THE SCOTS GARDENER 



expose to the sun till they open, and seeds fall out, 

 are to be sowen in March ; but, if late before they 

 come home, (they require the summer sun to open 

 them), if you then sow, they cannot get strength 

 sufficient to withstand the ensuing winter ; there- 

 fore keep them in dry sand all winter, and sow them 

 in the spring, for they rise that season where in they 

 are sowed. They love a good and tender soil ; they 

 are something tender while young, (as all greens 

 are) ; the great pine is tenderer than pinasters, and 

 nice in transplanting ; therefore observe the rule 

 in Chap. VII. Shade and shelter in both extremi- 

 ties of heat and cold while young. But there is none 

 so proper for us as, 



The Scots firre : many a one of their husks have I 

 gathered any time between January and the latter 

 end of March ; lay them on a cloth in the sun which 

 opens them, to be sowen the latter end of Aprile 

 They come up that season, and love a soil with the 

 pinus. See how to order in nurserie : for they must 

 be dibbled in again the first year, as spued up by 

 frosts. They of any tree will grow on most sorts of 

 ground, if well ordered and prepared, and secured 

 from drought the first year. And therefore help 

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