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Holly-berries from England, and from diftant 

 places in Scotland, and have found them liable 

 to heat, from which they have fuftained much 

 injury. When they are brought from a great 

 clirjance, they fhould be packed up in fin all, or 

 long narrow hampers ; and there fhould not be 

 more than a bufhel of berries in each hamper. 



OATHERING HORNBEAM SEEDS. 



Hornbeam feeds are now ripe. They need 

 v fcarcely, however, be fought for in the planta- 

 tions of Scotland ; for, although there are many 

 line trees, cones are feldom or never found upon 

 them in this country. They ripen freely in Eng- 

 land. 



The feeds readily feparate from the nuts or 

 cones, and fliould be fown as foon after being ga- 

 thered as poffible. Many of the feeds will germi- 

 nate the firfl year after fowing, and all of them 

 the fecond. 



GATHERING SPANISH CHESNUTS, 



Spanifh Chefnuts fliould be ripe at this time $ 

 but we have never found them ripe in Scotland. 

 They are therefore procured from England and 

 from Spain. Thofe that come from Spain are by 

 far the bed. They mould, where practicable, be 

 fown immediately from the trees; and, confe- 

 <3uently, they fhould be committed to the ground 



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