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well-aired places till sowing ; with the exception of 

 ash keys, haws, holly-berries, roans, and yew-berries, 

 which require to be put in the rot-heap as soon as 

 gathered. The rot-heap consists of seed mixed with 

 sandy earth formed into a layer not exceeding ten 

 inches in thickness ; this is tm^ned several times be- 

 fore midwinter, when it is covered with a layer of 

 earth about seven inches deep, to exclude the frost. 

 After remaining in this heap one year — till Septem- 

 ber, or the following February, these seeds are sown 

 out. 



Sow seeds of trees during the last half of Fe- 

 bruary, March, or April, on beds of high manm-ed 

 easy soil, in very fine tilth, and clear of weeds, such 

 as follows hoed green crop, in distance and depth 

 in proportion to the size of the seed, or rather of 

 the annual stem or braird. To deposit the seed at 

 an equable depth, the upper friable moidd is pushed 

 (cuffed) off the bed to the interstices between by the 

 reversed head of a rake, as deep as necessary ; the 

 seed is then deposited by the hand, and rolled over 

 by a very light roller to fix it, that it may not suffer 

 derangement by the return of the earth which is 

 then evenly cuffed back from the sides, and no har- 

 rowing or raking given. 



Watch most narrowly, and ward off or destroy all 



