SECT* V. 



OF A GARDEN* 



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to defer that till id -morrow which may be done to day 



Procraflinatlon is of ferious confequence in 'gar* 



dening ; and negle£t of times and feafons is fruitful of 

 di .appointment and complaint. It will often happen, 

 indeed, that a gardener cannot do what he would ; but 

 if he does not do what he can, he will be moft juftly 

 blamed, and perhaps cenfured by none more than 



HIMSELF. 



SECTION V. 



OF PROPAGATION. 



PLANTS are propagated by feeds, fuckers, flips, off- 

 fets, diviflons, cuttings, layers, and g raffs. 

 By feed is the moft general method of propagation, 

 and plants raifed any other way are feldom fo fine* 

 Thofe plants from feed which have never been re- 

 moved, are commonly handfomer, and come forwarder, 

 than thofe that have been tranfplanted, provided they 

 were fownin a proper foil and (ituation. 



As upon feed being right in kind and good in nature, 

 depends the fuccefs, care fhould be taken to procure 

 the belt, and no temptation fufrered to prevail for the 

 life of an inferior kind, or of one only fufpected of 

 being fo, if it can be helped ; for to cultivate a foil,, 

 and ufe a w 7 rong or defective feed knowingly, is folly 

 indeed! Large feeds may have the doubtful picked out. 



The largefi feed of the kind, plump and found, is- 

 to be chofen, being w 7 eil ripenen and kept from injuries 



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