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Th e Lime tree may be propagated by feeds, wliicli are ripe 

 about the end of October, and llioiild, after being quite dry^ 

 be mixed v/itli fand, and prote(5led from frofh and rain, till the 

 beginning of March ; when they ought to be fown in a fliady 

 border of rich, molit, loamy foil, in bed's three and a half feet 

 wide, with alleys of eighteen inches, and covered three quarters 

 of an inch deep. When the feeds begin to peep,, let them be 

 frequently watered, and increafe the quantify as the plants ad- 

 vance in growth : Let the beds, in autumn and fpring, be ma- 

 naged as diredled for other hardy feedling trees j and here let 

 them continue two vears. 



These plants, raifed from feeds, make very little progrefs for 

 three or four years ; and as they may readily be increafed by 

 layers, which will fave much time, and make equally good 

 plants, (lince, in that way, they root abundantly, and grow with 

 great eafe and freedom) I would advife the practice of it as the 

 belt method to have plantations of thefe trees fpeedily. 



Therefore, having provided yourfelf with ftools, or mother- 

 plants, after the fame manner as diredled for the Englifli Elm, and 

 planted at the fame diftances, with which, till now, the culture of the 

 Lime will exacflly agree, lay down their branches any time from 

 Septem.ber till April; only obferve, that the plants laid down in 

 autumn, will be better rooted, and have ftronger Ihoots than thofe 

 done an the fpring. 



A QUARTER of gcncrous frefli ground having Been v^ell pre- 

 pared, about the middle of October take up your layers care- 

 fdlly, without tearing or bruifing their fibres-; fhorten theijj 



