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five or thirty feet high, though there is no doubt of 

 their grov/ing Larger \ for they thrive very faft after 

 the three firit years, and refiftthelharpell froft of our 

 climate exceeding well, and are very apt to grow 

 ftrait and regular, provided they are not fuftered to 

 fhoot out too much at bottom, 

 Thcfe planes are alfo propagated by feeds, which 

 mufl be procured from Virginia or Carolina (for they 

 rarely produce ripe feeds in England) and fown as was 

 diredcd for the other Junipers ; but as this feed can- 

 not be procured in England till fpring, fo when fown 

 at that feafon, it remains in the ground until thefuc- 

 ceeding fpring before the plants appear •, therefore you 

 mult obferve to keep the beds clear from weeds, and 

 not fufFer the feeds to be difturbed, which is often the 

 fault offomc impatient people, who think, becaufc 

 the plants do not rife the firll year, that they will ne- 

 ver come up, and fo dig up the ground again, where- 

 by their feeds are buried -, but if they are let remain, 

 they feldom fail to grow, though fometimes it is two 

 years after fowing before they come up. When the 

 plants come up they muft be carefully weeded, and 

 in dry weather {hould be refrefhed with water, which 

 will greatly forward their growth; and the autumn 

 following they fhould have a little rotten tan laid be- 

 tween them, to keep out the froft. In this bed the 

 plants may remain till they have had two years growth, 

 then they fhould be tranfplanted into other beds, as 

 was diredcd before for the other forts, obferving to 

 preferve a ball of earth to their roots ; and after 

 they are planted, if the feafon proves dr)', they muft be 

 carefully watered, and the furface of the ground co- 

 vered with mulch, to prevent the fun and wind from 

 entering the earth to dry their fibres ; but they fhould 

 not be too much watered, which often proves inju- 

 rious to thefe trees, by rotting their tender fibres foon 

 after they are emitted, whereby the plants have been 

 often deftroyed. 



In thefe beds they may remain two years, obferving 

 to keep them clear from weeds-, and in winter you 

 fhould lay a little frefti mulch upon the furface of the 

 round round their roots, which will prevent the froft 

 rom penetrating to them, and effeftually preferve 

 them \ for while the plants are fo young, they are lia- 

 ble to be injured by hard frofts, when too much 

 expofed thereto ; but when they have attained a 

 greater ftrength, they will refift the fevereft of oyr 



cold. 



After two years, they fhould either be removed into 

 a nurfcry (as was direfted for the common Juniper) 

 or tranfplanted where they are defigned to remain, ob- 

 ferving always to take them up carefully, otherwile 

 they are fubjedt to fail upon tranfplanting ; as alfo to 

 mulch the ground, and water them as was before di- 

 redled, until they have taken root ; after which they 

 will require no farther care, than^only to keep the 

 ground clear about their roots, and to prune up 

 their fide branches to make them afpirc in height. 

 The foil in which you plant thefe trees fhould be 

 frefh and light, but muft not be dunged, efpecially at 

 the time when they are planted j for dung is very 

 hurtful to them, if it be not quite rotted to mould ; 

 therefore the mulch which is laid upon the furface 

 of the ground fhould not be dung, but rather 

 fbme old tanners bark or fca-coal afhes, which will 

 prevent the froft from penetrating deep in the 



ground. ' • 



Thcfe trees being thus managed, will in a few years 



' rife to a confiderable ftature, and by the variety of 

 their evergreen leaves and manner of growth, will 

 peatly add to the beauty of all plantations, if rightly 

 ifpofed, which indeed is what we feldom obferve in 

 any of the Englifh gardens or wilderneflcs ^ for there 

 are few people who confider the different growths of 

 the feveral trees with which they compofe fuch plan- 

 tations, fo as to place the talleft growing trees the 

 backwardeft from fight, and the next degree to fuc- 

 ceed them, and fo gradually diminiihing till we come 

 to the common Juniper, and othersof the fame growth, 

 whereby all the trees will be feen, and the gradual de- 



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clivity of their tops will appear like a verdant flope 

 and be much more agreeable to the light, as alfo more 

 advantageous to the growth of the trees, than to place 

 fhrubs of humble growth near fuch plants as will 

 grow to the firft magnitude, whereby the fhrub is hid 

 from fight, and will be over-fliadowcd and deftroyal -, 

 nor can the diftance which each tree requires, be fa 

 juftly proportioned any other way ; for in this diftri- 

 bution, the largeft trees being feparated by themfelve? 

 may be placed at a due diftance \ and then chofe of a 

 middhng growth fuccecding, may be accordino-ly al- 

 lowed fufficient room ; and the fmaller, which are 

 next the fight, being placed much clofer, will hide 

 the naked ftems of the larger trees, and have an 

 agreeable effeft to the fight. 



The timber of thefe trees is of excellent ufe in Ame- 

 rica, for building of vellels, wainfcotting houfes, and 

 for making many forts cf utenfils, it aboundino; with 

 a bitter refin, which prevents its being deftroyed by 

 vermin, but itis very brittle, therefore not ib proper for 

 ftubborn ufes ; but however, by increafing the num- 

 ber of our timber trees, we fhall find many advan- 

 \ tages, befides the pleafure their variety affords ; for 

 we may hereby have trees of very different kinds, 

 which are adapted to grow in various foils and fitu- 

 tions, whereby we fhall never want proper trees for all 

 the different forts of foils in England, if proper care 

 be taken in their choice ^ which would be a great im- 

 provement to many parts of this kingdom, which now 

 lie unplanted, becaufe the owner, perhaps, find that 

 neither Oaks nor Elms will thrive there, and confe- 

 quently concludes, that no otherfort of tree will, which 

 is a great miftake ; for if we confider how different the 

 ftrufturc of trees are (being defigned by the wife Au- 

 thor and contriver of all things, to grow on different 

 foils and fituations) and only obferve what forts are 

 adapted for growing on dry barren mountains, and 

 what are defigned for the lower and richer valleys, we 

 need never be at a lofs for propeir trees for all forrs of 

 ground. ^^ ~ 



The Bermudas Cedar being a native of that ifland, 

 and alfo of the Bahama Iflands, js much tenderer than 

 either of the former forts, except that of Jamaica, fo is 

 not likely to thrive well in this country ^ for although 

 many of thefe plants have lived feverai years in the opsa 

 air in England, yet whenever a fevere winter happens, 

 it either kills them, or fo much defaces them, that they 

 do not recover their verdure in a year or two after. 

 Thefe plants are propagated by feeds in the fame 

 manner as the former, with only this difference, that 

 thefe fhould be fown in pots or tubs of earih, that 

 they may be removed into fhelter in the winter time, 

 otherwife the young plants are often hurt by hard 

 frofts ; but they will require no more care than only 

 to be placed under a common hot- bed frame, where 

 the glaffes may be conftantly kept off in mild wea- 

 ther, when they cannot have too much free air, and 

 only covered in hard frofts, Thefe feeds conftantly 

 remain in the ground until the fecond year before they 

 come up, therefore the earth in the pots fhould not 

 be difturbed j and in the fummer time they fhould 

 be placed in the fhade, to prevent the earth from 

 drying too faft ; and in very dry weather they fhould 

 be often watered, but do not give too rnuch water to 

 them at once, which would rot the k^ds, 

 -The fpring following, when the young plants come 

 up, they muft be carefully cleared from weeds, and in 

 dry weather refrefhed with water -, but fhould ftand, 

 during the fummer feafon, in a place defended from, 

 ftrong winds ; and in winter muft be placed under 

 frames, where they may be covered in hard frofty 

 weather, but muft have open air when the weather 

 is mild. In April following you fhould tranfplant them 

 each into a fingle halfpenny pot filled with frefh light 

 earth, being careful to raile them up with a ball of 

 earth to their roots ; and when they are planted, you 

 fhould water them, to fettle the earth to ti-ieir roots ; 

 then place the pots in a warm fituation, v;here they 

 may be defended from fun and wind : but if you will 



beflow a moderate hot-bed to plunge the pots in, it 



will, 



