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The mo Virginian kinds, and Swedilh Juniper, will grow 

 by cuttings, from which I have raifed many handfome plants : 

 This may either be done the beginning of April or end of Augufl, 

 the latter of which feafons I have found mofl fuccefsful. Be- 

 ing then provided with branches of one or two years growth^ 

 cut or tear them afunder at the joints, leaving a knob of the old 

 wood at them, and clear off the leaves or fmall tvv^igs as far as 

 the cuttings are to be buried in the ground, which, if they 

 will admit of it, may be about fix inches ; plant them in lines 

 eighteen inches diftant, in a fliady border of rich loofe earth, and 

 refrelli them with water as the feafon may require. The fol- 

 lowing fummer, let the ground between the earth be kept loofe 

 and mellow, by frequent ftirring with a trowel ^ water them 

 every third or fourth evening in dry weather, and the fecond 

 fpring they will be fufficiently rooted to tranfplant to the quar- 

 ters of the nurfery, there to be treated as the feedlings. 



The Bermudas Cedar will likeways grow by cuttings, tho' 

 not fo freely in the open ground j but ten or twelve of them put 

 in a penny pot, and plunged into a hot-bed of tanners bark, will 

 root liberally in one fummer ; and if taken out of thofe pots the 

 fucceeding fpring, put in feparate ones of the fame fize, and a- 

 gain plunged in the hot-bed another fummer, they will be larger 

 plants than the feedlings at four years old, and m.ay afterwards 

 be treated, as has been dire(fled for them. 



I HAVE often heard gardeners, of m-ore than common ingenui- 

 ty, boaft they have raifed abundaace of good plants from cut- 

 tings of the Cedar of Libanus. This knovrlcdgc I have been 

 dull or unlucky enough not yet to arrive at, I have tried everv 



