8 TREATISE on 



than I have found them fuccefsful, but defcribe the methods of 

 culture experience and obfervation has taught me are beft, and 

 by which I have raifed great quantities of this valuable tree to a 

 furprifing fize in a few years. 



As foon as the feeds are gathered, fpread them on a canvafs in 

 the open air, but not expofed to a warm fun, which would dry 

 them too flift, and extracSl their vegetative juices ; turn them over 

 frequently, feparating the clufters, into which, from their moi- 

 ilure, they are apt to gather and grow mufty ; let them be placed 

 under cover in the night-time, to prGte(5l them from the rains and 

 dev/s, which muft be continued longer or fliorter as the weather 

 is temperate and clear, or damp and cloudy, but in general they 

 will require ten or twelve days feafonable weather to make them 

 dry enough to keep : After this, they iliould be put in bags, but 

 not hard prelfed in them, and carried to the feed-loft, where they 

 may remain five or fix weeks, by which time they will be tho- 

 roughly dry and firm, without having loft any of their virtue ; 

 3.nd the feafon of vegetation being almoft over, they will be in 

 no danger of fpringing that year. From the feed-loft let them 

 be removed to any covered fhady place in the nurfery, and mix- 

 ed vfith one- third part fine fand to two- thirds of the feeds, co- 

 vering them three or four inches thick with more fand or fine 

 loofe fifted earth, to prevent being injured by the frofts ; and in 

 this fituation let them remain till February following. 



About the i 2th of this month, or as foon after as the v/eather 

 will permit, prepare , a fpot of loofe rich garden earth, made per- 

 fectly -clean of root-weeds, and finely raked : Divide this land in 

 beds three and a half feet v/ide, with alleys eighteen inches : 



