iSo TREATISE 



Therefore, to prevent the ill confequences arifing from 

 that pradlice, as foon as your berries are gathered, throw them 

 into a tub with water, and rub them between your hands till 

 you have diverted the feeds of their thick glutinous covering, 

 which is foon executed with little trouble. This being done, 

 the good feeds will fink to the bottom, when you muft pour off 

 the water, with all the pulpy fubftance that floats, and fpread 

 the feeds on a cloth in a dry any place, rubbing them between 

 your hands often, and giving them a frefh cloth daily till the 

 feeds are feparated and quite dry. If this is done in autumn 

 or winter, mix the feeds with fand, and keep them from wet till 

 fpring ; but if they have not been gathered till fpring, let them 

 be immediately fown. 



Any time the weather is moft feafonable in March or April, 

 will be a good time for fowing them, which muft be done as re- 

 gularly as pofiible, and much thinner than is ufually pradlifed, 

 on a fpot of well-prepared rich loofe mould, in beds three and a 

 half feet broad, with alleys of eighteen inches between them, 

 covered three quarters of an inch thick ; and as thefe feeds will 

 not vegetate till the fucceeding fpring, let the ground be kept 

 clean, fweet and mellow, till autumn, when the furface of the 

 beds mvift be loofened with a fhort-teeth'd rake, and a little fine 

 frefii mould thrown over them, which may again be raked off in 

 the fpring, before the feeds are in any fenfible motion. 



Th e following year, in the beginning of April, draw out a 

 confiderable number of your Hollies, then one year old, and leave 

 the remainder fo thin as they may receive all the influences of 

 air, fun, and rain j let thefe drawn be planted in a fliady border, 



