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Should Tow them upon a very mode- 

 rate Hot bed (which greatly pro- 

 motes its Vegetation), cover ng it 

 about a Quarter of an Inch with 

 light Earth, and fcreen ng it from 

 P roils, or great Rains. Toward the 

 Latter-end of Jpiil your young 

 Plants will begin to appear ; you 

 muft therefore keep them clear from 

 Weed?, and give them frequent Wa- 

 terings, as the Sealon m'iy require, 

 and made them in hot Weather ; and 

 if your Plarts have dene well, they 

 will be, by Autumn, about five or 

 fix Inches high : but as thefe Trees 

 are iubject to receive Damage from. 

 Frofrs, efpecially while they are 

 young, therefore you mull hoop the 

 Bed over, that when bad Wta;her 

 comes, you may cover it with Mats 

 and Straw to keep out the Froft. 



The Beginning of April follow- 

 ing you may trani plant thefe Trees, 

 each into a fmall Pot ; but in doing 

 of this, be very careful to take them 

 up with as much Earth to their Roots 

 as pofiible; for they are bad-rooting 

 Plants, and very fubjecl to mifcarry 

 on being removed ; and it is for this 

 Reafon that I ad/ife their being put 

 into fmall Pots : for when they have 

 filled the Pot with Roots, they may 

 be turned out into large Pots, or the 

 open Ground, without any Hazard 

 or their dying. 



When you have put your Plants 

 into the fmall Pots, you Ihould plunge 

 them into an thcr very moderate 

 Hot bed, to encourage their taking 

 new Root, (hading them from the 

 Sun in the Middle of the Day, and 

 giving them Water as they may re- 

 quire : in this Bed it will be proper 

 to let the Pots remain mod Part of 

 the Summer ; for if the Pots are 

 taken out, and fet upon the Ground, 

 the Smalnefs cf their Size will occa- 

 sion, the Earth in them to dry fo fait, 

 that V/ atering will fcarcely preferve 



your Plants alive ; but if they are 

 kept growing all the Summer, they 

 will be near a Foot high by the next 

 Autumn : but it will be advifeable 

 to fcreen them from the Froft during 

 their Continuance in Pots ; by plung- 

 ing them into the Ground m a warm 

 Place, and covering them with Mats 

 in bad Weather. 



When your Trees are grown to 

 be three or four Feet high, you may 

 make them out of the Pots into the 

 open Ground in the Places where 

 they are to remain : but this mould 

 be done in April, that they may have 

 taken good Root before the Winter; 

 which will be apt to damage them, 

 if neuly planted. 



Thefe Trees are tolerably hardy, 

 and are felcom hurt, except in ex- 

 treme hard Winters ; which many 

 times kill the young and tender 

 Branches, but rarely deilrcy the 

 Trees : therefore however dead your 

 Trees may appear after an hard Win- 

 ter, I would advife you to let them 

 remain till the fucceeding Summer 

 has {ufBcienrJy demonftrated what 

 are living, and what are dead ; for 

 the Winter Anno 1728-9. and 1739- 

 40. gave u? great Reafon to believe 

 moil of the "Frees of this Kind were 

 deftroyed ; and many People were 

 fo hatiy, as to dig up, or cut down, 

 many of their Trees ; whereas all 

 thole People who had Patience to let 

 their Trees remain, found, that fcarce 

 one in five hundred failed to com 

 out aga ; n the next Summer, and made 

 handlome Plants that Sealon. 



This Tree delights in a moift Soil 

 for when they are planted in dry 

 Ground, they feldom produce much 

 Fruit : the Flowers of this Tree, be 

 ing produced in Autumn, if theWin 

 ter proves fevcre, are generally de 

 flroyed ; which has occafion'd thei 

 producing very little Fruit in Eng 

 land for- iori;e Y cars pafl : therefore 



