Feb.'] PREPARING TREES FOR HEDGE-ROWS. 239 



SOWING SEEDS. 



This is now a proper feafon for fowing feveral 

 forts of tree feeds, efpecially fuch as have been 

 left in the rot heap fince the preceding autumn. 

 If they be allowed to lye beyond this month, they 

 chip, and feldom after make fo fine plants the 

 firfl year after fowing. A better feafon, however, 

 for fowing from the rot heap is in September ; 

 which fee. 



Sowing Haivs. 



Choofe a piece of the lighted and richeft land 

 whereon to fow them : If it be not very rich, 

 a fupply of freih dung mould be added. Let it 

 be well dug, and broke in the digging, and raked 

 fine, to the depth of the propofed cuffing, at 

 leaft. 



If it be propofed to fow in beds, they fhould 

 be three feet four, or three feet fix inches broad ; 

 and cuffed, fo as to allow a covering of one inch 

 deep. The operation of cuffing is performed as 

 follows. After the ground is dug, and raked fine 

 as above, meafure the purpofed width ; ftretch 

 the garden line, and run it off along the fide by 

 the tread of your feet ; return with one foot in 

 the tread of the other, and fo as to form an alley 



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