33 a THE NURSERY. 



Spruce, are the principal kinds which are opened oy 

 kiln heat. The cones of the Silver Fir., the Baim 

 of Gilead Fir, and the Weyniouth Pine, give out 

 their feeds with very little troublv ; indeed, if 

 they be not gathered jboa in autumn, and k.pt 

 f n m ieverc drought, they will full to pieces of 

 their own accord^ In Scotland, we have very 

 trees of the Stone Pine, the Pinafter or Cluitcr 

 Pine, or the Weynoura Pine, that produce feeds; 

 We are therefore fupplied with feeds of thefefrorn 

 England. Seeds of the White American Spruce 

 are procured from fome warm lituations in Eng- 

 land, and alfo from America, and are generally 

 fold in a clean ftate, or feparated from the cones. 

 Cones of the Black and Red Spruce are brou h ht 

 from America, and fold in the ftate of cones in 

 England and Scotland. The cones fhould be fplit, 

 and expofed in a fieve tilled before a gentle fire, 

 with a fheet of paper below the fieve to receive 

 the feeds as they fall out. The feeds fhould be 

 removed every quarter of an hour; becaufe they 

 are fmall, and are very eafily injured by the heat* 



Cedar of Lebanon. 



The cones fhould be kept for one y^ar at leaft ? 

 after they are taken from the tree, before the feed 

 be attempted to be taken out. This is neceifary, 



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