The Tulip Tree. 



come up the next spring; but it would be only a part. 

 Therefore, the best way is to sow them in April or May, 

 when you can do it, with very fine earth, and in the coni- 

 pletest manner. 



524. Though the seeds will not come up during the 

 summer, you must be very careful to keep the beds per- 

 fectly free from weeds; for, if weeds were suffered to cover 

 them, they would deprive the seeds of all moisture. The 

 weeds must be taken out as soon as they appear, be- 

 cause, if suffered to grow large, the pulling of them up 

 makes great holes, disturbs the ground to a considerable 

 depth, and, of course, tears up, exposes to the sun and 

 wind, aud destroys the seeds. These directions are very 

 necessary to be given, and to be impressed upon the reader; 

 because we are very much prone to suffer to lie neglected, 

 that portion of our ground which we know will bi'ing us 

 nothing until the next year. This is being, to be sure, very 

 inconsiderate; for the seed is going on under the ground, 

 though it does not appear above it ; and it is just as reason- 

 able to neglect to pay attention to trees in the seed-bed, 

 because they do not as yet produce us timber or fruit. 



525. These trees come up with two oblong seed leaves, 

 not very long, nor very broad, but too singular to be mis- 

 taken for weeds. The weeds will start along with them; 

 and these must be kept out of the bed with the greatest 

 care during the whole of the summer. When the plants 

 are all up, which will be in the month of June, the ground 

 should be stirred between them shallowly by the means of 

 a little hook ; for, having laid unmoved for a whole year, 

 submitting alternately to the beatings of the rain and the , 

 dryings of the sun, it will become very hard ; and, unless 

 it be broken after the plants be up, they will not thrive 



