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gentle waterings ifi the morning ; and continue tlils, more or lefs, 

 during the fummer months, as the feafon fhall require, changing 

 the morning to evening's watering as foon as the danger of the 

 frofts are over. 



The fucceedlng fprlng, the ground being good, and the for- 

 mer fummer having been favourable, as foon as their buds be- 

 gin to fwell, remove them from the feminary to the nurfery, and 

 lay them with the fpade in lines two feet afunder and nine or 

 ten inches in the line, the fame depth they formerly flood ; wa- 

 ter them at planting, and if you repeat it three or four times at 

 the diftance of ten or twelve days, the feafon being dry, it will 

 much forward their growth : Let the ground between the rows 

 be pointed over in autumn and fprlng, and cut away any crofs 

 lateral branches during their abode here, which ought to be two 

 years only. If thefe berries have been fown in poor land, the 

 plants of courfe will have made fmall progrefs ; in that event, 

 and that they are not too thick, they may remain in the feed- 

 bed two years. 



To raife them from cuttings, plant them in a fliady border 

 of moift (not wet) earth, in lines two feet afunder. The begin- 

 ning of April, or middle of Auguft, let the cuttings be a foot or 

 fourteen inches long, one half of which fhould be buried in 

 the ground ; let the whole leaves be rub'd off, which other- 

 ways generally wither and hang on great part of that feafon, 

 and from thence taint the plant. Here they may remain till the 

 fecond April following, giving them the fame culture as the 

 feedlings. 



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