TREATISE on 



very injiidicioufly) cliofen for the moft hungry barren foils, and 

 moft bleak expofed fituations, where, from the natural hardinels 

 of the plant, in kindly moift fcafons, they frequently grow; but 

 where, if the following May is accompanied with cold wither- 

 ing frofty winds, and June with drought, (a circumftance, from 

 fatal experience, we too often find the cafe in this climate), they 

 generally perifli. 



This, however, though a too frequent, is not an univerfal 

 practice, as feveral gentlemen, of knowledge and experience in 

 gardening, plant large quantities of them from the nurfery at 

 three and four years old, when, if they have been tolerably well 

 cultivated, it mufl be a very bad foil and feafon indeed if they 

 do not fucceed. 



Such is the common method of propagating this plant: It 

 remains I Ihould dire6l its culture in. the way I have fucceeded 

 better than ufual. 



I HAVE obferved, that the feeds of this tree are rarely, if ever, 

 got amongft us in full perfe(5lion, and given my reafons for it. 

 To gather the cones therefore fully ripe, and make them emit 

 their feeds, without committing violence on them, obferve the 

 following rules : 



These cones, as thofe of the Larch, increafe in maturity du- 

 ring the whole winter, and, like them, fiiould not be gathered 

 till fpring, thoiigh their management afterwards is much more 

 fimple, being with more eafe divefted of their covering. 



