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season of the year. Thus walks must always be kept free 

 from weeds, moss, worm-castings, roughnesses, earthy places, 

 decayed leaves, &c. — their edges preserved regular and uni- 

 form ; and the borders on each side well cultivated according 

 to their natures, whether they contain culinary vegetables, 

 fruits, shrubs, or flowering plants. Trees, whether placed against 

 walls, or espaliers, or as standards in the quarters of the garden, 

 must be regularly trained and pruned at the proper seasons. 

 The ground must be kept free from large weeds, decayed leaves 

 or roots, and should also be regularly cropped according to a 

 fixed rotation. Hothouses should be preserved clean, whole- 

 some, and free from insects, &c. 



3. The third business of a kitchen gardener is, to renew, or 

 provide for the renewal of such parts as become useless, whether 

 from age or accidental circumstances, and to place proper 

 substitutes in the room of such things as become useless from 

 change of taste or fashion in the proprietor. Thus he is to 

 renew the gravel of the walks, the espalier rails, the paint 

 of the hothouses, the tools or implements of cultivation, and 

 those fruit trees which are no longer capable of bearing ; and 

 when one sort of fruit is in disrepute, he is to place others 

 in their stead, by ingrafting, or total removal, and the 

 introduction of new plants, &c. This branch of a gar- 

 dener's duty is much neglected ; as appears from the slightest 



