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From this practice, all the found feeds will appear at once ; but 

 the plants will not be one fourth-part of the fize, or have near 

 fo good roots as thofe whofe berries have been preferved as di- 

 redled, and fown on frefli loofe foil, where they arc to appear 

 that feafon. From the fmall fize of thefe plants, it v/ill be ne- 

 cefFary they remain in the feed-bed two years. 



Thorns may alfo be propagated to much advantage, and 

 two years time faved, by cuttings from their roots. For this 

 purpofe, at removing a nurfery of thefe plants, cut off all unne- 

 ceffary roots that are ftraight and clean, of one, but not more 

 than two years growth ; let them not exceed the length of four 

 or five inches, and, either early in Oc51;ober, or February, lay them 

 in drills cut out with the fpade, with their tops a quarter of an 

 inch below the furface ; let thefe drills be a foot afunder, and lay 

 the roots in them three or four inches feparate, as not a iingle 

 frefli and found root will fail that has been planted with care and 

 attention. If the land has been well prepared, of a good quali- 

 ty, and kept clean and mellow, the plants will be from eight 

 inches to a foot high the firft feafon ; and the following fpring, 

 having pointed over the ground between the lines, they ought to 

 be cut with hedge fhears, within tvv'o or three inches of the fur- 

 face,, when, by continuing a proper culture during the enfuing 

 fummer months, they will in general be eighteen inches high,^ 

 and moft abundantly rooted at tv^o years old.. 



I AM very far from meaning to divert any one's attention from 

 following the juflly eflabliflied principles of raifmg plants in ge- 

 neral from their feeds,, fully fenfible of its preference to ail other 

 gratftices in moft cafes; but as there are few rules without fome 



