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Chapter XXXIV. 

 The laurel, or CHERRY BAY TREE. 



The Species are : 



1. The common Laurel. 



2. The white-flrip'd Laurel. 



3. The yellow-ftrip'd JLaurel. 



4. The Portugal Laurel. 



THE common Laurel is to be propagated either from feeds 

 or cuttings ; but as thofe from feeds make tlie moft uni- 

 form {lately trees, and fooneft produce their fruit, fo, where they 

 are required of large ilature, I would advife that method which 

 I fhall firft defcribe,: 



In the beginning of winter, foon after the berries are ripe, 

 fow them in a fhady border of well-prepared frefli loofe mould, 

 in beds three and a half feet broad, with alleys of eighteen 

 inche^etween them, and cover them an inch and a half, or-two 

 inches deep. In the beginning of the following March, before their 

 vegetation, rake off as much of their covering as may be done 

 without difturbing the berries, and replace it with frefh earth 

 to the depth of about three quarters of an inch. About th-e 

 middle of April, when the feeds will be in a growing ftate, the 

 weather being dry, and not frofty, refrefh them with frequent 



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