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Chapter XIV. 

 ^ The acacia TREE. 



The Species are: 



1. The common or Virginian Acacia. 



2. The American Acacia, with triple thorns, commonly 



called the Locust Tree in the Weft-Indies. 



3. The Water Acacia, from Carolina. 



' I ^ HERE are above thirty different fpecies of this plant, that 

 A have been brought from Africa and America, but moft 

 •of them are tender, and require the protedlion of the green- 

 houfe or ftove, and are foreign to a Treatife on Foreft-trees for 

 this climate ; therefore 1 have only mentioned three kinds, which 

 are hardy enough to bear our fevereft winters, and become large 

 trees^ 



Th e firft fort is propagated by fowing its feeds the beginning 

 of March, on a bed of well-prepared mellow foil, fliaded from 

 the mid-day fun, which, in five or fix weeks, will appear above 

 ground, when they muft be frequently watered in the evenings, 

 during the hot and dry weather, and the weeds deftroyed at 

 their firft appearance. 



About the beginning of April the following fpring, remove 

 them from the feed-bed to the nurfery, be fparing of their roots, 



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