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Chapter XXXIII.. 

 The yew TRE E, 



The Species are ; 



1. The common Yew Tree. 



2. The Yew Tree, with a broader and more fhining leaf.. 



3. The Yew Tree, with flrip'd leaves.. 



THE firft and fecond forts are indifcrimniately propagated 

 together : They may be raifed by fowing their berries in 

 beds three and a half feet broads, with alleys eighteen inches be- 

 tween them, on any fpot of well-prepared frefh ground. If this 

 is done the beginning of winter, as foon as the berries are 

 ripe, having firft diverted them of the pulp in which they are 

 inclofed, fome of them will appear the following fpring ; but 

 as thefe will be much the fmaller part, to have a plentiful and 

 regular crop all appear at the fame time, I rather advife the 

 feeds to be mixed with earth till fpring, and managed in the 

 feed-bed for two years, and three more in the nurfery, as has 

 been diredled for the Holly, 



The Yew may likeways be propagated by cuttings of one or 

 two years growth, planted in a fliady border the beginning of April 

 or end of Auguft ; let them be laid in lines eighteen inches afim- 

 der, covered five inches deep, and watered at planting j rub off the 

 leaves as far as the cuttings are buried, and, in two years, they 



