!64 TREATISE 



Chapter XXIX. 

 The arbor VITJE, or, TREE of LIFK 



The Species are: 



1, The common Arbor Vitje. - 



2. The Chinefe Arbor Vit^. 



5. The Arbor VixiE, with ftrip'd leaveso, 



'^J^HE iirfl of thefe may be propagated either by feeds, layers, or 

 cuttings ; but as the feeds lye a year in the ground before 

 they appear, which makes that culture tedious, and as the layers 

 and cuttings make very good plants, that method in general is 

 rather to be chofen. 



If you increafe them by layers, let that operation be perform- 

 ed in the month of March, watering them, more or lefs as the 

 weather requires, during the fpring and fummer months, which, 

 will much affift their rooting abundantly, and by the following 

 fpring they will be fit to take off.. 



If they are to be raifed from cuttings, the culture direcfled for 

 the red and white Virginian Cedars will beA agree with them, 

 and therefore need not to be repeated. 



Th e plants having got fufiicient roots, tranfplant them to a 

 . border fcreen'd from the mid-day fun, in lines two and a half 



