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also be performed to the same advantage in the laying of trees and 

 shrubs in general. Or you may give the young shoot a twist in that 

 part which you intend laying in the earth, by which method it will 

 root more freely than if laid down without it. 



Those which are layed in this or next month will be tolerably well 

 rooted by next autumn, and may then be separated from the tree, 

 and planted in the nursery to get strength. 



Cuttings of many kinds of flowering shrubs and trees may also still 

 be planted ; and there are vast numbers of plants that may be propa- 

 gated by this method. There is hardly any tree or shrub but what 

 may be increased either by this method, or by layers or suckers from 

 the root. 



The manner of propagating trees or shrubs by cuttings is this : 

 the cuttings must be young shoots of the last year's growth, which 

 must be cut with a sharp knife from the tree or shrub you desire to 

 propagate j they must be from about six or eight to twelve or fifteen 

 inches long, according to their strength and manner of growth ; let 

 them be planted in rows eighteen inches asunder, and from five to 

 eight inches distance in the row, and every cutting inserted two- 

 thirds of its length into the ground. 



Propagate gooseberries and currants by cuttings, as directed in 

 October ; and prune such of the old plants as require it, agreeably 

 to the directions given in this and that month. 



In open weather, you should, as much as possible, forward the 

 digging and trenching vacant compartments of ground, where young 

 trees and shrubs are to be planted in this and next month. 



Now prepare some ground where it is not wet, for the reception of 

 stones and kernels of hardy fruits, to raise a supply of stocks for the 

 purpose of budding and grafting upon. 



These may be sown any time this month, observing to sow them 

 in beds four feet wide ; cover the stones an inch and a half deep with 

 earth, and the kernels half an inch : the plants will appear in March, 

 April, and May, when they must be kept clean from weeds, and mode- 

 rate watering in dry weather will be serviceable when they are newly 

 come up. Some of them will be fit for transplanting in nursery rows 

 next November. 



Sow the various kinds of hawthorn, holly, red cedar, yew, meze- 

 reon, juniper, sweet bay, English and Portugal laurel berries j like- 

 wise the seeds of hornbeam, ash, spindle-tree, bladder-nut, and all 

 the other kinds of tree and shrub seeds which require a year's prepa- 

 ration previous to sowing, as noticed in February. The sooner now 

 these kinds of seeds are sown the better, provided the ground be dry, 

 and that it works loose and light. 



For particular instructions respecting the sowing of these seeds, 

 &c., see February and March. 



