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water as tlic feafoii requires ; and in the "autumn, (thougli it 

 may often not be necefTary), I Hiould cKufe to make fure work, 

 by remo^'ing iliem under the prote^lion of a frame, which may 

 be covered in the event of a very rigid winter. 



In tlie beginning of April following, the plants being now two 

 years old, mud be taken out of the boxes, when, from the in- 

 terruption the flraight roots have met with in not running 

 downwards, by carefully undermining them with a trowel, they 

 may generally be raifed with earth adhering to them. This 

 being done without wounding the fmalleft fibre, put them in 

 penny pots filled with rich loofe mould ; plunge the pots into a 

 moderate hot-bed only for fix weeks or two months, till they 

 have puilied out frefli fibres, and are in a briflc growing ftate-. 

 When this is the cafe, harden rhem gradually, and remove the 

 pots to a north border during the remaining part of the fummer. 

 From this time thefe plants will require no more than common 

 culture, and, having flood two years in the pots, may be fliaken 

 out of them with their whole bulks, and either planted where 

 defigned to remain for good, or in the nurfery two or three 

 years more, for future defigns, from whence they will remove 

 with eafe and lafety. 



Though this procefs, to a lazy gardener, may feem trou- 

 blefome, yet it is not very expenfive ; and I am certain I 

 have not dire6led the leaft fuperfluous labour for thefe plants in 

 this country. 



The Cork Tree, in the places of its native growth, is defcri- 

 bed by many travellers to grow in bleak mountainous fituations. 



