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produce the fame kind of plants from whence the feeds were 

 taken; and therefore, to preferve the diiTcrent fpecies, theymufc 

 be increafed by layers, or hj budding and grafting them on the 

 common forts, or Pear-flocks. Thefe budded or grafted will ' 

 make better plants than the layers, and on the Pear-ftocks they 

 will fooner become fruitful, and bear fairer fruit than on flocks 

 of their own fpecies. I fliall therefore proceed to the other kinds, 

 of which I have raifed great quantities from feed, without any 

 variation from the parent tree„ 



Having provided the berries in Otlober, diveft them of the 

 pulp, by rubbing them between your hands in water, and after 

 that with, fand, in vsrhich. preferve them till the firfi; dry 

 weather in fpring, and fow them on beds of rich well-pre- 

 pared loofe earth, three and a half feet broad, covering them. 

 one inch thick. Few of thefe feeds will appear above ground till 

 the following fpring, but the beds mull notwithllandipg be kept 

 perfecflly clean during the fummer months ; and as foon in Fe- 

 bruary as the weather will admdt, v/ith a fhort-teeth'd rake, drefs 

 and loofen the beds, throwing on fome frelh foil in proportion 

 to the hard and foggy parts you have taken off ; and by the 

 beginning of April, the weather being dry and not frofty, wa- 

 ter them gently in the mornings once a week till July, which 

 will much encourage their growth. 



From the feed-bed remove them the following fpring, Ihor- 

 ten their top-roots, and plant them in well-prepared rich foil, 

 In rows two feet diftant and a foot afunder in the row, where 

 they ought to remain two years, keeping the ground clean ni 

 fummer, and digging between the lines in fpring and autumUo 



