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up the roots too hastily. This tree should 

 never have a branch taken from it but in the 

 spring. The directions for raising these trees 

 from seed, are given in the same manner by 

 all writers on the subject, from Pliny down to 

 Miller. It is to gather the fruit when quite 

 ripe, which is not before January or February. 

 The berries are then to be preserved in dry 

 sand, until the middle of March, when they 

 may be sown in a shady border of rich loose 

 undunged earth. The berries should be 

 dropped in rows, as French beans are planted, 

 and covered with fine rich mould about an 

 inch thick. The young plants will require 

 frequent, but moderate watering, for the two 

 first years. The French nurserymen raise 

 them under glass, or in an orangery. 



The bay-tree will grow by cuttings, but 

 these should be planted in a moderate hot 

 bed, and kept moist, and covered from the 

 heat of the sun during summer, and from 

 the frost in winter. April is the proper time 

 to plant cuttings, but layers may be laid down 

 either in March or August; which, by the 

 second spring, will make good plants. 



The variegated bay is increased by budding 

 it on the common sort. Neither the broad 

 nor the narrow leaved varieties are so hardy as 

 the common bay. 



