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The common, with narrower leaves, hairy only on the edge and 

 veins underneath: the fruit smaller. 

 And the upright Laurustinus. 



Culture. — These plants may some of them be increased by seeds, 

 most of them by layers, many by cuttings, and a few by suckers. 



The seeds in the deciduous kinds should be sown in the autumn 

 or spring in beds of light fine mould, being well covered in. The 

 plants appear in the first or second year, and when ihey are of a 

 (welvemonlh's growth they should be planled out in nursery-rows, 

 to be continued till of proper growth to plant out in the shrubberies 

 or other parts of pleasure-grounds, as from two to five feet. 



In the Laurustinus kinds, the seeds after being mixed with mould 

 in the autumn soon after they become ripe, and exposed to the ai'" 

 and rain in the winter, should in the spring be sown on a gentle hot- 

 bed, or in pots plunged into it; the plants being continued in the 

 bed till the autumn, when they should be removed and managed as 

 in the layer method. The plants raised in this way are said to be 

 hardier than those raised from layers. 



The first sort is tedious in being raised from seeds. 

 In the layer, which is the most expeditious mode of raising most 

 of these plants, the young lower branches should be laid down in 

 the autumn or spring, being pegged down in the usual manner in 

 the earth, when they mostly l)ecome well rooted in a twelvemonth, 

 and may then be taken oft' and planted out where they are to remain, 

 or in the nurser}^; and sometimes, in some of the kinds, a few are 

 put in pots. 



The best season for removing the tenth sort is in the early autumn, 

 that they may be well rooted before the winter. 



'J'he first sort succeeds best by layers put down in the autumn. 

 And the striped variety may be increased by budding it upon the 

 plain sort. 



The cuttings may be made in the autumn from the strong young- 

 shoots, being planted in a moist border in rows, when in the following 

 summer many of them will be well rooted, and form little plants. 

 Most of the deciduous sorts may be raised in this way. 



