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TiiF. oclicr prijiclpal part, formerly called tht P Id nfu re-garden^ 

 in all tlie (lately late cleligns, coiififts chiefly in extennve lawns^ 

 and ficUs of grafs, interfperfcd vfith large pl?.ntations of Foreil 

 Trees and Flowering Shrubs, planted in the wilderneis way. To 

 execute, and (from bad feafons, with other accidents) even to 

 fupply the defedis of thefe works, as well as to keep up a provi- 

 fion ior inclofing and planting the other parts of the eflate, a 

 nurfery ought always to be flipported. The planting, annual 

 prunmg, and culture of the foil in large wildernefs defigns, fo as 

 both to promote the growth, and reduce, the trees to a beautiful 

 ionn, requires fldll and labour. To fow the feeds of Flowering 

 Shrubs, Fruit and Forefl: Trees, — to increafe them by layers, cut- 

 tings, — to improve many kinds by grafting and inoculatioit, 

 — and to remove them at proper periods, giving them all other 

 necelTaj'y culture, — is as much as anyone man can fee executed 

 with judgment ; and whatever gardener holds thefe performances 

 in fo cheap a light as to allow their - being condudled by his 

 common workmen, that moment he forfeits his pretenfions to 

 fenfe and ability in his buiinefs, if not to honefty alfo. 



To men of plentiful fortunes then, who would promote all 

 the various branches of Gardening, and enjoy them with refine- 

 ment, I think two gardeners, for the different purpofes named, 

 feem indifpenfibly necelTary : And I cannot help here proceeding 

 a little farther, humbly to reprefent, that the mofl efFedlual me- 

 thod of promoting tlie more univerfal knowledge of the art in 

 this part of the kingdom, would be to give the gardener double 

 the encouragement we ufually do, as the prefent (I mean in ge- 

 neral) is extremely difpropqrtioned to the importance of his 

 office. 



