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Tor this purpofe, being provided with foil of the quality for- 

 merly mentioned, fow them at the fame time in yom' pots, and co- 

 ver them about a quarter of an inch deep ; place them in a fliel- 

 tered fituation, fo as to receive only the morning fun till ten or 

 eleven o'clock ; keep them regularly though moderately watered, 

 and in Odlober remove the pots under a frame, fo as they may 

 be protedled in fevere weather. 



The fucceeding fpring, fhake them out of thefe pots, and 

 plant them in others of fourteen or fixteen inches diameter, each 

 of which will contain from fixteen to twenty plants : Let them 

 be placed in the fliade till in a free growing ftate, in winter re- 

 moved under a frame, and afterwards treated as diredled for the 

 others of the fame age. 



The American Cyprefs is fomewhat tenderer and flower of 

 growth than the fore-mentioned forts, and they continue a year 

 in the ground before they appear ; I would therefore advife all 

 thefe to be fown in pots, and treated the firfl feafon as the other 

 forts : But the fucceeding fpring, when the feeds begin to vege- 

 tate, having cleared the furface of mouldy particles, and replaced 

 that by fifting on frefli earth in proportion, plunge the pots into a 

 moderate hot-bed till June, and afterwards gradually inure them 

 to the open air, placing them fo as to be proteded during the 

 hardfhips of winter. 



Th e following fpring, put fixteen or twenty of thefe in other 

 pots, in the fame manner as the former kinds ; only plunge 

 them again in a hot-bed for about two months, and proted them 

 during the fucceeding v/inter as before. In thefe pots they may 



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