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and not in the least deter them, because many of them are not as yet CHAP. 

 become endenizoned amongst us : but of this I have said enough, and '"'"■"v-^ 

 yet cannot but still repeat it. 



2. We read that the Peach was at first accounted so tender and delicate 

 a tree, as that it was believed to thrive only in Persia ; and even in the 



in the greatest drought, twice ?i-week will be sufficient for them, 'prpvided it be done in the 

 evenings. This is the only care they will require the first summer, except being kept 

 clean from weeds. If the place where they are sown bp tolerably well sheltered, they 

 will stand the winter very well, though it should prove severe j but where the situation is 

 not well sheltered by plantations, to break thg violence of the frosty black winds, they 

 must be screened, otherwise many will be lost. It is the black frosts, attended by high 

 ■winds, which destroy these plants ; so that where there is not shelter enough to break 

 their edge, the beds should be hpoppd over, and cpvered with mats during that severe 

 weather. 



The ensuing summer the plants may remain undisturbed, and they will require neither 

 watering, nor farther care, except weeding. The spring following, being then two years 

 old, they should be set out in the nursery, exactly at two feet square. In taking them out 

 of the seed-bed, some earth should be taken up with the roots. The latter end of March is 

 the most proper time for this work ; and if the weather should prove dry and cold, as it 

 often happens, the March winds blowing, the work must be deferred till rainy or cloudy 

 weather ; for without these precautions you will find this a difficult plant to remove. After 

 they are planted out into the nursery, they may be now and then watered in dry weather, 

 and kept clean from weeds ; thus they may stand till they are of a sufficient size to be 

 planted out for good. 



The ground intended for a Cupresselum, may the preceding year, bear a crop of grain, and, 

 the winter before it is planted, should be ploughed with a strong plough, to destroy the 

 weeds, and lay the best soil downwards. 



After this, holes should be made all over it at two yards distance. The plants must be 

 taken out of the nursery with as much mould to the roots as possible, and carefully planted 

 in these holes. If the plants are designed for timber, when they get too close, they ought 

 to be proportionably thinned, and should undergo a second thinning as often they touch 

 each other, till they arrive at their full size. 



With regard to the Small Blue-berried and Cape Cypress, the seeds should be sown in 

 pots or boxes. We receive them from abroad : they are very small, and seldom come up 

 before the second spring ; so that there will be less danger of their being lost if they are 

 sown in pots or boxes, which may be set in the shade in summer, and removed into wpll- 

 sheltered places during the winter. In the spring, the plants will come up ; and after that, 

 the Blue-berried Cypress may have the same treatment as the young seedlings of the 

 common sort. With respect to the Cape Cypress, the plants must be set in pots, to be 

 housed in winter, until they are grown to be a yard high. When they are put out intp 



