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New Improvements of Plantingand Gardening
New Improvements of Plantingand Gardening Author:Richard Bradley General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1731 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAP. II. Of Ever-Greens, their Culture, and life in Gardens, I Am in this Chapter to fpeak of the Culture of Ever-Greens, and their Ufe in Gardens. They are (6 Ornamental. where they are rightly managed, that I think no Garden can be complete without them; they make beautiful and ufeful Hedges, and in fingle Plants, when they have been order'd by a Curious and skilful Hand, they are lb many growing Monuments of the Art of Gardening. But to come to Particulars, the Ever-greens, which are commonly propagated by the Gardeners, are Hollies, Tews, the Laurus-tinus, Bay, Box, Laurel, Phillyrea, Alaternus, Juniper, Piracantba, Ilex, Arbutus, and the Ever-green Privet. Thefe have every one their proper Places in Gardens, with refpecl: to their feveral Stages of Growth. Some of them may be kept in Shape and Comparfs with very little Trouble, while others are to apt. to out-grow the Care of the Gardener, let him be ever fb vigilant. SECT. I. Of the HOL LT. TO confider thefe fingly, I ihall begin with the Holly, which is in my Opinion the moft beautiful of all the reft. It will grow to a very large Tree. I have feen Plants of this Kind above fixty Foot high in the Holly Walk near Frencham Frencham in Surrey, in which Place they delight extremely; the Soil is dry, rather inclining to Sand than Loam: The Holly is a tap-rooted Plant, and therefore does not love Tranfplanting, unlefs the Roots have been often pruned in the Nurfery, by digging about it, which a careful Gardener will frequently do, that they may rife with a Ball of Earth when they are to be removed, but yet not- withftanding all his Care, it is...« less