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though we here recommend the fowing of the 

 Birch at this time, it may alfo be fown direct 

 from the tree in the end of Augufl or beginning 

 of September. But fuch rife fometimes too early 

 for a Scots climate : It is proper, therefore, to 

 referve the principal part of the fowing till about 

 the firfl week of April. It is difficult to fay how 

 thick Birch and Alder feeds mould be fown, it being 

 no eafy thing to know their quality. It is better, 

 however, to fow pretty thick, and to thin them 

 out the following fpring, if necefiary. 



Sowing Beech. 



The Beech, like the fycamore and the elm, is 

 very liable to be killed by late frofls in the fpring. 

 It would therefore be very proper to withhold 

 the fowing of a part of the beech mad till the firfl 

 or fecond week in April. There is danger, how- 

 ever, in keeping it longer out of the ground than 

 the middle of April : For if fevere drought fet in, 

 it will not rife till the following fpring, and fo 

 have a great chance to perifh by the froft. 



Beech mad mould never be fown in poor land, 

 The foil moft fit for it, is fuch as we have de- 

 fcribed as fit for elm feeds : only the land for the 

 beech may receive a drefling of fmali dung pre- 

 vious to the fowing of the feeds. Care muft be 

 had not to fow the feeds too thick, and efpecially 

 i if 



