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Chapter VIII. 

 The hornbeam TREE. 



The Species are : 



1. The common Hornbeam. 



2. The Hop Hornbeam. 



3. The Virginian Flowering Hornbeam. 



4. The llrip'd Hornbeam. 



'^J^HE common Hornbeam fliould be propagated by feeds, 

 which being ripe in autumn, after fpreading them in a 

 loft till dry, ought to be mixed with fand till the following 

 fpring, when they may be fown thin on beds of frelh earth, 

 three and a half feet broad, with alleys eighteen inches wide be- 

 tween the beds, and covered three quarters of an inch deep. 

 Thefe feeds will remain a year in the ground before the plants 

 appear ; during which time, the earth muft be kept clean and 

 mellow. In February next, loofen the furface of the beds with 

 a fliort-teeth'd rake, fo as not to difturb the feeds, and throw a 

 gentle covering of frefli mould over them ; where they may re- 

 main for two years, if not too thick, as the plants make flow 

 progrefs the firfl feafon, and are naturally well-rooted. 



From the feed-bed remove them early in 06lober, or as foon 

 after as the weather will admit, into any frefh fpot of ground 



