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the winter is about to set in, cover them all over 

 with straw or cedar boughs. Take these off when 

 the winter breaks up, and you will have very early 

 and most excellent greens ; and, when you have 

 done with the greens, the Turnips are very good 

 to eat. 



272. WORMWOOD is an herb purely medicinal. 

 It may be propagated from seed, from slips, or from 

 offsets. It ought not to occupy a space of more 

 than a foot square. It must be dried and put by in 

 bags for winter use. 



CHAPTER V. 

 FRUITS. 



Propagation, Planting, Cultivation. 



PROPAGATION. 



273. All the Fruits to be treated of here, except 

 the Strawberry, are the produce of trees or of 

 woody plants. All these may be propagated from 

 seed, and some are so propagated. But others are 

 usually propagated by cuttings, slips, layers, or 

 suckers : or by budding or grafting upon stocks. 



274. The methods of propagation, best suited to 

 each kind, will be mentioned under the 7iaine of the 

 kinds respectively ; and, therefore, in this place I 

 am to describe the several methods generally, and 

 the management suited to each. 



275. When the propagation is from seed, the 

 sowing should be in good ground, finely broken, 

 and the seed should by no means be sown too thick. 

 How to save and preserve the seed will be spoken 

 of under the names of the several trees. But, the 



