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them be regularly refreflied with water. The following autumn^ 

 the beds having been made quite clean, and loofened with your ■ 

 iinger, fo as- not to difhurb the plants, put a little more good 

 movild about them with. your, hands, after which they will re- 

 quire no further trouble^ but keeping them clean, till they have 

 had another feafon's growth ; by which time, let them be remo- 

 ved to the. nurfery the fucc ceding fpring. 



The fecond: fort, though by many ranked as a diflindl fpecies, 

 Mr Miller (and- 1 believe juftly) thinks only a feminal variety of 

 the firft ; though the leaves are lefs divided than it, but more 

 than the weftern kind" this may eafily be inereafed by layers. 



The third fort grows freely from cuttings, which ought to:> 

 be planted the beginning of March, in fhady borders of rich, 

 moift earth, two feet line from line, and eight or ten inches 

 in the line; and if they are torn afunder at the joints, with; 

 a knob or bur of the old wood , left, they will grow more readily^ 

 and fooner become ftrong plants, than the others. Thefe cut-- 

 tings ought to be a foot or fourteen inches long, buried about: 

 eight inches deep, and moderately watered till their fiioots are 

 two or three inches long, where they fhould remain two years. . 

 The leaves of this kind are broader, and lefs indented than the 

 other two forts ; it is likewife hardier, grows fafter,, and to a 

 greater magnitude in this climate : So that in large plantations, 

 or in expofed fitu^ations, I would advife the greateft_ quantity of 

 diem to be plantedj 



Th E feedlings, layers, and cuttings, are now all to be treated 

 iii the fame m-anner, and planted out in the nurfery, in lines 



