’s 
ultimate End in all her Works; and as no more 
than the turning them up, to find the Devourers. 
When little Infeéts crowd upon the Tops or 
among: the Buds, they muft be attacked with 
Water ftrongly impregnated with Tobacco Stalks 
and Soot : this is deftructive of the Infe@s with- 
out hurting the Plants ; but there are fome Kinds 
/ that are not affected by it. In this Cafe there is 
no Way but to cut off that Part of the Plant, 
and truft to Nature for a new Supply. i 
This is a Seafon at which there is nothing 
againft a quick Growth but Want of Showers, 
The Plant will flower later 
than otherwife, but this, far from a Difadvantage 
in the Summer Flowers, is often a Thing very 
deftroy now; but this Operation will cut up the | defirable. 
firft Shoots, of whatever Kind the inceffant La- 
bour of Nature may have {cattered there ; and at 
the fame Time it will give an Air of Cleannefs 
and of Cv'ture to the Ground: nor is the Benefit 
confined to thefe Articles. The Mould will be 
more difpofed to receive and detain the Dews and 
Showers, by being thus broken, and the Plants 
will be feen with double Beauty becaufe of the 
clear Space between. 
After this Care the next is that of watering ; | 
and all that remains befide in regard to the flower- 
ing Plants is the Deftruction of Infects, 
Fiow the Waterings are to be conduéted we 
have fhewn already; and the more particular the 
Gardiner is in that Refpeét, thé-better will be the | 
fucceeding Bloom. 
As to the Infe&t Tribe they are as numerous in 
are in a weakly State, 
do. 
This is the Remedy for that very troublefome 
Malady of the Summer Plants; but a much bet- 
ter Method is to prevent it, 
We have faid before that Infects ‘are found in 
general on the weakeft Plants ; and are the Effe& 
of that Mifchief they are fuppofed to caufe. 
It will be found true in this Inftance : of the 
tender Annuals now fubje& to be infected with 
them, they will be feen univerfally on the: 
it is otherwife very apt to 
Part of the Ground, and they will be as mif- 
chievous. : 
The Leaves are as ufeful and as necefflary to 
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of his Plants. 
The Method of 'raifing thefe tender Plants in 
Hot-Beds, and by Degrees removing them into 
the 
and that the careful Gardiner can very well fupply. 
