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fuch as are not apt to leave any remains to dirty 

 the ground during the fummer. Hence, potatoes 

 are very improper as a preparing crop ; but let- 

 tuces, fpinage, onions, turnips, or the like, are 

 very proper preparing crops. 



If the Elms be intended for two-year feedlings, 

 which in mod cafes is the preferable age, they 

 fhould be fown very thin, in order that the plants 

 may rife flout and vigorous. If they rife too 

 thick the firft year, they are for feveral years af- 

 ter fenfibly affected, continuing weaker, although 

 carefully- thinned out. 



The beft form of fowing Elms is in beds, as 

 previoufly advifed for haws in laft month. The 

 covering of foil mould not be more than half an 

 inch thick. 



Sowing Laburnums. 



Laburnums, both the tree and the fhrubby 

 forts, being very hardy, may now be fown. There 

 is no plant we know more liable to be hurt, or 

 indeed more generally hurt, by thick fowing, 

 than this. The feeds are generally good, and 

 confequently fure growers. When they rife very 

 thick, they lofe their leaves about midfummer, 

 become mildewed, and die. 



Laburnums of neither of the forts fhould be 

 fown to rife nearer to one another than an inch ; 



and 





