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Chapter XXVIII. 

 The cypress TREE. 



The Species are: 



1. The common upright Cypress Tree., 



2. The male-fpreading Cypress Tree^ 



3. The Virginian or deciduous Cypress Tree. 



4. The American Cypress Tree, commonly called the 



White Cedar. 



^T^HE firfl, fecond, and third forts, are propagated by fowing 

 their feeds in fheltered lhady borders of fine rich loofe 

 earth, about the middle of March, which in five or fix weeks 

 will appear above ground,, when they muft be regularly watered 

 in the evenings of mild dry weather, every third or fourth night,, 

 and this continued, giving them little at a time, till the middle 

 of Auguft ; and if in the beginning of winter fome faw-dufh is 

 fifted over them, as directed for the Firs, it will much contri- 

 bute to their prefervation in the event of fevere weather. 



Th e following fpring, thefe plants, which, Vv'-ell managed, will 

 be fix or feven inches high, muft be removed to the lame kind 

 of foil and fituation they were in the feminary, their downright 

 roots fiiortened, and planted in lines eighteen, inches afunder and 

 eight or nine inches in the line, where, as their roots naturally 

 incline more to run deep than fpread on the furface, and as they 



