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muft be a great fatisfadion to the owner, 

 I thought I could not finifli this treatife 

 better than by giving a fliort account of 

 what every gentleman may reafonably 

 cxpecl, by way of retaliation for his ex- 

 pence, in every feafon of the year; pro- 

 vided he be really at the charge of drain- 

 ing his ground well (if it be a clay) ac- 

 cording to the dircdions publifli'd in the 

 TraBical Fruit Gardiner, under the title 

 of fruit ; and provided the ground (if it 

 be not naturally a warm fand;, but clayifli) 

 be free from fhade, burn-bak'd, and 

 mix'd with dung, cole-a flies, fea, and 

 great quantities of other common or 

 lighter fand, and that the ground be of 

 a proper depth, and liable to be well wa- 

 ter'd, and fenc'd in and fecur d by warm 

 hedges or fences of reed, palC; wall, or 

 otherwife ; to this may be added, that he 

 be fure to 2;et the beil feeds in their feve- 

 ral kinds, and trench in a good depth of 

 long dung or litter, old thatch, or wafle 

 ftraw or haulm, into thofe borders that 

 are to be fown with early things, fo as 

 to make the ground a little hoilowifli, 

 and confequently caufe the fuperfluous 

 moiilure to drain off apace ; that you 

 have at hand all glaffcs and mats, mofs, 



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