j8o SHRUBS AND TREES. 



them water in Summer. They will be rooted 

 after one Summer's growth, and have made 

 (hoots at top ; when, in Oftober, November, 

 or following Spring, or after another year's 

 growth, the large ones may be tranfplanted at 

 wider diftances, to remain to attain proper 

 fize for final tranfplanting, as obferved of the 

 feedling-raifed plants and fuckers. 



In propagating by cuttings, it may be pro- 

 per to obferVe, that few of the cone-bearing 

 trees fucceed well by that method, fuch as 

 pines, firs, cedars, junipers, cyprefs, &c. be- 

 ing principally raifed from feed. 



By layers likewife of the young fhoots, 

 many forts of trees and Ihrubs are propagated 

 abundantly ; performing it in the Autumn or 

 Spring, on the lower young (hoots and 

 branches, as they remain on the parent trees 

 and Ihrubs, bending down the fhoots, or the 

 pliable branches well furnifhed with young 

 wood for laying, pegging them down with 

 hooked Hicks in a cavity made in the earth ; 

 then, generally, let each ftioot for laying be 

 paihed or flit a little on the under fide, by a 

 clean cut upward about an inch in leHgth, 

 which promotes their rooting more freely, 

 layintr that part in the earth two to three or 

 four iliches deep, keeping the galh open, and 

 the top of the layers a few inches above 

 Pround, pegging down the Item of each le- 

 curely and earth them over the above depth. 

 They in moil forts will be rooted in one 

 Summer, though fome will be twO years be- 

 fore that is eiFeded ; when, m Autumn or 



Spring, 



