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earth; and our impatience at this does often 

 frustrate the resurrection of divers seeds of this 

 nature, so that we frequently dig up and dis- 

 turb the beds where they have been sown, in 

 despair, before they have gone their full time, 

 which is also the reason of a very popular mis- 

 take in other seeds, especially that of the holly, 

 concerning which there goes a tradition, that 

 they will not sprout till they be passed through 

 the maw of a thrush. They come up very well 

 off the berries, treated as I have showed in 

 book I., chap, xxi., and with patience; for 

 as I affirmed, they will sleep sometimes two 

 entire years in their graves ; as will also the 

 seeds of yew, sloe, Phillyrea angustifolia, and 

 sundry others, whose shells are very hard about 

 the small kernels ; but which is wonderfully 

 facilitated by being, as we directed, prepared in 

 beds, and magazines of earth or sand, for a 

 competent time, and then committed to the 

 ground before the full in March ; by which 

 season they will be chitting, and especially take 

 root. Others bury them deep in the ground all 

 winter, and sow them in February. And thus I 

 have been told of a gentleman who has con- 

 siderably improved his revenue, by sowing 

 haws only, and raising nurseries of quicksets, 

 which he sells by the hundred far and near; 

 this is a CQtnrne.nclable industry. 



