Excerpt from The Practice of Gardening Explained to All Capacities: Including the Newest Improvements, by Which Gentlemen, Who Have Small Gardens, May Make Themselves Masters of the Art, and Manage Them With Little Expence, to Their Satisfaction, And the Common Gardener Be Enabled to Go Through His Business With Credit

Under thefe four heads maybe comprishend-c ed the, wholepraetice of common gardeningyand, as each clafs ofthelie has a particular courfenfculv ture, the bufinefe may accordingly be divided into' four kinds: 1. The railing tender annuals on hotg-beds in ¿aring. 2. Theraifing hardybien-z nials 'or perennials in the nurfery, in the open ground. 3. The management of choice andeu rions flowers: which di¿'ers no way from the. Former, but. In that: it, requires more timezand care: and, 4. The propagatinggtrees and ¿irubs, by cuttings, layers, or fuckers: He that knows how to do thefe four. Things, is qualified to take care ofanyocornt'non garden 3., aud when be right: 1y under¿ands the culture of one plantof either clafs, he will know howto manage them all: i any planninthe world is reducible to one or other of thefe four kinds and therefore anger}: dening maybe comprifed within this moderate compafs. Thole whohavq extended it.t, o large volumesxhave delivered feparately the culture of every {pecies hut this is only repeating. 113a times over, the very fame direétions.

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