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fmall, compared to that in John 

 Trade/cantos Garden. 



There are great Numbers of large 

 Trees of this Service growing wild 

 about Aubigny in France ; from 

 whence his Grace the late Duke of 

 Richmond brought a great Quantity 

 of the Fruit, and from the Seeds 

 raifed a great Number of young 

 Plants in his Gardens at Goodwood in 

 SuJJex. 



Thefe Fruits nearly refemble 

 Medlars in their Nature, being of 

 a very auftere Tafte, till they are 

 rotten ; when they have a more 

 agreeable Flavour ; but in England 

 their Fruit does not ripen fo well as 

 in warmer Countries, and is there- 

 fore lefs efteem'd ; however, the 

 Trees are propagated by fuch Per- 

 fons as are curious in collecting the 

 various Kinds of hardy Trees and 

 Shrubs, for the Oddnefs of their 

 Leaves and Fruit. 



They may be propagated by fow- 

 ing their Seeds on a moderate Hot- 

 bed in the Spring; and when the 

 Plants are come up, they lhould be 

 carefully kept clear from Weeds, and 

 in dry Weather watered ; but they 

 fhould be expos'd to the open Air ; 

 for the only Reafon of making an 

 Hot-bed is, to forward the Growth 

 of the Seeds : but if, when the Plants 

 are come up, the Bed is kept co- 

 vered, it will draw the Plants, and 

 fpoil them. In this Bed the Plants 

 fhould remain until the Middle of 

 Ofiober, when there lhould be a 

 warm light Spot of Ground prepaid 

 to receive them ; into which they 

 fhould be planted in Rows two Feet 

 afunder, and a Foot diflant in the 

 Rows; obferving to take them up 

 carefully, and to plant them as foon 

 as poffjble, that their Roots may not 

 cry. 



During the Summer, the Ground 



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mould be kept constantly clear fro m. 

 Weeds ; and in Winter there mould 

 be a little Mulch laid upon the Sur- 

 face of the Ground about their Roots, 

 to protect them from being injur'd 

 by Froft; but in the Spring the 

 Ground between them fhould be 

 dug, burying the Mulch therein ; in 

 doing of which, you muft be careful 

 not to cut or injure the Roots of the 

 Plants. 



. In this Nurfery they may continue 

 three or four Years, according to 

 their Growth, when it will be pro- 

 per to tranfplant them out where 

 they are to remain ; the belt Seafon 

 for which is in Oclober, or in the 

 Spring, juft before they begin to 

 moot. The Soil mould be warm in 

 which they are planted, and the Si- 

 tuation defended from cold Winds ; 

 in which Place they will thrive, and 

 produce Fruit in a few Years ; but 

 as the Fruit will vary from thofe 

 from which the Seeds were taken (as 

 is the Cafe of moft Sorts of Fruit), 

 the fureft Method to have the parti- 

 cular Sorts which you intend to cul- 

 tivate, is, to bud or graft them either 

 upon their own, or the wild Service 

 Stock ; upon which they will take, 

 and produce Fruit in a few Years. 



The four Sorts next-mention'd are 

 very common in the Italian Gardens^ 

 and of late Years they have been 

 brought into England by the Perfons 

 who bring over Orange-trees, cifr. 

 fo that in a few Years they may be 

 common in England. But the great 

 Difficulty is in keeping of the Sorts; 

 becaufe when thefe Trees are propa- 

 gated by Seed, they vary as much in 

 their Kinds as Apples and Pears : 

 and it is very difficult to propagate 

 them by grafting or budding ; for 

 they feldom fucceed when grafted on 

 Pears, Apples, or Medlars ; and it 

 is not eafy to rails Stocks of their own 



Kind, 



