IV. _POMONA_, or the Fruit-Garden Illustrated: Containing sure Methods
for Improving all the best Kinds of Fruits now extant in England.
Calculated from great Variety of Experiments made in all Kinds of Soils
and Aspects: Wherein the Manner of Raising young Stocks, Grafting,
Inoculating, Planting, _&c._ are clearly and fully demonstrated.
With Directions, 1. For Pruning; wherein the Reasons, Manner, and
Consequences thereof are clearly demonstrated. 2. For Nailing; wherein
the true Distances that the Branches of Fruit-Trees are to be laid
upon the Walls, are set forth: Being a most important and useful
Discovery unknown to Gardeners in general. 3. For preserving their
Blossoms from the Injuries of Frosts, Winds, _&c._ 4. Rules for the
Thinning of their young-sett Fruits, so as to leave no more than Nature
can strongly support, and ripen in the greatest Perfection. 5. For
preserving and ordering young Fruits from their Blossoms to the time
of their Maturity. 6. To give them their true Taste and Colour when
fully grown, Season of Ripening, Manner of Gathering, Preserving, _&c._
Likewise several practical Observations on the imbibing Power and
Perspirations of Fruit-Trees; the several Effects of Heat and Moisture
tending to the Growth and Maturity of Fruits. To which is added, a
curious Account of the most valuable Cyder-Fruits of Devonshire. The
whole illustrated with above three hundred Drawings of the several
Fruits, curiously engraven on seventy-nine large Folio Plates. By Batty
Langley of Twickenham. Price 1 _l._ 15 _s._
V. Horace’s Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry, done into English,
with Notes, by S. Dunster, D. D. Prebendary of Sarum.
Sermoni Propiora. Lib. 1. Sat. 4. p. 42.