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perhaps a week longer, greatly to the injury of 

 the plants, and more efpecially if they be very 

 dry. The experience of every feafon points out 

 the deftrudive effe&s of not attending to the pre- 

 caution of immediate plunging in the earth. 



Elder, Poplar, and Willow cuttings muft now 

 be provided and planted out. If circumftances 

 render the planting of them at this time impof- 

 fible, th'ey may be ftuck fmgly into a fpot of very 

 damp foft earth, where they will remain fafely for 

 two or three weeks. Cuttings fo treated, fend out 

 their young roots probably before they can be re- 

 moved : in which cafe, care fhould be had to 

 plant them out in damp, or even rainy weather ; 

 becaufe the young fibres are ill able to endure the 

 violence of fpring droughts. When fuch cut- 

 tings are to be lifted for planting, they fhould be 

 eafed with the fpade a in order to prefer ve every 

 T6ot entire* 



PLANTING SEEDLINO BJRCHES AND ALDERS. 



The Birch is of very early growth, and re- 

 quires to be attended to immediately. The pro- 

 per foil for Birches, as has already been hinted, 

 Is fuch as is finely parted and mofly. They ought 

 not to be committed to land of a clayey nature 

 in their infant (late ; they will do pretty well in a 

 foft fandy earth, but not nearly fo well as in their 

 awn natural loofe arid mofly foil. 



