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and cutting blafts and winds that happen 

 in the fpring. 



At a third feafon, you will fee him open- 

 ing his drains to fecure hinifelf from thofe 

 impetuous floods that fall in the fummer ; 

 and by and by plying the water-pot with 

 an equal vigour, to fatisfy his thirfty plants 

 from the fcorchings of the autumn ; fo 

 that were a foreigner (from a climate more 

 fettled than this is) to be here, what a la- 

 byrinth would he find himfelf in for a great 

 while ? 



Nor is it hard labour alone that will do ; 

 that great variety of feeds, and the diffe- 

 rent feafons in which they are to be fbwn, 

 the different pofitions and foils for Gar- 

 dens, added to a continual preparation 

 and forefight for what may befall him, how 

 he fliall fupply the kitchen in this, that, 

 or the other part of the year ; and with 

 what he fliall fill this, that, or the other 

 divifion or quarter, when the crop that is 

 now on is gone off; all thefe, I (ay, muft be 

 the labour of the brain, and the effed of 

 due confideration only; and indeed, upon 

 due refledions on this affair, I can't help 

 confidering a good Gardiner both as a phi- 

 lofopher and a politician, and one whofe 

 employ ought to place him very near the 

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