Bjf which would give 4840 plants upon an acre. If these 

 plants were properly treated^ they would, at the second 

 cutting, yield from 20,000 to 40,000 hoops 5 because each 

 rod is always split into two, and therefore makes two hoops. 



297. The plants should not, in this case, be cut down 

 until the second year after planting; because, having so 

 few fibres, and being so difficult to cause to strike, the 

 plants do not get good root till the second year. When cut 

 down, they would go up with a straight stem, and, in ten 

 years, or thereabouts, would make good hoops. No other 

 trees should be planted with the Hickory, because these 

 latter grow so slowly at first, that the others would over- 

 shadow them and keep them in a state of subjection. 



298. Now, as to the manner of propagating the Hickory, 

 it is only by seed 5 and that seed is neither more nor less 

 than a little Walnut, having a shell of different degrees of 

 hardness, in the different varieties of the tree. The form 

 of this Walnut, too, differs with these different varieties. 

 The seed never, I believe, ripened in England; but it is 

 easy to be obtained from America, anywhere to the south 

 of the Province of Maine. These little Walnuts ought to 

 be sown as early in the year as possible ; for, if sown late, 

 many of them will not come up the first year. The manner 

 of sowing is precisely that of the Ash 5 only the nuts, when 

 laid upon the bed, should be patted down heavily with the 

 spade, before they be covered ; so as to fix them firmly in 

 the ground, and to prevent them from being washed out 

 with heavy rains, or disturbed by worms. 



299. As to the preserving of the seeds, they may be tossed 

 into a barrel like so many stones, and kept in any place 

 where they are not absolutely wet. When the plants are 



