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A COMPLEAT BODY 
Sept. 
This Plan fhould be afcertained by a Scale, and 
marked with the Points of the Compafs; and the 
- Defigner may then fortn his Diftribution upon the 
Paper, and afterwards transfer it to the Ground. 
This is the Seafon for putting the Seminary in 
firft Order, and ’tis therefore we deferred to this 
Place, the Directions for its Management in the 
original Defign. | 
The Plan of the Ground being laid down, let 
the Defigner, before he chufe a Part for the Nur- 
fery, confider its Importance, and the Requifites 
‘to the Succefs of thofe Things which are to be 
raifed on it: he will find the Situation and 
Soil fo effential to Succefs, that he will know the 
Profperity of his whole Work depends upon it. 
In this Part are to be raifed all Kinds of Flowers 
from Seed, all Foreft Trees and flowering Shrubs 
from their Seeds, Layers, or Cuttings ; and Stocks 
for the grafting and buding of Fruit Trees. In 
this Manner, he will find how much the other 
Parts depend on this ; ; and though he knows that 
any Shape or Form of the Piece of Ground will 
do, yet he will perceive there is no trifling with 
regard to the Situation and Expofure. 
Let the Piece on this Plan be open to the South 
Faft, and defended by Buildings, high Walls, or 
thick Plantations from the North. If it be ir- 
regular, in refpect to the Surface, that is no Ob- 
jection : different Degrees af Expofure fuit diffe- 
rent Things, and it will by that means afford a 
juft and ufeful Variety. 
Let it be remembered, that in treating of the 
Varieties of Flowers, the Quantity of Seedlings 
has been declared the true Source of Expeétation ; 
and let the Piece of Ground be therefore chofen 
larger than the common Cuftom, in Pro- 
portion to the Garden it is to fupplys that 
there may be Room for this Multiplicity of the 
ee young Prodnce. 
Let there be Shelter againft furious Winds, 
and Shade from the full Sun of Noon Day. 
_ ‘This is always in the Gardiner’s Power, for there 
are Trees enough which grow freely, and will in 
avery fhort Time fupply that needful Purpofe. 
Let the Soil be a good Pafture Mould, and in 
the digging it at firft let the Gardener obferve 
what Parts are dry, and where there is moft 
Moifture, marking them for the neceffary Pur- 
pofes. No Manure mutt be ufed for this Part of 
the Ground; for it muft not be fo rich as that in 
which the Plants are finally to ftand. 
There will require Vigour in this Part, 
though Richnefs would be a Fault; and 
this Kind of Strength is to be found in the 
Frefhnefs of the Earth, or obtained by good 
Tillage Ina Place where there have been no 
large or deep-rooting Growths, the Mould under 
the Turf is unexhaufted, and its Frefhnefs will 
anfwer all the Purpofes of Nurfery Culture. 
When it has been impoverifhed by other 
Growths, the Way to-refrefh it again is, by a 
good digging, and a proper Kind of Fallow ; 
throwing up the Ridges Eaft and Weft, AX 
breaking and turning hein up afrefh after they 
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have lain to receive the Influence of the Air. 
The wet Parts muft be referved for fibrous ~~“: 
rooted Plants; the dry for bulbous and tube- 
rous Flowers, and that which is deep and 
of a middling Nature for-Trees. In Soils which 
are too dry, the Trees will grow flowly; but 
in fuch as are moift they will not continue 
| found. 
~ The Piece: of Gauitd thus thot, and ‘its 
Qualities underftood, it muft be trenched two 
Foot deep; and in doing this, all Roots of pe- — 
rennial Weeds mutt se picked out carefully. 
| This fhould be the Bufinefs of the prefent 
Week; and it fhould lie about three Weeks 
after in that Manner to mellow and fweeten ; 
and to receive the’ Influences of the Sun and 
Air. At the End of that Time let it be all 
laid level, and marked out into Divifions, Beds, 
and Quarters, according to its Nature and the in- 
tended Service. 
Let none of the Beds be broader than four 
Foot and a half; for the Convenience of weeding : 
and let the Quantity of each Kind that will be 
wanted, be the Rule for the Proportion of their 
Length: >; 
The Ground, — levell’d and divided, will be 
ready for planting and fowing; and the Seafon 
for that Work in each Kind will be come. : 
Kernels and Seeds of the feveralSpecies may now 
be put into the Ground; and Stocks raifed elfe- 
where, may be now alfo planted. 
The Gardener knows that’ he is here to 
raife all biennial and perennial Flowers. 
fome Beds muft be at the due Time plarited 
the Off-fets of bulbous Roots, preferving them 
there till they are of a Bignefs for the Flower 
Garden : 
Seedlings for gaining their due Growth and 
Strength for flowering. The delicate Way 
is to let thofe Kinds which are lafting, flower 
once here, that it may be known what they 
are; ‘béfore they) are removed 
Garden. 
The. Methods of cudetsing their feveral 
Articles, and their proper Times, we have given 
in the’ Courfe of the Work; they are sain re- 
capitulated here to give a general View of the 
Ufe and Purpofe of the Seminary; that the 
Gardener may not ,by forgetting fome Articles, 
be induced to allow it too little a Compafs. 
Water is an effential Thing to the Seminary, 
for all tranfplanted Roots require ic in Abun- 
dance; and Care muft be taken near fome cen- 
tral Part of the Ground to have a Pond for 
retaining it, that there may not only be always 
enough in Readinefs, but it may be of a Kind 
and ‘Temper fit for the Service. 
The Seminary fhould be concealed from the 
Garden, but the neater it is to the middle of 
that Ground the better; for the Removal of 
Plants out of this Part into the Borders will 
be continual, and the lefs Way they are carried 
the better they will always fucceed. 
Care muft be taken that the Ground ‘be well 
fenced 
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in other Beds muft be planted out 
into the 
Sept. 
