122 The Englijh Gardner. 
ing oft a fine intermixture of fhowers and warm weather,-as 
well as dry 5 but in cafe your ground where you would ereft 
a Garden be very much out of order, either being very 
much over-run with bad forts of Weeds, as Nettles, Twich, 
&c. which cannot be deBroyed with once or twice digging, 
or if very unequal and out of level, fo that it requires much 
railing in fome places, and abatement in other places, where¬ 
by it will be apt to fettle unequally, and cannot be fb order¬ 
ed on a hidden as to continue handfom and level any con- 
fiderable time: I fay in fuch cafes it will be your beft way to 
cleanfe and level in the Winter before, at leaft before you 
intend to make your Garden, but it would be much the bet¬ 
ter to give it one years Husbandry, and then you may crop 
it with fome fort of herbage, either Peafe or Beans, and a crop 
of Turneps after them, taking the firft opportunity, that fo 
they may be got off in good time, and fo by twice or thrice 
Birring of your ground in one year, being careful to cleanfe 
and level it at each Birring as occafion requires, it will be 
the fitter, and readier,and in better cafe to plant any Trees, 
and much eafier to make your Garden fo as to continue 
handfom the longer 5 and befides, you have the feafon of 
Planting before you, whereby you may finifh that work be¬ 
fore-hand, and not deface or flubber your Garden after it is 
finifhed. 
The next thing confiderable, is the feafons for the in- 
creafing and planting of the divers varieties of Herbs and 
Flowers, for the furnifhing of the Garden of Pleafiire: 
And firB I will begin with thofe forts commonly call'd Bul- 
bo’s, or Onion-rooted Flowers, fomething as to the fliape of 
Onions, fuch as Tulips, Crocus, Daffodils, &c. and although 
all or the moB of them are ordinarily, and may be taken 
up in the Spring and planted, both before and in their flower¬ 
ing, and do pretty well if done carefully and fpeedily 5 yet 
it is not the fureB and rnoB proper feafon for any of them 
that have fuch kinds of roots, and therefore I would ad- 
vife everyone if they may, to take another feafon for the re¬ 
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