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earth only fhould be taken off, to give room 

 for the new fibres to flioot out. 



You may now fow Evergreen Oak Acorns^ 

 and the feeds of Firs, Pines, Cedars, Cyprefs, 

 Magnolias, Tulip tree ; as alfo feeds of moil 

 exotick trees, which are brought from Caro- 

 lina, Virginia, and the more northern parts 

 of America. The particular diredions for do- 

 ing this are exhibited in the Gardeners 

 Dictionary. 



The beginning of this rnonth yovi may graft 

 Hollies, and about the middle you may inarch 

 Firs, Pines, Junipers, <Sf^.'by which method fome 

 of the fcarce forts of evergreen trees rnay be pro- 

 pagated ; but the trees thus raifed will never 

 grow fo large as thofe raifed from feeds, the 

 ftocks feldom keeping pace in their growth 

 with the trees inarched, fo that they are in 

 danger of being blov^n out 5 for which reafon, 

 \yhenever this is pradifed, the inarchment 

 fhould be as near the ground as poffibl^. 



You fliould nqw look oyer your grafts, and 

 dbferve, where the loam is much cracked, to, 

 renew it, left the drying winds penetrate to the 

 grafts, and deftroy them. Likewife the buds 

 of fuch trees which are now H^iooting, fliould 

 be carefully looked over, and where you ob- 

 fcrve their tops infefted with infefts, and their 

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