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dry, sandy earth, which must be levelled very 

 smooth, and the seeds scattered thereon 

 pretty thick, sifting the same light earth over 

 them half an inch thick. If the seeds are 

 sown upon a moderate hot bed, and the beds 

 covered with mats, they will come up much 

 sooner, and with greater certainty, than when 

 they are sown in the cold ground. 



Le Bon Jardinier, for 1822, recommends 

 the French nurseryman to sow the seeds in 

 pots, which are plunged into hot-beds, as these 

 pots can be removed into the orangery for 

 protection during the winter. Mr. Boutcher 

 recommends the same practice ; but we should 

 most decidedly prefer planting out not only 

 the cypress, but all other evergreens, that 

 have been reared in the hardiest manner that 

 their cultivation admits of, as they are in- 

 tended to decorate our walks and views in the 

 most inclement season of the year. 



The green cones of the cypress, pounded and 

 mixed with leaven, were one of the external 

 remedies which the ancient physicians used 

 for scrofulous complaints. They also recom- 

 mended the leaves to be pounded and applied 

 to the wound made by the bite of serpents. 



ELDER. — -See Pomarium Britannicum, 



