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The red and white Virginian Cedars are cafily propagated, 

 hy fowing their berries in the fpring on beds of good mellow 

 light foil, expofed only to the morning fun, and otherways fhel- 

 tered by trees, hedges, or walls. Thefc feeds will remain a year 

 in the ground before they appear ; during which time, the beds 

 muft be kept clean, and the furface fweet and loofe : It will 

 likeways be necelTary, in extreme drought, to give them now and 

 then a gentle fprinkling of water, which will keep the berries in 

 vigour, as otherways I have known many of them perifli, and the 

 remainder come up weak, late, and irregular in the fpring, after a 

 very dry fummer. As the plants make fmall progrefs the firft year, 

 they may remain two years in the feed-bed ; they mufi:, both the 

 iummer feafons, be frequently refrefhed with water, and let the 

 furface of the beds in autumn be drefled as has been directed 

 for other feedlings. 



The fpring following, remove them to another well- fheltered 

 fpot, of the fame quality as for the feed, and plant them in lines, 

 eighteen inches afunder, and nine or ten inches diftant in the 

 line ; give them the fame kind of culture formerly dire(5led for 

 Evergreens of that age^ and let them remain two years. 



Erom thence remove them to another quarter of the nurfery, 

 in any ordinary foil and fituation, cutting away the extreme 

 parts of their roots, with any of the crowded or ill-placed 

 branches, and plant them in lines, three and a half feet afunder, 

 and two feet in the Hne ; let them be watered at planting, and 

 frequently after it in dry weather, till paft mid- fummer, keeping 

 the ground entirely clean ; and here they ought to remain three 

 years, when they will be of a proper fize to be planted out for good. 



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