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our winters very well :, I would therefore aclvifc them to be 

 fown in pots of fine rich loofe earth, protedled from the fun in 

 fummer, and all violent rains for the firft year, but expofed to 

 the fun during the winter and early fpring months, under the 

 prote6lion of a frame without glaffes, over which a mat may be 

 thrown in fevere weather, which mull regularly be removed on 

 its becoming temperate. 



The following fpring, as the buds begin to fwell, plant them 

 out either within an old frame without glafles as formerly, or in 

 a bed arched over with hoops, to admit of being covered with 

 mats in bad weather. In thefe beds or frames, place them in 

 lines, a foot afunder, and feven or eight inches in the lines ; for 

 five or fix weeks after planting, let them be fliaded from the mid- 

 day fun, till well eftablifhed, and in a free-growing flate, after 

 which they will require no attention but in ftormy weather, and 

 that the firft year only from their removal, as, in the month of 

 May the fecond year, the frames may be removed during the fum- 

 mer, and replaced in winter, though not covered, but in the event 

 of a very fevere ftorm. 



From thefe quarters all the Pines may be removed the fuc- 

 ceeding fpring, to where they are intended to remain for good, 

 in large plantations ; but for fmaller defigns, and an immediate 

 fliow, they may be tranfplanted with fafety, to the height 

 of fix or feven feet, and fome of them larger, if removed every 

 fecond year, and cultivated as here direded. 



The firft mentioned feven kinds are inhabitants of the moun- 

 tains, and delight in a hard rocky foil; the four following forts 



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