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covering the Mould in each Pot with them, at { _ 
about an Inch Diftance. 
Water that has {tood in the Stove. 
_ This done, fet the Pots up to the Rim in a 
Bark-Bed of a moderate Heat, and: fhade them. 
The Plants will appear in about eighteen Days ; 
but the exact Time is not certain. 
From their firft Appearance they muft be, at : 
Times, gently water’d, and harden’d by Degrees | People of warmer Climates, in earlier Time, ap- 
to the Air, — 
Let the Gardener now confider how many he — 
intends to raife; and felecting the ftrongeft and 
the beft looking among them to this Amount, 
~ Jet him pull up the reft in each Pot. 
This will give them more Liberty: they will 
thrive vifibly upon it, and the Waterings muit be | 
continued. — ) ail 
About the End of May they will be fit for 
-tranfplanting into feparate Pots. 
Let thefe be fill’d with Earth from a dry Pafture; 
and a little from under 4 Wood-Pile. i 
Let one Plant be‘ carefully fet in each Pot; 
and when the Earth has been fix’d about their 
Roots, and drawn up a little about their flender 
Stems, they muft have another gentle Watering, 
and be again fet into the Bark-Bed. This will 
greatly promote their Rooting. 
They muft be fhaded till well fix’d in the new 
Pots, and every Night gently water’d: when they 
appear perfectly well recover’d from the Check of 
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their Removal, they muft be harden’d again, and 
us’d to the free Air, by opening the Glaffes; and 
afterwards fet out among the Greenhoufe Plants. 
At Autumn they muft be taken into Shelter 
This is the only Time of their Danger. While 
young, I have found them very fubject to Damage 
from Froft; but afterwards they bear it perfectly 
well. Some of the extretné Branches will perhaps 
be hurt afterwards; but very rarely the whole 
Shrub. = 
When the young Plants have been thus brought 
thro’ their firft Winter, they will with lefs Care 
{tand all the reft. . 
In the Middle of April let the Gardener fix 
upon the Spots where they are to ftand; and in 
the Evening of a warm fhowery Day, let him 
open the Holes for them. 
Let him throw down at the Edge of each Hole, 
fome frefh Earth from a Pafture; and then loofen- 
ing the whole Ball of Earth from the Bottom and 
Sides of the Pot, let him take it out tinbroken 
with the Plant in it; and fetting it upright in the 
Hole, fill it up with the Earth carefully, and give 
a moderate Watering. 
The Arbutus roots but flowly ; but this Way it 
a i . 3] | will not feel the Check, or need fo much as 
Sift over them a Quarter of an Inch of freth : 
Mould, and then give a very gentle Sprinkling of © 
fhading.. 
_ The two fucceeding Winters, let thefe young — 
Trees be defended, as we have directed for all 
tender Shrubs, againft the Severity of the Froft 
pear to have underftood them as a principal Article 
of natural Food: and they have there no better 
Saute: | : 
The Greek} and Romans name the Shrub univer- 
fally the pepasmvaov of the former is the Fruit of 
this Tree; and both they and the old Romans 
make the Diet of Nature, in their feveral Coun- 
tries, to have been this Fruit, the Beech Matt; 
and Acorn: 
Lucretius names, in this Senfe 
—— Que nunc hyberno tempore cernis 
Arbuta Phenicio fieri matura colore. 
names his Arbuteos fetus montanaque fraga. 
This has occafion’d the Shrub to be fo often 
mention’d by the Poets; who, with all their Praife, 
knew as little of it as thofe of modern Time un- 
derftand of many Things they boldly mention: 
and this has led their Commentators into thofe in- 
extricable Wilds of Dulnefs and Confufion. 
Inferitur vero ex fetu nucis Arbutus horrida, 
fays Vircit; How fhall we make the Arbuté 
HORRID and wipEOUS, demands this Commenta- 
tor? — Becaufe, replies Ruaus, it has very few 
Leaves: him we may fend to School to the [ri/h 
Peafant. —Becaufe; fays Martyn (much to be 
refpected for many of his Obfervations) of ‘the 
Ruggednefs of its Bark. —’Tis an Antient who 
fpeaks; and let us enquire what the Antients 
thought of this Matter. : 
Puiny; treating of another Tree; fays it has 2 
fmooth Bark like that of the Aréutus; and this the 
affiduous Compiler has tranflated from’ THeoprua> 
stus verbally. 
_ What fhall we fay to this, but that the Verfe 
does not deferve the Comment; and that few 
| Things are more vain and idle than modern Criti- 
cifm. 
If it were worth a Guels, perhaps the M caning ; 
might be found in an authoriz’d tho’ uncommon 
Senfe of the Word: Quinrizian fupports the 
Ute of horridus for jejunus ; and the Meaning may 
be, the Aungry Arbute, from its Readinefs to receive 
fo ftrange a yon as the Walnut: 
4. PURL.LE CARA CENA, 
This may, with Juftice, claim the Charaéter of | Tribe: and its Marks of Pecullarity ate fo obvi- 
one of the moft fingular among the Vegetable | ous, that they have efcap’d few who have had Op-. 
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| Atid Ovip talking of the fartie kind of Food; ~ 
