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be hard to get them up without Injur'-ng their fibres, than 

 which nothing is more injurious to thefe trees. And 

 here I fliall give a very necenary caution for all quick 

 growing trees, that the firll year alt°r they rile, they 

 mufl: be tranipliinted from the fted-bed ir.to the nurfery, 

 where they muft remain no longer than two years; for 

 if they become very tall before you plant them out into 

 the places where they are to fti^nd, they feldom thrive 

 well. 



No tree whatever is more hardy, after it is planted 

 out, than the Peafe-cod tree; and if it be planted in 

 ground it delights in, it will become very large ; fome 

 I have fown, grew to fuch a fize, that tea tables 

 have been made of one plank of the wood. The wood 

 is of a bright yellow colour, with blackifh purple veins, 

 and far exceeds the prettieft Mahogony I ever faw. 



The Lime. 



TH E firft feeds of this tree I ever raifed, were fent 

 me as a prefent from a gentleman in England. 

 With them I received the following letter of directions 

 how to ufe them : 



''SIR, 

 *' / have fent you half a pound of Lime-tree feeds per^ 

 *' fcFih ripe, which is pretty extraordinary, as they fel~ 

 *' dom ripen thoroughly with us. As a great deal depends 

 *' upon the direBions how and when to fow them, I pall 

 *< gi'-oe you a few, which I hope you will find ufjul. No 

 *' tree is fo tender when it is young, as the Lime: After 

 ** it is fown, it lies twelve months in the ground bej ore the 

 ** feedlings appear, and rifes precifely within four or five 

 ** days of that day when in the preceding year it was fown : 

 *' therefore I wtuld advife you to fow the feds about the 

 *' twentieth of May, keeping them dear from weeds, and 

 " watering the beds in dry weather, even before they come 

 *' up. In winter lay a confidcrahle quantity of IFheat- 

 ** firaw upon the beds where you fow them, to protec^t them 

 *« from frofl, and you will fee your fieJs lome vp -within 



*' tw» 



