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the flioot ill embryo for the fucceeding feafon : Plant them irti 

 lines, fix. feet afmider, and two and a half feet in the line. In 

 this fituation they may continue three, but not above four years, , 

 when, in an ordinary foil, the plants will be from twelve, to ; 

 fo.urteeji or fifteen feet highs , 



The fecond and third forts may be propagated by budding; 

 them on the common kind, on which they take freely. . 



The fcarlet-fldwering Horfe-Chefnut is a beautiful plant, and , 

 produces a very rich and elegant flower. It is a native of Ame- 

 rica, but is hardy enough , to bear, our climate, in ordinary litua- 

 tions, when four or five years old, though it is fomewhat more 

 delicate than the common in infancy : Therefore, having procu- 

 red their nuts, (which you may, eafily do from South Carolina, 

 where they grow abundantly) fbw them as dire6led for the com- 

 mon kind, but in a warm fheltered fituation, and in a rich loofe 

 fweet mould ; and remove them the fucceeding fpring to a fitua- 

 tion and foil of the fame quality, where they may remain three 

 years, when they will have acquired flrength enough to put up 

 with common ufage. This tree,, iin America, grows to the height 

 of thirty feet, but I have not feen any in Britain of near that 

 fize, and I doubt, it will, never arrive at that ftature with us; 

 notwithftanding which, it is well worth our cultivation, and 

 has a fine effect in the wildernefs, planted .with trees of the fame 

 growth, , 



This may alfo' be budded or inarched on the common kihdj, 

 but they will neither make fo handfome plants, nor ever grow to^ 

 it^ar the fize of thofe raifed from feeds, . 



