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atout three Inches Diftance from 

 each other. If the Spring mould 

 prove very dry, it will be proper to 

 fupply the Border with Water twice 

 & Week : for as the Covers of the 

 Seed are very hard unlefs they have 

 a pretty good Share ofivloifture,they 

 will not vegetate ; bat when the 

 Coverings burlt,and the yoangPIants 

 begin to come out, the Watering 

 fliuft be but fparingly performed 

 for too much Wet will rot the len- 

 der Stems of the Plants : they mull 

 alfo be carefully defended from 

 Birds, otherwife they may be 

 all deftroyed in a few Hours, by 

 thefe rapacious Creatures, which are 

 fond of pecking the Heads off thefe 

 Plants before they are well out of 

 the Ground : and if the Ped is (ha- 

 ded in the Heat of the Day from the 

 Sun, it will prevent the Earih from 

 drying too- faft ; and preferve the 

 .Plants from being injured by the 

 Violence of the Sun's Heat, which 

 they cannot well bear the firft- Sea- 

 son. Sometimes in dry Seafons I 

 have known the Seeds remain a 

 Year in the Ground, and often three 

 or four Months : therefore the Bor- 

 der or Bed in wnich they are fovvn 

 fhould not be difturbed, if the Plants 

 ihould not come up fo icon as they 

 are expected. 



If the Seeds fucceed well, the 

 Plants will appear in about five or 

 fix "Weeks after they are fown ; and 

 then theDirections before given mull 

 be obferved, as alfo to keep the Bed 

 clean from Weeds; and if in dry 

 Weather they are gently watered 

 two or three times a Week, it will 

 promote the Growth of the Plants : 

 but this muft be performed with 

 great Care ; for if it is poured too 

 haftily, or given in too great Plenty, 

 >t will caufe the Stems to rot juft at 

 the Surface of the Ground ; and for 

 want of chis Care great Numbers of 

 thefe Plants have been deftroyed 



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foon after they made their Appear- 

 ance above-ground. 



As many of the Sorts of Pines are 

 with fome Difficulty preferved thro* 

 the firft Winter, but particularly the 

 manured Pine, the beft Method of 

 treating them is to tranfplant then* 

 about AuiJ/hmmer, out of the Seed- 

 bed, choofing, if poffible, a cloudy 

 Day for this Work : but whenever 

 this is done, the Plants mould be 

 kept as little time out of the Ground 

 as poffible, left their tender Fibres 

 mould be dried by the Air : to pre- 

 vent which, it will be proper to have 

 /hallow Pans of Water, into which 

 the Plants may belaid, as they are 

 taken up, and fo carried to thePlace 

 where they are to be planted. All 

 the other Sorts of Pines may then be 

 planted in Beds, at about four Inch- 

 es Diftance every Way ; and the 

 Beds fhould be arched over with 

 Hoops, that they may be covered 

 every Day with Mats, to fcreen the 

 Plants from the Sun, until they have 

 taken good Root : but as this Sort 

 of Pine is with Difficulty tranfplant- 

 ed, it will be the fureft Method to 

 plant them into fnull Pots, at their 

 firft removing out of the Seed-bed : 

 if the Pots are plunged clofe toge- 

 ther, either in a commonBorder, or 

 an old Bed of Tan, which has no 

 Heat, it will prevent the Earth in 

 the Pocs from drying too faft : and 

 then thefe may alfo be arched over, 

 and covered with Mats in the fame 

 manner as the other : and if thefe 

 are continued in the fame Bed all 

 the following Winter, they may be 

 covered in fevere Froft, which often 

 deftroys the Plants while they are 

 young, when they are expofed'to k. 



The Plants fhould be mifted out 

 of the Pots when their Roots have 

 filled them, and planted into larger 

 Pots ; being careful in the doing of 

 this, not to maketheEarth from their 

 Roots ; and if the Pots are plunged 



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