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February or the beginning of March. They should 

 then be sown in pots filled with light fresh mold, and 

 plunged in a moderately warm hot-bed ; they will 

 come up in from four to six weeks, and when the 

 plants are about six inches high, they should be 

 transplanted singly, into forty-eights, and afterward 

 into pots of a larger size. "Water gently, as circum- 

 stances require, allow abundance of light and air, 

 and carefully avoid injuring any of the leaves. Cut 

 down the plants every autumn to two good buds, and 

 suffer only one of these to extend itself in the fol- 

 lowing spring. Shift into larger pots as occasion 

 requires, till they have produced fruit. This, under 

 good management, will take place in the fourth or 

 fifth year, when the approved sorts should .be 

 selected, and the rest destroyed, or used^s stocks on 

 which to graft or inarch good sorts." 



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