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cuttings, but all the hard wooded kinds, are much better with- 

 out it. 



For this purpose, dig one or more beds, or shady borders, Sec. 

 where the ground is somewhat mellow, and not wet ; let the earth 

 be well broken with the spade, and rake the surface smooth. 



Take off the cuttings, with your knife, from the trees or shrubs 

 that you want to increase ; let them be of the last summer's shoots, 

 cutting them off from about six or eight to ten or fifteen inches 

 long, according as they may occur in the different sorts of trees, 

 &c. ; plant them in rows, each cutting about half or two thirds of 

 its length, into the ground, close the earth well about them, and in 

 dry weather let them be occasionally watered. 



The Tacamahaca, white, black, trembling, Lombardy, Canada, 

 Athenian, Carolina, heart-leaved, smooth-leaved, and various leaves 

 poplars, and all the varieties of willow, may be propagated in this 

 way ; also, the Plane-tree, Tupelo-tree, Mulberry, and Alder ; with 

 the Sea-Buckthorn, Elder,Tamarisk, some kinds of Solanum, Honey- 

 suckles, Diervilla, Privet, Trumpet-flower, Virgins-bower, Caroli- 

 na Kidney-bean tree, Passion-flower, Jasmine, Periploca, Yew, Ju- 

 niper, Savin, Arbor-Vitac, Portugal and English Laurels, and an 

 immense number of other trees and shrubs. 



Cuttings of all sorts planted a year ago, and that are well rooted, 

 may now be transplanted, or quartered out into open nursery rows, 

 to advance in proper growth, and to have occasional training for the 

 purposes intended. 



Grafting Forest-Trees and Ornamental Shrubs. 



The latter end of this month, will be a good time to graft the va- 

 rious kinds of forest trees, flowering and ornamental shrubs, which 

 you mean to propagate in that way ; such as Elms, Ash, Oaks, 

 Hollies of various kinds, Robinia's double flowering thorns, althea's 

 and Cherries, Sec. there are very few hard wooded plants but will 

 take in this way, when grafted on stocks of their own families, and 

 indeed there are many instances of plants taking on stocks of a dif- 

 ferent genus, as the pear on the whitethorn, the peach on the 

 plum, &c. &c, 



Sowing -various kinds of Tree and Shrub Seeds. 



For the different kinds of trees and shrubs that may be propaga- 

 ted by seeds, and not herein mentioned, see the catalogues annexed 

 to the end of this book. 



Transplanting young Trees and Shrubs. 



All hardy kinds of deciduous trees and shrubs, may now be trans- 

 planted, either into nursery rows, or finally where intended to re- 

 main ; always observing to do this in mild weather, and when the 

 ground works freely and is in a good condition to receive them. In 

 the middle, and particularly in the eastern states, the removal of 



