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Show ii i 43.) 7 "i 1 FE — ech: But as thefe have never been nguifh’d by the Botanijts, nor can I pere any real Difference among{t all the Trees ofthis Kind I have yet feen, fo I rather think the Difference in the Colour of the Wood is fion’d by the Places of their Growth; is often obferv’d to be the Cafe with moft other Sorts of Timber. This Tree is propagated by fowing the Matt; the Seafon for whichis any time from Oflober ta February, only obferving to fecure the Seeds from Vermin when early fow'd; which if carefully done; the fooner they are fown the better, after they ate fully ripe: A fmall Spot of Ground will be fufficient for raifing a great Number ofthefe Trees from Seed, but you muft be very careful to keep them clear from Weeds; and if the Plants come up very thick, you fhould not fail to draw out the ftrongeft of them the Autumn following, that thofe left may have Room to grow: So that if you hufband a Seed-bed Oh Ad ll Trays, Bu Coffers, &c. The Matt is very good to fat Swine and Deer ; it alfo affords a fweet Oil, The two Sorts with variegated Leaves, may be propagated by budding or grafting them upon the common Beech, obferving not to down the Branches of hardy Trees to take root. Towards the latter End of the Month you plant them in a good Earth, which will caufe the Buds or Cyons to fhoot vigoroufly, whereby the Leaves will become plain, which often happens to moft variegated Plants, them from Weeds, as alfo to dig up the Ground between the Roots; at leaft once a Year, that their tender Roots may the better extend themfelves each Way 3 but be careful not to cut or bruife their Roots, which is injurious to ll young Trees, and never dig the Ground in Summer, when the Earth is hot fay more te: under benade Article ofima Nurfery. sti Ke hare = ige eS eto lurround Plantations or ona large large Wil- otherwife would decay and come to nothing . to decay where they were cut, if it fhould prove bad Weather after it is done. See Generation of Plants. is mild and open, is as bufy a Seafon as any of the Year, fora great Part of the Summer Productions depends upon the Care taken in this Month to fow or plant the Variety of Kitchen-Herbs, Roots, &, Work to be done in the Kitchen and FruitGarden this Month. The Beginning ofthis Month, make Hotbeds for Cucumbers, Melons, early Peafe, Strawberries , Kidney-Beans, 8¢c. as alfo to fow fome Colliflower-Seeds, to fucceed thofe which were fown the Auguft before: But thefe late Crops are only proper for moift Soils, in whichthey latter End of the Month, you mutt tranl= Plant your Colliflower-Plants out of the Beds where they were preferv’d through the Winters and flip and plant Artichokes, if the Soil be dry, otherwife it will be better to defer this Work until the next Month. if they Root ftrong 3m which Continue to make Hot-beds for Afparagus Cafe, if they are tah bura Seafon or two, it will be difficult fo come in the next Month, and be very cafe Nidure, if Rad eee ee : torn ‘ i. fe tei Toate efpecially bry uneSt He Stade of his Tre Brow hear it “Bat ie heater - on race ¥ety falubrious to human The Timber ur ce Bodi. odies, Soo ee ful of your Cucumber and Melon Plants at this Seafon, efpecially if the Weather be dark and cloudy, which is very often deftruétive 0 them, if great Cate be not taken to preferve an Heat in the Beds, and Airgiven to them great Ufe to Turners for equal at all proper Opportunities, Plant Heaia ! i ii adil muft graft Pears, Plums and Cherries; fet Kernels, Nuts, or Stones of Fruit; fow Beach- FARINA FOECUNDANS, is the im- pregnating Meal or Duft on the Apices of Flowers, which being convey’dinto the Uterus or Vajculum Seminale of Plants, fecund ates the Rudiments of the Seeds in the Ovary, which are often as good as thofe preferv’d and dry, which by letting in the Rays ofthe through the Winter, Dig Sun to the Roots, is often the and trench fuch Deftruction of Quarters of your Kitchen-Garden as were not young Trees. before done, and plant out your Plants of This Tree will grow to a confiderable though the Soil be ftony and barren, Stature, the Large-fided or Sugar-loaf Cabbage, which as alfo were fown the 4uguft before; Plant a fecond upon the Declivities of Hills, and chalky Crop of Windfo r-Beans, and fow Peafe, CarMountains, where they will refift the Winds rots, Onions, Leeks, better than moft other Trees; but Parfnips, Radifhes, Spithen the nage, Lettuce , Scorzon Nurferies for the young Plants ought to be Parfley, Corn-Sallad era, Skirrets, Salfafy, upon the fame Soil ; for if , Afparagus, with ,moft they are rais’d good Soil and a warm Expofure, and ina other hardy Seeds, afterPlant Garlick, Shalots, Rocambole, wards tranfplanted into a bleak, and barren Situa- Onions for Seed ; or to draw up in April tion, they feldom thrive, which holds true in for Scallion s. moft other Trees, therefore I would advife the If the Weather is mild towards the Middle or teFi eke Be Slpr Foreft-Trees, if the Weather be mild, and lay Maj, and other Seeds of Fore/l-Trees, and hardy Flowering-Shrubs. Prune and train up fuch of your E/palier Fruit-Trees as were not before done, and prune Apricocks, Plums, Pears, &c, againft the Walls; but let Peach and Neéfarines be the FEBRUARY. This Month, if the Weathe r will be fufficient. In this Nurfery they may remain two or three Years; obferving to clear Plant Potatoes and Ferufalem-Artichokes, if nis’s, Rofe Campions, Fox-Gloves, Pinks it was not done before, and fow fmall Sallet Seeds upon moderate Hot-beds, or in warm and hath in fome Families fupported Men with Bread, 4 Nurfery, and, if defign’d for Timber-trees, at three Feet Diftaace Row ftom Row, and Diftance need not be fo great; two Feet Row ftom Row, and one Footin the Rows Prey Borders under Walls. You may now fafely tranfplant Fruit or FEATHERFEW or FEAVERFE W; vide Matricaria. eighteen Inches afunder in the Rows. But if they are defign’d for Hedges, (to which the Tree is very well adapted) the 1 Pon ene Difhes, and likewife to the Joyner for Svools, B carefully, it will afford a three Years Draught of young Plants ; which fhould be planted in MTTTe making Trenchers, FE + laft done, for their Branches are very fubject The Produtts of the Kitchen-Garden in February. Beets, Carrots, Parfnips, Leeks, Onions, Potatoes, Turnips, Cabbages, Savoys, Coleworts, Broccoli, Spinage s and under Frames, feveral forts of Sallet-Herbs; and upon the Hot-bed, Ajparagus, now very good. Fruits in prime, or yet lafting. Apples: Whe Rennet Grife, Aromatick Pippin, Golden Ruffet, Winter Pearmain, Fobn Apple, Golden Pippin, Pippin, French Pippin, Nonpariel, Holland Kentifh Pippin, Stone Williams, Perennial Catch-Flies, Ca Thrift, with moft other Fibrofe-rooted Pl] that do not flower too earlyin the Spr Make Layers of Fa/inines; Honeyfuckle. other Flowering Shrubs. Dig and prepare your Ground for Nurfery. beds againft the fucceeding Month, when oth Bufinefs will come on apace: fo that if you do not get Things in Readinefs this Month, will be fo much hurry’d in the next, that Things mutt be neglectedor left undone. Break-up your Gravel- Walks, and turn ’em: but do not Rake ’emtill next Month. You may now plant Box to edge Borders but it is a better Seafon for this Work in Se tember or Offober, if the Ground be dry; tho in wet Soils this Monthis preferable. The Weather being mild, and the Airfoft, you muft begin to give Air by degrees to the Green-houfe Plants: but do not open the Windows when the Winds are fharp and piercing, altho’ the Sun may fhine warm. You fhould alfo pick off all decay’d Leaves from your Plants, and ftir the Surface of the Earth in your Pots and Tubs, and add little frefh Earth thereto, giving them little Water to fettle the Earth. You fhould alfo at this Seafon adda little frefh Tanners Bark to the Hot-bed in the Stove, ftirring up the old Bark, which by this Time, has loft a great part of its Heat, mixing the frefh amongft it, and plunge the Pots again into it; this will caufe a freth Fermentation, Pippin, Oaken Pin, with fome others of lefs Note. Pears : Winter Bon-cretien, Bugi Portail, whereby the Heat will be renewed. Toward the Latter-end of this Month you telle, Citron @ Hyver, Ld. Cheyney’s Green Pear, fhould be plung’dtherein in March. Winter-Bury, with fome others. And make Hot-beds for Tender Annuals, and other Evxotick Seeds, which require to be Winter Ruffelett, Cadillac, Bezy du Chaumon- Work to be done in the Flower-Garden and Green-Houfe this Month. If the Weather be mild, you muft clean the Surface of the Ground, on Flower-Borders and Beds, and tranfplant Carnations into the Pots they are to remain to flower in; as alfo fuch as are for Borders, if they were not planted out in the Autumn, fhould be now remov’d to the Places where they are to flower. You may yet fow Auricula’s and Polyanthos Seeds; though Funuary is preferable to this Month. About the Middle of this Month you fhould take the Surface of the Earth out of the Pots of Auricula’s ; and after picking off all decay’d Leaves from the Plants; you muft fill up the Pots with very rich light Earth, which will caufe them to flower itrong : but you muft carefully cover the Pots in the Night, if it hap- pens to be hard Frofty Weather, after the Buds of the Flowers appear in the Center of the Plants; for otherwife they are fubject to be deftroy’d : fo that many times there will not be above four or five Flowers upon a Stalk ; Whereas if they had been cover’d duly, there might be eighteen or twenty, or more, You may now tranfplant Canterbury Bells, French Honeyfuckles, Daizies, Scarlet Lych« fhould make freth Bark-bedsfor Anana’ s, which brought forward in the Spring. Sow the Kernels of Oranges and Lemons in Pots, as foon as they come out of the Fruit, and fet the Pots into a Hot-bed. N: B. The Kernels of Rotten Fruit are much preferable to any other. Plants now Flowering in the Pleafure-Garden. Single Anemonies, Winter Aconite, Hellebores; Bears-foot, Crocus’s, Vernal Cyclamens, Snow- drops Double and Single, Early White, Blue and Small Starry Hyacinth, Perfian Iris, Hepatica’s, Single Wall-Flower, Early Tulips, Polyanthus Narciffus, Daizies, Fennel-leav’d Perennial Adonis, Spring Baftard-Navelwort, Lauruftinus’s, Mezereon’s, Spurge Laurel, Spanifh Travellers Foy. And if the Weather be mild, towards the End of the Month, fome Almonds, the Cherry-Plum, with fome others. Plants now Flowering in the Green-Hou/e. Indian, Spanifo, and Ilex-leav’d Fafmines, Geranium’s, Ficoides’s, feveral Sorts of Aloe’ s, Aleppi Cyclamens, Polygala Arborejcens, Senecio folio retufo, Chryfanthemum’s, Hermannia’s, with fomeothers. FENCES. Jn hotter Climates than England, where they have not Occafion for Walls to | |