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Chapter XXXV. 

 The bay TREE. 



The Species are : 



1. The common Bay Tree, with male flowers. 



2. The common fruit-bearing Bay Tree. 



3. The broad-leav'd berry-bearing Bay Tree. 



4. The gold-ftrip'd Bay Tree. 



'T^HERE are feveral other fpecies of the Bay tree, but being 

 tenderer plants, commonly potted and kept in the green- 

 houfe during winter, they are foreign to the delign of this Treatife» 



Th e three firft mentioned forts may either be propagated 

 from feeds or layers, and will make good plants in either way. 

 Their berries are commonly ripe the end of January, or begin- 

 ning of February, when they ought to be gathered and prefer- 

 ved in dry fand till the beginning of March. The weather then 

 being favourable, or as foon after as it becomes fo, prepare a 

 fhady border of rich, loofe, undung'd foil, made fmooth and 

 fine with the rake, and well protected by hedges from the north 

 and eaft winds ; here drop the berries in lines fifteen inches a- 

 funder and about four inches in the line, fifting over them an 

 inch thick of the fineft and richeft mould you have. As foon as 

 you perceive the plants begin to heave up the earth, refrefli them 



