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that is quite rotten there can be no vege- 

 tation ; and if no art is ufed they take a 

 year ; but as foon as they are pulled, if 

 they were mixed with frefh grains, and 

 turned over every three or four days for 

 one month, and then lay all winter covered, 

 fo that no frorr. can come at them, and 

 turned over fometimes to prevent moul- 

 dinefs, which would deftroy them, they 

 may then be fown in the fpring with the 

 fame fuccefs as if they had been buried a 

 whole year. 



THE only danger in having tree-feeds 

 fprouted before they are (own, is having 

 their fprouts rubbed off in fowing ; but of 

 this, unleis the perfons employed are ex- 

 traordinarily heedlefs, there is no danger. 



THE proper time for fowing Hawthorn 

 and Holly-berries, that have been buried 

 a. year, is the beginning of March ; but 

 by the hurry of other fpring bufmefs, it 

 may be fometimes the middle of April 

 before they can be fown; by that time they 



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