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afunder, rubbing ofF all their leaves ; let them have a gcnde wa- 

 tering every evening while the bed continues warm, which may 

 be difcontinued gradually as that warmth decreafes, and cover 

 the glafles with mats during the heat of the day ; when tlic 

 bark has loft its fhrength, and the cuttings have made young 

 fhoots, let them receive all mild gentle fliowers, and the evening 

 dews. About the beginning of Auguft, the glalTes may be taken 

 oflf the frames, and replaced again when the weather begins to 

 be froily, but kept open every mild day. In the beginning 

 of April following, or as foon after as the weather becomes tem- 

 perate, remove both the glafles and frames ; continue frequent 

 and plentiful waterings during the fummer months as the wea- 

 ther may require, and the fucceeding April you will have ftrong 

 well-rooted plants, fit for removal. From this pracStice, I have 

 raifed clean-bodied Bays three feet high in two years, ^^■hich 

 unaflifted nature will not efFc^ in four. _ 



The plants now raifed in thefe three different ways, may all 

 be treated in the fame manner, and removed to the nurfery ; 

 when, having cut away their fuperfluous roots and branches, 

 attentively encouraging the leading flioot, plant them in a well- 

 fheltered quarter of light mould, in lines three and a half feet 

 afunder and eighteen inches in the line : In this nurfery give 

 them all pofllble culture, by digging the-ground in autumn and 

 fpring, and keeping it clean, loofe, and mellow in fummer, fo as 

 to increafe their roots, and prune them annually in April to a 

 pyramidal form. Here let them continue three, but not exceed- 

 ing four years, when they maybe removed to the places wheve 



