The Englijh Gardner. 
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are to defend them as you fee caule with a little draw light¬ 
ly laid upon them, until you have entred them to endure the 
weather: and having hardened them, aslfaid, by little and 
little, you may take oil your Glafles, and give them fun from 
nine or ten in the Morning, until feven at Night, and then 
Glafs them again, and cover them with your Mats, and keep 
in the Heat of the Sun 5 and when you fee your Fruit begin to 
knit, Glafs it, but have a care the Glafs do not burn it: then- 
put a piece of Tile under your Fruit to keep it from the Earth, 
not watering, or but very little, as need requires, until your 
Fruit be as big as a Goofe-Egg, except the Weather be ex- 
tream hot, and your Bank very dry, &c. For watering 
your Bank, take Pond or Ditch-Water, and give your Bank 
io much on the fides and allies as will foak quite through to 
the ftraw, but let not much come into your Holes of Plants 5 • 
remember this watering ought not to be but in very hot and dry 
weather j allb let your Mats be kept over your Plants every 
Night, until your Fruit be wrought out, or as you fee the 
Night or Weather inclined, whether friendly or otherwile, as 
to inch tender railed Fruits 5 for the truth is, if it be mild or 
temperate, Air is beft for them: Take notice, that if your 
Plants turn up their Ends or Nofes toward the Air in a dry 
time, then they want Water, the which you are to fupply 
them withdiferetion, avoiding excels: be careful at firft plant¬ 
ing to keep your Plants from Rain or Snow-water, for it will 
deftroy them if it come at them: if your Plants turn the Ends 
or Notes upward towards the Air, be fure there is a Fault at 
the Root 5 but when they thrive beft, they will carry their 
Ends or Nofes dole to the Ground , and will.be very limber, 
then do not meddle with them at all.* Remember every morn¬ 
ing when you heave your Glafles, to wipe the Dev/ off them, 
alfo gently (hake it off your Plants with your Hand, for it 
weakens them. 
Ailb at firft giving Air to your Plants, raile the Edge of 
your Glaffes with a little ftraw to (land on j and asthey grOW 
more hardy, you may raile them with fomething elle, by 
O .• giving 
