i;^ SHRL'BS AND TREES. 



of them may be fpoiled by the wet, froft, 

 and vermin ; obferving, that in preparation 

 for fowing, the feeds contained in cones, 

 fruits, pods, capfules, and otner velTels, mult 

 be taken out, alfo where feveral are contained 

 in berries, thofe fhould be bruifed or rubbed 

 between the hands to feparate the feeds ; but 

 the acorns, and nuts, alfo the (tones obtained 

 from their fruits, are to be fowed whole as 

 they are ; and in fome forts of feeds contained 

 in berries, being of a very hard boney nature, 

 they are fometimes two years before they 

 grow, fuch as haws and holly berries, yew, &:c. 

 are, previous to fowing, fcmetimes buried \r 

 a trench in th€ ground, or in large pots, 

 plunged therein, and covered with earth 

 ridged over them a foot thick; and thus re- 

 maining a year, preparing in vegetation, 

 then being taken up, and fowcd in the Spring, 

 they come up the fame year, though they 

 may alfo be fowed at once, in Autumn, or 

 Spring, in beds, and will come up the fecond 

 Spring after ; however, molt forts (except of 

 the above very hard itony kinds) come up the 

 firft Spring. 



For fowing the different forts of feeds, 

 prepare beds of light earth four feet wide, 

 and in which fome may be fowed in drills, 

 one, two, or three inches deep, efpecially all 

 the nuts, ftones, and acorns, and other large 

 feeds, the drills fix inches to a foot afunder; 

 or may be bedded in by raking one, two, or 

 three inches depth of earth off the beds into 

 the alleys, fow the feed over the furface of 



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