464 The Gardener's New Director. 



*' ituo or three days before or after the twentieth of May 

 *' follovoing. T^^cy may remain in the feed-bed two years y 

 *' and then it ivill be proper to plaJit them out in the nur- 

 ** fe7'y. Give them plenty of room therein, and let them 

 *' remain there for four years, and when you plant them 

 " out, he fure to give them a rich loam. By following 

 *' thefe directions, your trees can Jcarcely fail of growing 

 *' to a. very great fize. Obferve one thing particularly ■, not 

 *' to plant them deep ; for by that error I have lofi more plants 

 *' than any other way." 



Conformable to this direciion I managed my trees, 

 and had a good number of the fined; plants, raifed from 

 feed, I ever faw, far exceeding thofe raifed from layers. 



It is remarkable in this tree, that fuch as you raife 

 from layers will feldom or never produce feeds. Their 

 layers, are rooted in twelve months, and may then be 

 planted out into a nurfery, where they may {land four 

 years, after which they mufl: be tranfplanted out into the 

 places where they are to fland, in the fame manner as the 

 feedlings above mentioned. 



I come now to treat of Aquatic Trees. 



The Alder, or Aller. 



I Have often heard that this tree has been raifed from 

 feeds, but I never practifed it. My way of raifing 

 it was from fuckers, which grow in great plenty in thofe 

 grounds, where the old trees were cut ; but though this 

 be my practice, yet I cannot much approve of it, for 

 the fuckers are very long before they become fit for any 

 ufe. Therefore, the befl: method I know to raife them 

 is: Take a middle aged tree, which is twiggy about its 

 fides; cut it in pieces four feet long; fharpen the cut- 

 tings at the ends, but do not take away the fide twigs 

 from them. In the month of November thruft them in- 

 to a fwanipy piece of ground, two feet down, and the 

 year following you will obferve them fhoot ftrong. In 

 two years after this, if they produce no more than one 

 ilioot upward, cut that down to within three buds of the 



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