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Show MA MA ——————___ will check their y Budding, and prepare Stir and rake the Earth of your Borders their Roots forplanti ng; by which Meansthere will belittle Danger of their not fucceeding. 'This is the chief Month for grafting moft Sorts of Fruit-trees ; beginning w ith Cherries. it bs and Pears, and ending with 4p which will hinder the Growth of W eeds, ani But this Work fhould be perform’d earli: rofe- roared Flowers, which will be of great Service to them: But you muft becareful in doing ofit not to injure their RootsSy nor their Flower-buds, which now begin to a Andas the ‘Nights are often at thi Seaton, later according to the Seafon. eeable to the Eye; and do the {ameto your Beds of Tulips, “ Hyaciinths, Anemones, , and other bulbous and tube. Rant Cut off the Heads of {uch Stocks as were budded the laft Mid/ummer, leaving about four Inches above the Bud, to faften the Shoot to, which will be produc’d from the Bud, and frofty, fo you thould carefully cover yourBeds prune the Stocks of the former Year’s Grafts, ofchoice Flowers with Mats or Canvas, to prewhichare ftill remaining in the Nurfery where vent their being injur’d thereby. Plant fome Anemone-~Roots to flower late ; they were grafted. You muft nowdig up the Ground between the Rows of Trees in the Nurfery, which will encourage their Roots to ftrike out frefh, and onerine the Ground from noxious Weeds and, if the Seafon prove dry, you muft refreth en with Water once in two or three Days, otherwife they will cometolittle. Drefs and frefh-earth your Beds of Ra and weed and ftring the Beds of Strawrries, which will caufe them to produce a greater Quantity of Fruit. _Pruits itil lating: Apples Campions, C. let Lychnis’s, Rofe and other fibrofe-rooted Plants, which we S35 ih will greatly tranfplanted at Miche ftrengthen them, andcaufe their Flower-ftems to advance the fooner. , eaiffet, Fobyt Apple, Pomme d ’ Apis Golden between. Flowering- Shrubs, if it were not done Pippin, Kenti d Pippin, French Pippin, St s Ruffet, > with Dig up the Ground, in Wildern efs-Quarters, the laft Month, which will make the Shrubs clean from W. eed s, and encourag uss (which Plants are now appearing above-g ound) fhould beplac’d in the Shade, for one Day’s Sun will deftroy moft of them while they’re young. You may, toward the latter End of this Month, fowCarnation and Pink-[eeds ; as alfo bury Bell, French Hor Tuft, Venus Looki Siweet- [cented Pe Upon a fown Ma anonerate ee, to prevent their Roots from being dried bythe Sun and Wind. You maynowfowthe Seeds of B the Month, you may tranfplaant fuch Evers green and other Exotick-trees as were jown u . preceding Year (and are now pretty ftrong Plants) either into Pots or Nurfery--beds, as is direéted under the feveral Articles of theit Culture. , W Cover your Pots of choice Auriciias 0 Night, ifthe Weather be inclineableto } fortheir Flower-ftems beginning to advan their Buds are often blighted with uni Frofts, if they are expofed to the of whereby they are render’d very poor. too large to be contain’d under the Gl affes, till by a better Fer mentation, and byits having lain fo deep in the Earth as not to havefpent or weaken’d its fertilizing Quali ty by any Produd. Marie j fuppos’d to be muchof the Nature of Chalk, and is believ’d to beferti le fromi ts falt andoily Quality, and that it contracts its Salts from the Air, and for that Reafo n is tt re tter the longer it is expos'd toit. Maries are ‘of different Qualit Q ies in d Counties of England. There are recko n . to be four Sorts of Afarles in |S, \ a Yellow, and a Red: Of thefe the Biue accounted the beft, the Yellow the next, and the Greythe next tothat :3 and as for the Red; that is the leaft durable. The Marle in Suffex is moft like Fuller dot-beds of ’srth, and therefore muft certa inly be the traniplane {uch fattef t; whereas that in the North-Counatry runs € come up from onth, and plant ge the om frefh Earth, and a moderate Hot-bed. this 1 the Bark ped fhould be 1 the ‘or tl nas or Pine5 into ae they thoulId be plac’d tothe latter end of this Mon th, or the ing of the next. The Bark-beds of the o beftirr’d, and fome freth but this muft be donein awa troubled with, which, if not clean’d of time, frequently proves injurious to the Plants. I i Stoves fhould be abated, done by Degrees, as the their ir r Heads:sf} much upon the Loam. In Chefbire theyas kon fix Sorts of Marle: 1, The Cow/by brownith Colour, which with is of a blue Veinsin it, and little Lumps of ‘ChallIk or Lime-{tone: It is commonly found under CI lay or low black Landfeven or eight Feet deep, and is very hard to dig. kind of foft Stone: or rather or bluifh Colour, that will e Froft or Rain: This is found near Rivers and the mae3 of Hills; and is a very lafting Sort of Mar : they efteem the Dice or than the Clay-Mar, 5 and kon the Bluie beft for Arable-L, and, and the Greyfor Pafture. 3 Peat-Marle, or e Marle, which is clofe, ftrong, and very fat, of a brown Colour, and is found on the Sides of Hi Ils, and in wet or boggy Grounds, which have auh ght Sandin them a This is accounte and is very goo yvL Land mutt hay lo ( itity laid on. > andis ( , and fome] ¢ 30ttom of that are dug, apt to break 1} times under fand 6. Paper-Marle; v ieces of brown Pap moaly. in the of it felf i r Colour: This i em’d, 1c pertics of any tes, and the Goodnefs of them may be beft tt Some Auenor peeds oe C. , * by their Purity in their Colour; as into ind 5 1f it the Weather will permit their being tranfplanted into the open Air, Make frefh H ot-beds to ane ant fuch an- after nual Plants which were fown the laft Month, in order to br them forward, otherwife they feldom grow toaany confiderable Size. tun be pick’d and frefh-earth’d, which ftrengthen them. may now be Pik as, and many ae lef hardy annual Plant s, which, if fowntoo early, are apt to grow > Weather is mild ; you the Leayes from F ilth, nave contracted during their being the Plants fuffer by the Glaff n’d to put in the Bark ; you fhould alfo pick off all dead Leaves, andcut offall dec yd Bran nches from your tender Exoticks, and wath their Leaves and Steems, to cleanfe them from Filth and Infeéts, both which they are often Your Pots of choice C. perennial Plants. And nowbegin to inure them to the Air € ies in the Middle Weather be mild, andinclineable to Moifture, you maytranfplant Ever-greens, and many planted out to flower the laft 1 ~~) Wallflowers, with a other hardy annual or Amomum xotick Plants hem too much at intermix’d with the old, to renewthe Firs, Pines, Alaternus’s, P tS, with many other ever-gt ; End 0of hardy Exotick-trees ; and, toward the The.“Boxes wiith Seedling Auricula’s and 6 FY, Cornelian . to flower the ftronger. Toward the End of this Month, if the cover the Surface of the Ground with Mulch, ooted Plant: Zereons, Spurge Laurel, Benjamin Iree, and fome others. Give frefh Earthto the Pots of DosbieS other Sorts ofhardy Exotick-trees, obfervingto in the Flower Garden. Month youmay tranfplant moft Sorts er'd Peach, Virgi- courage the Flowers, and render thenmore with many others of lefs No |