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two or three inches deep , and covered with 

 earth. The soil should be kept free from 

 herbage, and occasionally watered during 

 the summer. The young plants appear in 

 October, and continue to vegetate through 

 the winter. By the following spring, the most 

 thriving among them will have attained the 

 height of thirty inches. The feebler stocks 

 should now be eradicated. With proper at- 

 tention, and in a favourable soil, the remain- 

 der will be four or five feet high, and six or 

 seven lines in diameter, in the course of the 

 third spring, with a perpendicular root of 

 thirty inches. This is the season for trans- 

 planting them. Great care should be bes- 

 towed upon the preparation of the ground, 

 and the young plants should be placed three 

 feet apart. After two years they will be suffi- 

 ciently advanced to be grafted; and at the 

 end of five years they may be transplanted 

 to the olive-yard. 



To accelerate the germination, the stones 

 may be kept in fine mould during the summer 

 and autumn, and sown in the beginning of 

 January. They soon begin to vegetate , and 

 before the following w inter the young stocks 



