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thereby. The bcil fcafon for removing them is in 

 tlic bc<Miming of April, when thtr drying eaftcrly 

 winds of March arc over, and, ifpofliblc, choole a 

 cloudy day, when it is inclinable to rain ; and in tak- 

 \n<r tlieni out of the feed-bed, preferve the roots as 

 cnTfrc as pomble, and, if you can, a ball of earth to 

 cacli pLmt. The foil in which thefe trees fliould be 

 planted (as I before faid) fliould be, for the two firft 

 forts, a warm fand or gravel, v/hich, when you have 

 prepared, by carefully digging and cleanfing from all 

 noxious weeds, you mulTlay level. Tlien draw the 

 lines where the trees are to be planted at three feet 

 afunder, and plant the trees at eighteen inches dif- 

 tance in the rows, obferving to clofe the earth well to 

 their roots, as alfo to lay a little mulch upon the fur- 

 face of the ground about their ftems •, and water them 

 well to fettle the earth to their roots, which fliould be 

 repeated twice a week, until the plants have taken 



frefti root. 



Thefe plants may remain in the nurfery three or four 



years, according to the progrefs they make, or till 

 your ground is ready where they are to be planted : 

 but ifyou intend to let them remain longer, you 

 fhould take up every other tree in the rows, and tranf- 

 plant out ; for otherwife their roots will be matted to- 

 gether, fo that it will render it difficult to tranfplant 

 them, as alfo endano-er the future p-rowth of the trees. 

 The plants fliould by no means be let fl:ana too long 

 in the nurfery before they are trahfplanted ouf for 

 good, becaufe the roots do normat together fo clofely 

 as thofe of many other forts of Evergreen Trees, where- 

 by they may be taken up wi;h good balls of earth to 

 their roots j but the roots of the Cyprefs are apt to 

 extend out in length, fo it is one of the mofl difficult 

 trees to remove when grown large ; therefore mofl: 

 curious perfons choofe to plant the young plants into 

 fmall pots, when they firil take them out of the feed- 

 bed, and fo train them up in pots two or three years, 

 until they are fit to plant out where they are to ftand 

 for good, and, by this management, they are fecure 

 of all the plants ; for thefe may be fliaken out of the 

 pots at any time of the year without danger, and 

 planted with their whole ball of earth, which is like- 

 wife a great advantage. When they are planted out 

 for good (if they are deflgned for timber) they fliould 

 be planted about twelve or fourteen feet dift:ance 

 every way, and be very careful in removing thofe in 

 the full ground, not to fliake the earth from their 

 roots 'y to prevent which, you fliould open the ground 





at prcfent this is pretty rare in En^hmd • for V;h^t 

 has pafled under this title herc\ is only a variety of 

 the common fort, whofe branches grow miich looicr, 

 and not fo upright as the iiril • but the cones taken 

 fi-om thefe trees, and thcleeds ibwn, havefrt^qucntly 

 produced plants of both varieties *, but tlic true f]>rend- 

 ing Cyprefs extends fts branches horizontally from 

 the firltyear, and continues to extend them to a^rcat 

 length as the plants advance, and the plants raifcd 

 from the feeds do not vary, fo that it is certainly a 

 difl:indl fpecies. This grows to be a large timber tree 

 in the Levant, and in Italy there are fomc of a con- 

 fiderable fize. 



The Virginian kind may alfo be propagated in as 

 great plenty, for the cones of this may be eafily pro- 

 cured from Carolina or Virginia, in both which places 

 they grow in great abundance •, and the feeds will 

 rife as eafily as any of the other forts, and the plants 

 are equally as hardy : thefe have been formerly kept 

 in pots, and houfed in winter, w^irh which manage- 

 ment they have not fuccceded fo well as they have 

 done in England, fince people have planted them into 

 the full ground ; and where they have had a moifl: foil, 

 I have obfcrv^ed them to thrive bell, which is fince 

 confirmed by Mr. Catefl^y, in his Natural Hifliory of 

 Carolina ; where he fays, that this tree grows in places 

 where the water commonly covers the furface of the 

 ground three or four feet, fo that it may be a veiy 

 great improvcjment to our boggy foils. This tree, 

 carting its leaves in winter, does not lb well fuit with 

 plantations of Evergreens at that feafon; tliough, in 

 fummer, when there is the greatefl: pleafure in walk- 

 ing among plantations of trees, it hath fo much the 

 appearance of an Evergreen, as to pafs for fuch. It 

 may alfo be propagated by cuttings, which fliould be 

 planted in a bed of moift earth in the fpring before 

 they begin to flioot. 



The third fort is at prcfent pretty rare In the Englifli 

 gardens, though of late years there have been many 

 plants raifedhere •, but this fort is not quite fo hardy, 

 I fear, as the common Cyprefs, for the plants are fre- 

 quently killed, or greatly injured in fevcre winters ; 

 and in the hard frolt in 1740, there was a large tree 

 of this kind entirely killed in the gardens of his Grace 

 the Duke of Richmond, at Goodwood inSufl^ex, which 

 had been growing there feveral years ; and in the year 

 1762, many large trees were killed. There are great 

 plenty of thefe trees growing at a place called Bufaco, 

 near Coembra in Portugal, where this tree is called 



about each tree, cutdng off all long roots, then work- the Cedar of Bufaco -, and there it grows to be a tim- 



ing under the ball of earth, cut the downright roots 

 off*; and after having pared off all the earth from 

 the upper part of the ball, as alfo reduced the bulk 

 of it, fo that its weight may not be too great for the 

 fibres to fupport, they may be carried upon a hand- 

 barrow by two perfons to the place where they are to 

 be planted •, but if they are to be carried to a 

 difl:ant place, they fliould either be put into baflcets, 

 or their roots clofely matted tip. When they are 

 planted, you mufl: fettle the earth clofe to their roots 

 as before, laying a little mulch upon the furface of 

 the ground about their fliems, to prevent the fun and 

 wind from entering the earth to dry their fibres ; ind 

 water them well, to fettle the ground to their roots, 

 which mufl: alfo be repeated, if the weather proves 

 dry, until they have taken root, after which time they 

 will require little more care than to keep them clear 

 from weeds. 



The firft:, which is the mofl: common fort in England, 

 feldom produces good feeds in this country ; it is 

 therefore the beft way to have the cones brought over 

 entire from the fouth parts of France and Italy, where 

 they ripen perfeftly well, and take the feeds out jufl: 

 before you fow them, for they will keep much better 

 in the cones- than if they are taken out. The method 

 to get the feeds out is to expofe the cones to a gentle 



heat, which will caufe them to open, and eafily emit 

 their feeds. - - 



The fecond fort growj naturally in the Levant, and 

 from thence it has been formerly brought to Italy, .but 



ber tree, fo that from thence the feeds may be eafily 



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procured. 4-/ ^r-. 

 This tree grows naturally at Goa, from whence it 

 was firfl: brought to Portugal, where it has fucceeded, 

 and been propagated ; formerly there were fome 

 trees of this fort growing in the Bifliop of London's 

 garden at Fulham, where it paflTed under the title of 

 Cedar of Goa, by which it was fent from thence to 

 the Leyden garden with that name. ^ • 



The fifth fort is a native of North America, where 

 it grows to a confiderable height, and affords an ufeful 

 timber to the inhabitants for many purpofes. . This 

 fort is extremely worth cultivating in England ; for 

 as it grows in a much colder country^ there is no 

 danger of its thriving well in the open air in Eng- 

 land ; and being an Evergreen of regular growth, 

 ,will add to the variety of wildernefs quarters, or other 



plantations of Evergreen Trees. 

 This fort is propagated by feeds, which fliould be 

 fown in the fpring in boxes or tubs filled with light 

 frefti earth, and placed where they ma)» enjoy the 

 morning fun till eleven or twelve o'clock. In dry 

 weather they fliould be duly watered, and confliantly 

 kept clear from weeds. In this fituation they may 

 remain till Michaelrhas, when they fliould be remov- 

 ed to a warmer place ; for the plants feldom appear 

 tin the following fpring, fo that it will be proper to 

 place the boxes or tubs near a fouth wall, pale, or 

 hedge, during the winter feafon •, left:, by being too 



much fliaded, the wet of the wint€;r feafon fliould rot 



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