The Hawthorn. 



j« in fact a tree or shrub of very great importance in this 

 country, and the propagation and cultivation of it deserve 

 I^articular attention, which attention, therefore, they shall 

 rer^eive at my hands. 



373. The SEED is, in the first place, a little red thing 

 in the shape of a Medlar, which becomes ripe in the month 

 of October. The seeds should be gathered then, or beaten 

 off the bushes, or the birds soon take them all away. 

 When the seeds are collected, they should be put directly 

 m:o some safe place, mixed with sand rather wet, three 

 b .hels of sand to one bushel of berries, and should be kept 

 treated in exactly the same way as directed for the 

 ting and the keeping of the seed of the Ash, for which 

 paragraph 10/. 



274. When the time arrives for sowing, which will be 

 tiie second month of March after it has been gathered, the 

 seed ought to be sown in precisely the same manner as 

 directed for the Ash, in paragraphs 111, 112, and 113. 

 When the seeds come up, and even before they come up, 

 take particular pains to keep them clear of weeds j and, as 

 li s just been mentioned for the Gum tree, if you weed in 

 dry weather, give a gentle watering on the beds after the 

 weeding has been done, to settle the ground again which 

 has been moved near the roots of the young plants. If the 

 ground be good, and proper care has been taken during 

 the summer, the plant will be six inches high before the 

 p^-i h cf October; but you must treat the plants well, or 

 el.o rhey will not. 



275. In removing the plants into the nursery there will 

 be 1) ) great rufficnlty; for they have good roots, and they 



ve very well 3 but, in this c-'i'e, very great cr.re must 

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