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winter to rot off the enveloping- matter, and sown in 

 spring ; in each of these cases the plant makes its ap- 

 pearance the second year, whereas if the pulp is allowed 

 to dry round the nuts, and these are kept in that state 

 till the following- spring-, none of them will vegetate till 

 the third year. After remaining in the seed bed a couple 

 of years they should be run into rows, and undergo the 

 usual routine of the nursery till they are two or three 

 feet high, or even much larger, as no tree transplants 

 with greater certainty of success than the Yew, from 

 the mass of succulent roots it emits and the ease with 

 which a considerable portion of the adhering earth may 

 be moved with it. For Yew hedges Boucher recom- 

 mends plants of seven or eight years' 1 growth, at which 

 age, if they have been properly attended to, they ought 

 to be from seven to eight feet high. Transplanting may 

 safely be performed during eight or nine months in the 

 year, commencing in autumn and continuing during the 

 winter and spring, until renewed vegetation becomes evi- 

 dent in the swelling and bursting of the terminal buds ; 

 precaution, however, ought to be taken, in case of long- 

 continued droughts in spring, to refresh the plants by 

 copious and frequent waterings, and in winter newly-in- 

 serted plants should be protected from very severe frosts 

 and biting winds, by branches or any other slight covering. 

 The Yew may also be raised from cuttings, which strike 

 pretty readily, particularly when slipped with a heel and 

 run into soil chiefly consisting of sand and shaded from 

 the sun ; in this way, the upright, or Irish Yew, and 

 other varieties are propagated. The cuttings should be 

 made of shoots of one or two years 1 growth, and they 

 are generally two years in becoming sufficiently rooted 

 to be removed and treated as seedling plants. Amongst 



