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In order that the berries maybe as equally mix'd with the 

 foil as poflible, it will be neceflary to turn over the heaps once 

 in two months, blending the covering with the berries, and, at 

 every turning, give them a frefli covering in the winter months. 

 For want of this precaution, in not mixing the feeds properly, 

 and divelling them of their pulp, we univerfally fee, that feldom 

 one half of the feeds appear the feafon of fowing them, but con- 

 tinue in the ground, though frefli and found, another year ,; and 

 then, if the former year's plants are not all raifed, which is rare- 

 -ly done, the remainder, by coming up under their fliade, -are ftar- 

 ved, and good for nothing. But I fhall now proceed to fuch a 

 pracftice (having attended to what has been faid) as will obviatje 

 tlaefe unlucky circumflances. 



Th e berries of the Thorn begin to vegetate with the earheil 

 plants, and, in the natural feafon of their growth, will fpring, 

 if kept in any confiderable quantity togethei;, without the af- 

 fiflance of earth ; whence it becomes indifpenfibly neceflary, to be 

 prepared, the firfl: dry weather in February, to fow them. This 

 being come, feparate the berries from the loofe foil in which 

 they were mixed, with a wire fieve, without which it will be im- 

 pofllble to fow them in an equal manner. The ground ought 

 to be of. a good natural quality, dry, and not lately acquainted 

 with dung, which, unrotted, has very malignant efledls on 

 many plants, and on none more than the Thorn ; but good frefli 

 land being well prepared, divide it in beds three and a half feet, 

 broad, with alleys of eighteen inches b£tween them ; pufli over 

 a little of the furface of the beds to the alleys, as is pracflifed for 

 fmall kitchen -garden feeds ; fow them with great care, fo that 

 they, may not rife in clufl:ers, and that the plants, as near .as 



