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When eight or ten days are passed, the dung will be sunk 

 enough to admit of its being covered with tan, which must, 

 after some days, be stirred, and from time to time be filled 

 up, it being necessary that the pit should be quite full before 

 the trellis is laid upon it. When this preparatory work is 

 completed, I proceed to plant the tree. Great precaution 

 must be observed in digging up the tree to take up every 

 root with its fibres entire and unbroken. The mould in 

 which the trees should be planted must be rich, but not 

 stiff. After the tree is planted it must be spread over the 

 trellis, then pruned, and the strong shoots taken out; I then 

 leave it for a few days untied till it has settled. I proceed 

 afterwards very slowly ; air is admitted day and night, and the 

 lights only covered with a single reed mat in the night, for I 

 consider the tree should be kept in a torpid state till the roots 

 begin to work. When the sap begins to move, and the buds 

 to swell, the red dot in the flower buds will soon make its 

 appearance ; I observed it, this year, 1821, on the 25th of Fe- 

 bruary; the sap is consequently at such period in full action, 

 the admission of air must therefore then be lessened, and cover- 

 ing in proportion to the weather, the climate being likewise 

 considered, increased. It is also necessary to put a lining 

 round the bed to support the internal heat, which will have been 

 lessened by the admission of air. The lining consists of leaves, 

 mixed with a little horse-dung to quicken them. But it is to 

 be observed that the roots or foot of the tree must be well 

 covered, first with a layer of dry moss an inch and a half thick, 

 and over that with layers of mats according to the weather, 

 so that the roots may have the same temperature as if the tree 

 were growing in a Peach-house. The mats must, consequently. 



