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PRODUCTION 



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Sect. XV. i. 







or a little more, as it may happen, above it. Thefc cuttings we 

 plant by half a dozen or a dozen together, at the diftance of three, 

 lour, or five inches, in the bark-bed, where it is pretty warm, but not 

 io hot as to endanger the burning of the roots, when they fhall come 



we water them. W 



pretty moid, or elf( 



c 



plant them Hoping fo as to make an 



gle of about thirty d 



o 



perhaps, a li.ttle more or lefs, with the horizon, the eye being higheft 



It an inch with th 



b 



that it alfo fliall be covered abo 



\ 



baik, which is a very neceflary precaution ; for though it ouoht juft 

 to Jinell ihe frefli air, it muil be kept moid', to prevent the bud and 

 (hoot, when it comes. 



from drying; other wife 



very fre 



quently die away prefently after it has fliot a little, or at befl 

 grow unkindly, not having yet made roots fufliclent to fupply 



^ 



the fap necefiary fo 



fupp 



which 



be the cafe, if th 



bud is fufficiently covered at firft, and till it has acquired more 

 We generally plant our vines in this way, about the begii 



middle of January 



d if the bark is pretty warm, and 



ft 



n I 



it fiiould be, the cuttings will begin to pufli both at top and bottom 

 in about a fortnight or three weeks at the moft. When the vines 

 have fliot a little, perhaps three or four inches, but before the roots 



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are got too long, (in which cafe it would be impoffible to avoid break- 

 ing them by removing, on account of their extreme tendernefs and 

 brittlenefs) we difplace a good deal of the bark very near them till 



w th 



d 



all 



together, which fhakes the bark very 

 gently from their roots ; fo that one may difengage them fufficiently 

 eafy, and without much hurting them. We then plant three or 

 four of the moll: promifing and thriving ones out of the whole num- 

 ber fingly in fmall pots in earth, which has previoudy flood in the 



hot-houfe a day 

 a little earth at 



m, letting the roots drop d 



bottom, at firtl 



they conveniently 



then covering them with more earth carefully, till th 



perly filled, and the flem about three or four inch 



pot 



long, 



as 



I, and 



; pro- 

 Ifajd 

 before. 



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