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THE GARDENER’S VEGETABLE SYSTEM 
ders and methods of final tranfplanting, to form the 
various plantations for which the different kinds are 
adapted and defigned, and with full directions for their 
effential culture in the feveral compartments. 
That in the whole, by thus arranging the great and 
valuable tribe of hardy trees and fhrubs under one dif- 
tinCl or feparate divifion, it will prove materially con¬ 
venient and effentially ufeful to gardeners, nurfery- 
men and planters in general, as well as to all owners 
and occupiers of eftates, farms, &c. where improve¬ 
ment in plantations may be neceffary, as they will rea¬ 
dily diltinguifh the proper or particular forts wanted 
for the different occafions of planting. 
This firft part, or divifion, comprifing the fyflem of 
hardy trees and fhrubs that are generally cultivated 
<ir eligible to cultivate in gardens and other diftri&s, 
for forming the various ufeful and ornamental*- planta¬ 
tions, &c. they confift of many genera or families, 
fome furnifhing feveral or many fpecies, others but 
one, two, or three, and many of the refpeClive fpecies 
are fportive in varieties, differing either in growth, 
flowers, fruit, &c. amounting in the whole to feveral 
hundred fpecies and varieties, all of which are of fuf- 
ficiently hardy temperation to grow in the open ground, 
and will profper in moll common foils and expofures, 
and in their different natures may be fuited to various 
fituations, or the greater part will grow freely almoft 
in any; or as fome forts are of a more tenderifh nature, 
require a particular foil and fituation, and fometimes 
demand a fheltered, warm, compartment: thefe parti¬ 
culars are generally intimated under their refpeClive 
heads, in the directions explaining their general cul¬ 
tures; and as this fyltem comprifes all forts of forefl 
trees, ornamental trees and fhrubs, and the different 
forts of fruit trees, as alfo deciduous and eVer-green 
kind, each is explained under their refpeClive genera. 
And as in the numerous different fpecies, fome are 
of upright growth, as in the greater part, and fome 
are of trailing and creeping growth, others climbers; 
all of which have their particular ufes in the different 
plantations. 
That as plantations of hardy trees and fhrubs are 
importantly ufeful and ornamental in general garden¬ 
ing, and of great utility for the embellifhment and 
improvement of eftates, farms. &c. all the different 
genera, fpecies and varieties thereof being collected 
under one general fyftem, the defired forts for the pur- 
pofes intended will be readily difeovered; and of which, 
the forming any plantations defigned, no time fhould 
be loft in furnifhing the allotted diftriCts, that they may 
be advancing in their refpeClive growths, either of the 
ornamental kinds in fhrubberries or other decorative 
compartments in pleafure grounds, parks. See. or of 
foreft trees difpofed ia out-grounds for timber and un- 
datwood, and of the fruit trees in gardens and orchards. 
moft valuable in their annuail.produClions of fruit, as It 
will be feveral years before many of the different forU 
of trees and fhrubs acquire any confiderable growth, 
either for appearance or utility; and as gardens and 
eftates, however defirably fituated, and of favourable 
foils and expofures, if deftitute of plantation, or not fur- 
nifhed therewith, more or lefs in fome degree propor¬ 
tionate to the extent of the ground, appear naked and 
lefs important, as well as prove much lefs valuable to 
x the owners and occupiers thereof; and befides the or¬ 
namental appearance of tree and fhrubberry planta¬ 
tions, they afford fhelter and fhade to particular dif- 
triCts, and thofe of the foreft-tree kind, in plantations 
for timber. Sec. and of the fruit-tree tribe, for their 
fruit, yield great profit, both in many domeftic occa¬ 
fions, and for fale, where it may be defired to make 
all poffible advantage of thefe productions. 
And as moft gardens, pleafure grounds, Sec. are of 
eligible foils, fituations, and expofures, fuitable for 
plantations of the different or definable forts of hardy 
trees and fhrubs, they may' be admitted in any defired 
collection, moftly in the common or general foil of 
the allotted diftriCts; as likewife in moft eftates and 
grounds of any confiderable extent, they, as well as 
fertile foils and fituations eligible for principal, ufeful, 
and ornamental plantations of the more defirable kinds, 
furnifh wafte lands, either in low and marfhy premifes, 
or hilly and mountainous fituations not well adapted 
for other cultivation, are often applicable to planta¬ 
tions of many forts of foreft and other large tree kinds, 
both for profit, ornament, and to diverfify the refpec- 
tive diviiions, and afford fhelter toothers; as there 
are many hardy trees and fhrubs which will grow in 
almoft any foil and fituation, and others require foils 
of a more favourable nature: though it may alfo be 
obferved, that moft forts will nrofper in any common 
foil of gardens and other diftri&s, where it may be 
thought eligible or convenient to have any kind of 
plantations. 
Therefore, in gardens and other grounds, either of 
fmall, moderate, or large extent, having plantations 
lefs or more accordingly, either of vaiious different 
forts of trees and fhrubs, or only of the moll defira¬ 
ble kinds, fuch as the moll ’ eautiful flowering fhrubs, 
and of other principal ornamental fhrubs and trees, 
both of the deciduous and ever-green tribes, difpofed 
in fhrubberries, borders, clumps, and other compart¬ 
ments in a diverfified afi'emblage, and larger trees ar¬ 
ranged in groves, thickets, woods, grand walks, ave¬ 
nues, rows, and in boundary plantations, in pleafure 
grounds, parks, fields, hedge-rows. Sec. they, in all 
of which, afferent plantations, are great embellifhments 
to the grounds, and difplay an entertaining variety in 
their different refpeClive growths, flowers, fruit, &c. 
and in exte five out-grounds, having plantations of 
foreft trees for their timber and underwood, are of 
important value, as likewife in gardens in general, 
never 
