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Chapter XVIII. 

 The laburnum, or BEAN-TREFOIL 



The Species are : 

 I. The broad-Icav'd Laburnum. 



1. The narrow-leav'd Laburnum, with long pendulous 

 flowers. 



3. The broad-leav'd Laburnum, with very ftiort pendu- 

 I0.US flowers. 



I H E S E trees are propagated by fowing their feeds (which 

 they annually produce in plenty) in March, on a bed of 

 frelli earth, covering them about half an inch thick ; and, in four 

 or Ave weeks, the plants will appear above ground, when fome 

 gentle waterings in dry weather will much promote their 

 growth. 



The following February or March, remove them from the 

 feed-bed to the nurfery ; fliorten their roots, which are naturally 

 carroty, but which are not injured by cutting them freely when 

 young i plant them in lines, two and a half feet diftant, and a 

 foot afunder in the line ; keep them clean ; dig the ground be- 

 tween the lines in autumn and fpring, and let them remain two 

 feafons. 



From hence remove them, in Ocflober or February, to another 

 quarter ; flill continue to reduce the roots that incline down- 



