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If you sow them in beds immediately after they are 

 excarnated, they will appear the following Spring, 

 and then at two years shoot, be fit to plant out where 

 you please ; otherwise, being kept too long e'er you 

 sow them, they will sleep two Winters: And this is a 

 rule, which he prescribes for all sorts of stone-fruit. 



You may almost at any time remove young cherry- 

 trees, abating the heads to a single shoot. 



He recommends it for the copse, as producing a 

 strong shoot, and as apt to put forth from the roots, 

 as the elm ; especially, if you fell lusty trees : In light 

 ground it will increase to a goodly tall tree, of which 

 he mentions one, that held above 85 foot in height : 

 I have my self planted of them, and imparted to my 

 friends, which have thriv'd exceedingly ; but till now 

 did not insert it among the foresters : The vertues of 

 the fruit of this cherry-tree against the epilepsy, palsy, 

 and convulsions, fc. are in the spirits and distill'd 

 waters. Concerning its other uses, see the chapter 

 and section above-mentioned, to which add pomona, 

 Chap. 8. annexed with this treatise. This tree affords 

 excellent stocks for the budding and graffing of other 

 cherries on. 



And here I might mention the bitter cherry of 

 Canada, (tho* exceedingly unlike to ours) which would 

 yet be propagated for the incomparable liquor it is 

 said to yield, preferable to the best limonade, by an 

 incision of two inches deep in the stem, and sloping 

 to the length of a foot, without prejudice to the tree. 

 What is said of it, and of the maple, in the late dis- 

 covery of the North-America, may be seen in the late 

 description of those countries. For other exotic 

 species, v. Ray Dendrolog. Tom. in. p. 45, 46. 



