2 Sept. 
_ ——— Mifchief by the breaking in of Vermin; and 
Every Year the Beds where the Roots are 
muft be dug up: the Time is diferent accord- 
there fhould always be a Number of Traps fet | ing to their feveral Natures, but once in the 
for the creeping; and Lime Twigs, or Trap Courfe of twelve Months it muft be-done, fixing 
fenced, for no Part of a Garden is fo liable to 
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Cages for the flying Devourers. upon the Time when the Roots are moft in ja 
The Seeds and Shoots of Plants and Trees never 
fail to call thefe Creatures together, and they will 
dig for them into the Ground, or tear them up by 
the young Shoot, as foon as they appear. 
The Labour of many Months, and Produce 
of the remoteft Parts of the Earth, may thus be 
the Food of a‘Moufe, or a Sparrow; unlefs thefe 
Cautions are ufed to prevent the Mifchief. 
. Finally, let the Ground be fo difpofed that it 
may at Times have the Advantage of Reft, and 
a kind of Fallow. | 
Nothing in the Culture of Plants is better 
known, than that the fame Piece of Ground will 
not from Year to Year fupply and fupport the 
fame Growth, in Vigour. Changing the Plants 
from one Bed to another is a common Remedy 
for this; and fome finding that infufficient, are | 
at the Trouble of removing the Soil, and bring- 
ing in frefh at every Plantation. There is a Way 
much eafier, and of equal Advantage. 
We have direéted the marking and dividing 
the Ground into Beds, with Alleys between, and 
there fhould never be in a Nurfery any other | . 
: are all this Part requires in Summer; and in 
Walks than fuch Alleys; no Grafs, no Gravel, | 
nor Sand Paths. Thefe anfwer the Purpofe ; for 
it is not a Part of the Garden intended for Walks 
of Pleafure; and thefe fhould be dug up every 
Year, and made into Beds; and the Part that 
was Beds into Alleys. : | 
"This is very eafy; it is attended with no parti- 
cular Expence, and it fully anfwers the Purpofe. | € | 
» and.| fiftance of a Seminary ; and he fees at once be- 
“The Trouble of drawing new Lines is all 
the Ground by this means, though it always wears 
the fame Face, yet will be in a conftant Courfe of 
‘Change-and Succeffion.. — 
State of Reft. It is the Cuftom to break up 
the Bed; and when it has been well dug, to 
plant the Roots in it again. Inftead of this let 
the Bed, and the adjoining Alley, be dug up 
together ; and the Alley be marked out where 
the Bed was before. : 
- The former Alley will by this means be the 
Bed, or will make at leaft a great Part of it: 
and as this confifts of Mould on which nothing 
has grown for a full Year, it will be in a Con- 
dition of Frefhnefs; and that which was the 
Bed, will by this Means have alfo a Year of 
Repofe. _ : | | 
Mr. Tun, who happily applied Reafon and 
good Senfe to the Culture of Land, found by 
this Means that the fame Piece of Ground would. 
nourifh Year after Year the fame Crops: and 
there is the Proof of Experience fot it in this 
Article. | : 
Such is to be the Care of the Seminary, and. of 
feveral Kinds will be the Growths planted or raifed 
‘in it. “ton 
The comimon Cate of Weedings and Watering 
Winter, all that is needed farther is the fhel- 
tering and defending the young Plants of the 
tenderer Kind by Mats drawn over the Beds, or 
warmer Covering laid about the Roots of the 
Plants and Trees. | ae | 
The Gardener fees by this Review, that no 
Garden can be kept in order without the Af> 
fore him all that is effential concerning it. This 
is the Time for fixing upon the Spot, and pre~ 
paring the Ground. | | 
CHAP. If. 
Of the OR 
PAATLE Method of planting Fruit Trees againft 
Walls and in Efpaliers, gives the finer 
Kind a natural and advantageous Place in the 
‘Garden; but befide thefe, there fhould always be 
an Orchard. ee 
The Produce of the Wall and Efpalier, Trees 
is principally for the Defert, the Kitchen requires 
its Provifion alfo, and that is made from Standard 
or Orchard Trees. 
Cyder is alfo an Article in many 
oreat Confideration; and Perry requires only to 
be more: known, to give it the Preference over 
many expenfive Wines, 
Thefe Liquors are made from the Fruit of | gentle Afcent, 
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CHAR D 
| ftandard Trees; and where any Thing of this 
Kind is intended, ‘the Orchard muft have more 
‘Extent in Proportion. ig fents eage 
If the South Eaft Part of thé Ground referved 
ftom the laying down of the Pleafure Garden 
be not occupied by the Seminary, there is. no 
Afpect fo good for the Orchard: if that can- 
“not be had, a Spot muft be chofen that is de- 
fended from violent Winds, yet open to a. free 
Places of | Air; and which has many Hours Sun in the 
Day. . 
It is a Thing of great Advantage to plant an 
Orchard upon a Piece of Ground which has a 
iy Se es 
The Air blows naturally more 
