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time be in general pretty far advanced. The 

 propagation of this numerous and beautiful 

 genus being so little known to the generality 

 of gardeners in this, as well as the sister 

 kingdom, I trust I shall be excused, if I am a 

 little more particular on that head, than I have 

 hitherto been with regard to others ; especially 

 as the general treatment of them, when put in, 

 is the most proper for all those hard wooded 

 plants, done at the same time. 



The branches of heaths, and bark thereof, 

 are of such a thin wiry nature, when old, that 

 it is nearly impossible to strike them in that 

 state, hence the many failures by people not 

 aware of this circumstance, who most probably, 

 were in the habit of leaving more or less old 

 wood, to cuttings of every description ; and 

 these, they very naturally concluded, were to be 

 put into the soil the grown plant flourished 

 best in ; so that except by mere chance, when 

 they happened to put in a cutting moderately 

 young, which sometimes vegetated, they found 

 it a thing so precarious, and of such difficulty, 

 as to be induced to abandon the trial alto- 

 gether. Others more persevering, endeavoured 

 to remedy these defects by a change of soil ; 



