64- OF PROPAGATION. SECT. V. 



immediately and neatly level with a, wide rake, draw- 

 ing off (tones, &c. but do it lightly, to avoid driving in 

 the teeth of the rake, which would remove the feed, 

 and make it come up irregularly. 



Patches, or fmall pieces, are fometimes (own with- 

 out trampling, particularly of flowers, by drawing fome 

 of the mould on one fide, and then lowing and cover- 

 ing the proper depth with what earth was drawn off, 

 adding a little more, if neceffary. In this cafe, if the 

 foil is not heavy and wet, prefs the furface with the 

 rake head, fpade, or otherwise. Seeds fown in drills, 

 or rows, are feldom preffed, but they mould be, 

 efpecially if the foil be light; and even beans fet by a 

 dibble, are beft to have The earth preffed about them 

 with it, or afterwards with the rake head, and they 

 will fupport themfelves more ereftly, for the leaft wind 

 rocks them about when in loofe holes, and hurts the 

 crop : In a light foil, the beft way is to lay them in a 

 trench, and trample firmly in. 



Directions for thinning feedling crops, and pricking m 

 them out in time, were given in the laft fection. Let 

 this bufinefs be done properly, and prick out enow, 

 that there may be fome to fpare; perhaps a neighbour 

 may be obliged thereby, and at any rate it is beft to 

 have plenty left accidents happen. 



Propagation by fuckers is a mode of culture rather 

 peculiar to trees and fhrubs. The things to be obferved 

 in this bufinefs are, to take them up with fome care 

 from the mother plant, fo as not to injure its root, nor 

 the fucker's own root, by pulling it up without pro- 

 perly loofening it firft. The earth fhould be moved 

 afide by a trowel, and then the fucker cut off by a 

 knife y and not with a fpade , as is common. Of thofe 

 hardy things that there is plenty of, this rough way 

 does not fignify much, as to the fucker, but it may 

 injure the root too much that it comes from. Where- 

 ever a root appears barked-, the part below fhould be 

 cut off. If it is defiied 10 fucceed well, in propagating 



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