The PraBtce Part II 



Box likewife is a Shrub very much in Ufe, and which 

 you cannot well make Shift without in a Garden^ it being 

 equally fit for Parterres and Palifades. It is to be raifed 

 from Seed which fliould be fown in good Earth 5 but the 

 Way to have it readily^ is to flip it off from old Stocks of 

 Box, and to replant it, burying it almoft entirely in the 

 Ground, which makes it flioot out again at the Neck j and 

 by this means you are furnifli'd with fine young Box, cut- 

 ting away the Roots and Fibres of the old. 



As to the Cyprefs, Pine, Fir-Tree, and Scarlet-Oak^' 

 their Fruit is to be gathered in Seafon, and. fown after the 

 ufual Manner, ftill obferving that it be in the beft Ground,, 

 and be very carefully looked after; Trees of this Kind be- 

 ing always much more tedious and hard to> raife,. than o=- 

 thers. 



When your Ever-green Trees and Shrubs ar^ got tO' 

 fome Height, you may then begin to lliape them at your 

 Pleafure, clipping them with the Shears into Balls, Pyra- 

 mids, d'c. 



If you would not be at the Trouble of fowing this Seed, 

 nor wait fo long as to fee it raifed, you may make Layers- 

 from the Foot of any large Yews or Piceas that yovi have,, 

 which will do very well, for at two Years end you may 

 take up your Layers very well rooted, and plant them in 

 your Nurfery, which gains a great deal of Time. I have 

 explained, in the fifth Chapter aforegoing, what is meant 

 by laying Layers. You may likewife buy young Plants o£^ 

 tliis Sort, and raife them in your Nurfery by themfelves. 



Other Ever-GreenSy as the Phillyrca, Juniper, Alater- 

 BUS, Savine, Pyracantha, d^t:. are raifed after the fame Man- 

 ner as tlie foregoing, but grow much faftcr* 



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