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As for culture, grofs foils muft be often 

 ftir'd and manur'd, or elfe they will grow 

 hard and crack, efpecially about this time, 

 this being the moft proper feafon of the 

 year for luch ftirring and manuring. For 

 which fee my diredions in thcVraBical 

 Fruit Gardiner, printed for Mr. Wood- 

 ward, at the Half- Moon overagainft St, 

 ^unftans Church in Fleetjlreet. 



The beft time to flir dry grounds in, is 

 cither a little before or after rain, or e- 

 vcn whilft the rain is falling, that fo the 

 water may the more fwiftly penetrate to 

 the bottom, before the great heat comes 

 and turns it into vapour, and the fun cx^ 

 hales it. And for moift foils we muft 

 wait for hot and dry weather, to dry and 

 heat them before we flir them ; and fome 

 there are, and that with good reafon, 

 that prick in a little fhort rotten dung, 

 even then to enrich the ground, and to 

 help to keep it moift and cold. 



Careful gardiners make dykes ( in alt 

 cold grounds efpecially) to carry off the 

 gluts of water that fall about this time 

 in hafty fliowers, that fhall correfpond 

 with th'ofe that are on the boundary or 

 outfide of the garden. But if it be a hot 

 light ground, then there fhould be con- 

 veyances 



