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forth of roots , andmofl fafefrom exceiTive heat oi 

 cold, 



N. t^ Of propagation by CircumpoftiGn, 



Circumpoiition is a kind of laying, the difference 

 is, that hi this, the mould is born up to the bough 

 Vvhich is to be taken off: in laying the bough is 

 to be depreffed into the mould. Wee ufe this mott in 

 Apples afre: this manner , firft break- the bough a lit- 

 tle above the place where tis feparated from the main 

 fio;k or arm ,fo that the hat or otherVeflell that holds 

 up the Mould to. the incifion or difbarked place may 

 red upon the ftock , then flit an hat, an old boot, or 

 take any (Irong peiceof old courfe cl oat buying or fow- 

 ing it fo ftrongly that it may be able to hold up the 

 mould to th,e inci (ion , fometime before you fill this 

 cap with, mould, remember with an awle or point of 

 3 penknife, to. bore two rovves of holes upontfieup- 

 iide of the cut about half an inch or more , one from 

 another , then fill it with good mould , or fuch as is 

 agreeable to the tree you work upon, and in the heat 

 of iumme: , water it now and then, The time of this 

 operation is not in the fummer , as Mr. P. fuppofcs 

 (which miihke was fufficient caufe why he fhould not 

 like the experiment) but in the fpring before the fap 

 rifes,parciculariy in Tcbr. or the beginning of March- 

 Such plants are-, prepayable this way that might take 

 by laying , but that the branches are roo farre rifen 

 from the ground to be laid along therein ; and there- 

 for it becomes neceffary, fince they cannot ftoope to 

 ■the ea.rch, that the earth fhould be lifted up to them, 



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