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and fhrubs, being careful to cover them with 

 earth ; for if any of them are left expofed, it 

 will entice mice, and other vermin, whereby 

 your feeds may be eaten up, and your whole 

 feminary deftroyed. 



Toward the latter end of this month, if the 

 fpring proves forward, and the weather is mild, 

 you fhculd cut off the heads of your flocks, 

 which were budded with fruit the preceding 

 fummer, at about four or five inches above the 

 buds, always obferving to cut the flock Hoping 

 from the bud, that when the buds (hoot, thev 

 may not be injured by the flowing of the fap 

 from the wounded part of the ftock. 



If this month proves mild, tov/ard the end 

 cfityou muft graft Cherries, Plums, Pears, 

 Apples, and other hardy fruits ^ but if there are 

 hard frofts, and drying winds, it will be bet- 

 ter to defer it a httle later : for fuch weather 

 is often very deftru^tive to grafts. 



You may yet plant cuttings of Currants, 

 Goofeberries, and other trees v/hich will grow 

 from cuttings, in fliady borders, obferving to 

 clofe the earth well about them \ and if the 

 ground between them is covered with mofs ©r 

 fliort litter, it v»'il! prevent the drying winds of 

 March from penetrating the ground, which 

 frequently kill thefe late planted cuttings, 



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