The Sassafras. 



too much experience, to suffer themselves to be directed 

 by books. 



499. One whole year therefore, you must wait for the 

 seed coming up ; that is to say, if you sow it this spring, 

 you must wait till next spring before you can see the plants 

 come above ground ; and sometimes you must wait even 

 another year in addition, soft as the seed is when it goes 

 into the ground. There is doubtless something in the oil, 

 or some other matter that is about it, which requires that 

 length of time, to subdue its powers of preventing vege- 

 tation. 



500. The young plants will attain the height of from five 

 to seven inches the first summer ; and then, early in the 

 month of November, they ought to be removed, with all 

 possible care, into a nursery, the ground of which ought to 

 be very good and made very fine, the manner of removal 

 being the same as that directed for the Ash in paragraphs 

 120, 121 and 122. In this nursery these plants ought to 

 stand two or three years. If they lose their points in the 

 seed-bed, as they are apt to do if there be sharp early frosts, 

 you must cut the point back to the first live bud, and then 

 the tree will shoot up again. They will not make much 

 progress the first year ; for the wood is hard, and the plant 

 of slow growth, while very young; but, when once it gets 

 to be two or three feet high, it pushes on at a fair rate. ] 



501. Having stood in the nursery two or three years, the 

 plants ought to be put in the spot where they are finally 

 to grow. Great care must be taken in the removal 5 but if 

 the work be well done, the plants are sure to grow. When 

 the plants have stood two years, they may safely be cut down 

 if you choose 3 and then, they will send up a shoot of two 



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