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Chapter XXXI. 

 The cork TREE, 



The Species are : 



1. The broad-leaved Evergreen Cork Tree. 



2. The narrow-leav'd Cork Tree, with fmooth edges, 



'Tn H E beft Englifli v\rriter on this fubjed, has directed thele 

 -a- plants to be propagated in all refpedls like the Evergreen 

 Oak. About London indeed, which, from a variety of concur- 

 ring circumftances,, is a very different climate from any other 

 part of Great-Britain, that pradlice may anfwer; but in the re- 

 mote counties of England, and in Scotland, to my certain expe- 

 rience, it will not fucceed, fo as foon, if ever, to make thriving 

 plants ; for they make very little progrefs the firft fummer, and 

 the following winter generally fpews them out of the ground, or 

 otherways deftroys them : But in the manner I fliall here dire(5l, 

 I have raifed many vigoroiis plants of them. 



Try the quality of your acorns as has been directed for the 

 common Oak, that, from planting no unfound feed, there may be 

 no blanks in the crop. In the beginning of March, prepare a 

 fhallow box, or boxes, according to the number of plants you in- 

 tend to raife ; let the bottom of the boxes be bored with holes 

 half an inch diameter, at four or five inches afunder, and cover- 

 ed with oyfter-iliells or broken tyles ; put five inches deep of 



