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growing quality a very fliort time. The common pradlice is to 

 feparate the feeds from the pulp immediately as they come from 

 the tree : But having long been poIfefTed of a parcel of large Ar- 

 butus's, which bore fruit annually, and from which I have rai- 

 fed many plants, I have experience of their culture, and know 

 this is not the beft method ; but advife the whole berry to be 

 preferved entire, and mix'd with dry fand till the feafon of fow- 

 ing, when, by foftly rubbing them between your hands, they 

 will readily feparate from the pulp, and with that and the fand 

 may be fown together. 



About the middle of March, prepare a moderate hot-bed of 

 tanners bark ; and if the quantity you intend to raife is large, 

 lay on fix inches deep of the fined rich loofe mould, and fow the 

 feeds on it, covering them not above the fixth part of an inch 

 deep ; but if your quantity is fmall, you may fow them in pots, 

 and plunge them up to the rim in the tan. In five or fix weeks 

 the plants will begin to appear above ground, when they muft 

 be frequently but very lightly fprinkled with water, from a fmall 

 nvatering-pot with a fine rofe ; for, being then very tender, if 

 the water is carelefsly dallied on them, many will be deftroyed. 

 Let the bed be fiiaded with mats during the heat of the day ; 

 and when the plants have been a month above ground, they may 

 receive the evening dews, and gentle fhowers, more and more as 

 they advance in ftrength, till about the beginning of Augufl, 

 when, having been well managed, the glafies ought to be taken 

 off, that the plants may enjoy all the heavenly influences in mild 

 weather ; but as foon as winter approaches, it will be necefiTary 

 to have the glaifes at hand, to replace in fevere weather, but at- 

 tentively giving them all the open air when otherways. 



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