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Aueuft. the open Air, is very eafy, and very well known ; 
———— but ’tis, practifed in too carelefs and clumfy a 
Manner. To this is owing the ill State of the 
Plants; and to that the coming of thefe 
Infects. 
Whoever looks into the common Garden at 
this Time, will fee ftunted Chinefe Aftas, and 
even the French Marygolds, weak, dragling, and 
half ftarved : In thofe Places where more Attention 
has been fhewn them, they are in Proportion 
fo much better: but we feldom fee them in 
their due Perfection. Where they are weakeit and 
worft, they are conftantly moft infected with In- 
fects. | 
_ Let the Gardiner therefore, who fees the Effects 
of Want of Care this Seafon, guard againft it in 
Time for the next, by bringing the Plants for- 
ward with due Care, allowing them as much 
Room as we have ordered, and which is much 
more than is commonly allotted in their feveral 
Beds; and finally when they are to be brought 
into the open Air, by opening a Hole fufficiently 
large, and difpofing the Earth well about them. 
After this, frequent Waterings, and the Ufe of a 
Water that is of a due Temper are the great Articles. 
I have feen Plants of all thefe Kinds ftunted by 
‘Watering from a Pump, worfe than by Neglect of 
Watering ; and whenever Nature has received a 
Check, the Juices are vitiated, and the Infect Em- 
bryos hatch, 3 
This general Care being taken, let our Gardiner 
look over fuch particular Growths, as require a 
{eparate Management. | | 
The Layers of Carnations and Sweet Williams 
this Time be very forward; they muft be water’d 
once in three Days, and the beft Time 1s two 
Hours before. Sun-fet. | | 
Oftener than this would keep the Ground 
too wet, but unlefs Showers prevent the Labour, 
thus often it fhould always be done. 
Few are aware how much the Succefs of Layers 
depends upon keeping the Earth in a due and 
uniform Temper. To make it too wet at fome 
Times, and leave it to be dried again at others, 
is to invite and promote the fhooting of Fibres 
one Week, and another to leave them to be 
parched up and perifh: This is the common and 
unartful Method, but ’tis eafy to fee how wrong ; 
and to this Mifmanagement is owing the Lofs of 
many of the Layers in the tenderer Kinds ; and 
the Poornefs of a great Part of thofe which out- 
live the Mifchief. | 
The great Art in this Kind of Culture is to 
fecure the Layer in its Place; and to give that 
Degree of Moifture to the Mould, which will na- 
gurally make it ftrike Root; and continue the 
fame Temper in it till thofe Fibres which 
have been fo promoted to fhoot, have attained 
Strength and Firmneds. , | 
The tender Shrubs which were inoculated laft 
Month will require to have their Bandages now 
loofened, that the Sap may circulate freély.> * 
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to the 
freely the Juices are thrown up toward it when 
it is thus far fixed, the more certainly it will 
be united to the Stock. 
which were put early under the Mould, will by 
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At the fame Time there thould be given a Augult. 
good free Watering, and this will add greatly | 
Succefs of the Bud; for the more 
The firm Union of the two is the great 
Article of the Gardiner’s Care; and this is a 
Period at which it is more in his Power to 
promote it than at any other. 
Thefe Articles are what infure the Succefs 
of Gardening; and thefe the practical People 
keep to themfelves, even when they moft plau- 
fibly affect to difcover, for publick Benefit, the 
Secrets of their Art. | ae 
°Tis thus. Gardening, under all the fpecious 
Pretences of teaching it, is continued in the 
Hands of the mean and ignorant; and this has 
{topped the Progrefs of the Art in England. 
What we have learned from Experience, 
and feen practifed by the moft fuccefsful, we 
declare with Freedom ; and the Gardener has thus 
an Opportunity of knowing the little manual 
Part; without which general Knowledge is of 
very limited Ufe. - 
The Layers of the fineft Carnations will now 
be fit to take off. They muft be planted in 
{mall Pots, one Layer in each, and the Mould 
being gathered up carefully about them, they 
muft be watered, and fet in a fhady Place, 
till they have taken good Root. 3 
Every other Evening the Watering muft be 
repeated, and when the Plants are very well 
rooted, they muft be placed in a Situation open to cs 
the Morning Snn, and where there is a more free 
Ait 3 ee : 
In the Beginning of Oéober they muft be 
fet up to the Rim in the Ground, and fhel- 
tered by a floping Reed-hedge, as we have di- 
reGted for other tender Kinds: or if the old 
Method be followed, of defending them by 
a Hot-Bed Frame, a great deal of Care muft be 
taken to allow them Air at all Times when the 
Days are mild. There is no Difficulty in defend- 
ing them this Way from Frofts; but if they 
are drawn up weak, the Mifchief will never — 
be well recovered. — 
The bulbous Jris’s will now begin to fade in 
Leaf and Stalk, and the Gardener muft take this 
Opportunity of removing them. | 
The withering of all that is above Ground 
fhews the Roots to be in a State of Reft, and 
it is at that Time they bear to be taken up 
and removed to a new Place, or refrefhed with 
new Compott. | ie | 
The Opportunity muft be feized now it is 
offered; for after a very fhort Time, the Roots 
fend out their Fibres for the fucceeding Year, 
and ‘at the fame Time the Bud for the next 
Flower is form’d, and takes its flow but regu- 
lar Increafe: therefore if the Root be taken 
up, after this the Progrefs of Nature is im- 
peded, and the Flower for the next Year is 
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