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and fo difpofe your feeds and earth alternately, ftratum fuper ftratum, until the box be full; 
then nail down the lid and let it be placed between decks. As foon as you get the box from 
the fhip after it comes to England, feparate the feeds from the earth through a wire fieve, fpread- 
- them out and let them remain fo a day or two till they are dry; then put them in a bafon of | 
lukewarm water ; by which means the found feeds will be proved by their finking to the bottom,. 
and the bad ones by their floating. In whatever month they arrive, fow them immediately in 
the following manner: Procure earthen pans, or fhallow tubs filled with earth, in which fow 
the feeds thick, if your plenty of them will admit of it, even lefs than an inch from one 
another; place them ina hot bed moderately warm, and keep them moift. In about two 
months they may be expected to appear above ground, though that is uncertain; for in pro- 
portion to their warm or cold fituation in the fhip, their growing will be forwarded or retarded, 
and they will come up fooner or later. After they are come up, let them have the fun but 
{paringly, and that principally in the morning, with frequent waterings; and as they increafe 
| in growth, harden them by degrees againft the approach of winter, in which feafon, when the 
weather proves moderate, the glaffes may be taken off; but as they are impatient of cold while 
they, are young, and their top-fhoots are liable to be nipped, care muft be taken that they be 
not too much expofed, for the lofs of their top-fhoot is a deformity they never out -grow, 
though they 1 may furvive it. ‘This caution of preferving their leading buds is continually to be 
obferved till the bignefs of the tree makes it lefS praéticable: in March, or the beginning of 
April, tranfplant them from their genial beds into deeper pots, five or fix in a pot, or in pro- 
portion to the fize of the pot; this caufes lefs trouble, and retards not their growth more than 
if one alone was in a pot, till they become of fit fize to require a pot for every one. : 
_ Though thefe plants while young are very tender and require attendance, being arrived to 
the height of two feet they will endure our fevereft winters ; of which we had fufficient proof . 
in the year 1740, when ten or a dozen of thefe fmall trees growing in the open ground 
without any protection were very little injured by that excefflive cold winter; whilft at the 
fame time and place feveral hundreds of the fame kind, planted i in fingle pots, which were 
coy ered with reeds and double matted, a arat one, notwithftanding this feeming 
fecurity. 
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