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In ordering Frui t-Tr e e s to - 
' great Advantage. 
I T j§ certi tfl that no Man can ever taife valuable 
anti fair Plants unlefo he love them ; for Jet the 
ScLuatien be never fe advantageous, the Soil 
never fb good, and the Du n§ never ft plentiful* 
it Is ail to little purpofe i But it Fs the Love and Af* 
feaion of the M-afler that animates them, and ren- 
ders them vigorous and ftrong j and therefore if a 
Love of Plants be not found in the Gardener, his 
Labour will be unprofitable, aed without fruit ; and 
I would advife him to defifL 
Now, to have a good Nurfery, you muft obferve 
three things; firft,chule good Pla rrts ; fecondlv* place 
them in a good Soil ; and thirdly, you muft drd^ 
them well; and the heft way to have ftore of good 
Plants, is to have Nurferies of your own to bring up 
Trees wherewith to plant your Garden, becaufe 
Trees taken from fuch Domeftick Nurferies, thrive 
better than others fetch’d from abroad ; for being 
presently replanted after they are taken up, and 
meeting with Earth of the fame nature that they 
hive been ufed to, they grow again with greater 
eafe ; whereas Trees brought from abroad, are much- 
chang’d in the tranfporting, and their Roots often 
batter’d and fpoil’d, and often hurt by Frofts, fo that 
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