The Tra£ikdl Kitchen Gardiner, 



and trees, to nourifh them, and then 

 by frefh and fucceflive degrees of heat^ 

 that nourifhment is fo digefted as to turn 

 into the fubftancc of plants themfelves, 

 by methods we may reafonably guefs at^ 

 but which is really known only to the 

 Great Arehited and Condudor of all 

 things. 



I have already, in my pradical trea^ 

 tife of fruit gardening, given a plan 

 and defign of the method of watering 

 a potagery 5 which had it been executed 

 in the manner it is defign'd, would 

 have been as ufeful a thing as any in 

 the whole compafs of gardening; and I 

 have alfo in this given another plan of 

 the fame kind, where water may not 

 be fo plentiful as it is in the other : For 

 as water is fo neeefTary an ingredient in 

 the vegetable, as well as animal fyftem;^ 

 it highly behoves every gardiner andl 

 planter, to endeavour by all means not 

 only to procure it, but to confider its 

 quality, fo fat as it relates to the water- 

 ing of trees and other vegetables. 



1 fliall only make a fhort abftraft of 

 the methods of finding water for the 

 life of the garden $ intending^ in fome 

 future attempt, to fet the niatter out 

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