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lowing. If a garden pot full of HgHf 



rich mould was funk in a convenient place? 



in the border where a young branch could 



be laid, it would foon take root, and 



might be cut cfF from the mother plant 



and removed into fhelter the beginning 



of wiriter. The laying the young branch 



will no ways impede its growth. As foon 



as it has mot ar* inch pinch out the heart, 



it will produce feveral (hoots, and will be 



a fine tree to plant next feafbn. The beft 



feafon to plant figs is the middle of 



March, the roots then are loft and fpungy, 



and often mifcarry if planted in autumn, 



efpecially if the winter is fevere, although 



they fhould be covered. 



I F the layer was iri a pot, the roots 

 fhould be pared off, and the ball put into 

 the ground. The layers that are upon the 

 mother plant mould be planted as foon as 

 pomble after taken off, if in the fame 

 garden, with all their roots, which m-uil 

 be well fpread, for they will be numerous. 

 If they arc to be fome time out of the- 



ground" 



