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HISTORY OF FRUITS. 



winds than the beech, which when so grown is often 

 found to retain its brown leaves all the winter. 



This tree is propagated by sowing the mast, which 

 should be gathered about the middle of September, when 

 they begin to fall, and spread them out on a mat in an 

 airy place for a week to dry, when you may either sow 

 them immediately, or put them into bags to be sown in 

 the spring, when there is less danger of their being des- 

 troyed by vermin. These nuts do not require to be 

 covered more than one inch deep in mould, and it will 

 be observed that only a part of them germinates the first 

 year. 



