New Principles of Gardening. 
SECT. V. 
Of the Afb; ws Culture, &e. 
HE 4p is avery ufeful Tree, on many Occafions; as 
for Watermens Boats-Staves, Oars, c. Coach and 
- Cart-Wheels, Plows, and many other Works in Trade, 
and therefore ought to be as much increafed, as any other Tree 
whatfoever, aoe 
is a very free grower, and is increafed from its 
This ‘Tree 1 
Keys, which are thorough ripe about the End of Oéfoder, or 
the Beginning of November, at which Time they are to be 
gatherd. In the gathering of Aben-Keys for anIncreafe, you 
muft obferve, that thofe Trees from which you gather them, 
be ftraight thriving Trees, and not of a fmall Stature, or any 
ways decaying. Atter your Keys are gather’d, let them be 
dry’d, and put into Sand, wherein let them remain till Zann- 
ry, at which Time they fhould be fown in the Seed-Bed, as. 
before directed, Sc. | 
The firft Year after fowing, they lie in the Earth, and the 
next Spring comeup. Theretore-tor the firft Year, the Ground 
wherein they are fown, may be fow’d with a Crop of Barley, 
Oats, or any other Crops of the like Nature. 
But the moft advantageous Way is to keep them the firlt 
Summer after gathering in Sand, and to fow them in the Spring 
following, viz. about the middle of Fanuary. | 
During that Time as you keep them in Sand, obferve that 
the Sand be kept indifferently moift, and that the Air may have 
free Accefs to them, and in the laying them therein, be care- 
ful that they don’t lie in Lumps, or too thick, but in fuch a 
Manner as for the Sand to encompafs every Key- 
In the Spring, when you fow them, firft prepare the Bed 
wherein they are to be fown; and as foon as that is done, fow 
them of a reafonable Thicknefs, and immediately cover them a 
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