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than in five or six years from the plants, I need say 

 little, as what you have lost this season you will 

 gain next ; nor will you be wanting in growths 

 through the autumn, now when the season is set in 

 moist. As a proof of this, you need only look back 

 to former years. To those who have only tried 

 the system of layering for the first time this sea- 

 son, I beg to say, you must not despair, as it has 

 been proved, to a demonstration, to succeed. 

 Where you have depth of soil, you will have 

 growths yet in autumn, but particularly in spring ; 

 but I observe, what you say, that where the soil is 

 very bare, and particularly where you have laid 

 the layer over rocks, the branch or layer seems in 

 many cases to lie dead; nothing else than this 

 could be expected in a season like this, not having 

 a drop of rain or moisture since layered in, and no 

 depth of soil to make the fibres stretch for roots j 

 this will be particularly the case where the incision 

 in the layer has been much cut through, as by this 

 means the sap or nourishment from the old stools 

 is completely cut off, which should have supplied 

 it till the fibres in the layer became roots, which is 

 not, nor can it be expected, till the layers have had 

 a whole year's growth. In this case, a spadeful 

 of fresh earth should immediately, during this 

 month if possible, be laid on them, and the pins 

 well firmed in. The laying a little fresh earth on 

 them, I mean only in all bare rocky places, will 

 preserve them and keep them moist till next sea- 

 son ; taking care not to disengage the layer from 

 the old stool ; and although they may receive but 



