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nearly so well. It would be good, just to break the ground 

 all over the beds, in the month of March, with an iron- 

 toothed rake, pushing the rake from you, and not drawing- 

 it to you, and not taking more ground than an inch or two 

 at a time. This would make the plants come up with 

 greater ease, and come up stronger; but you must take 

 care not to suffer the teeth of the rake to descend deep 

 enough to disturb the seeds, the roots from which will all 

 be now in motion, 



526. If the plants be well managed during the summer, 

 they will be about four inches high in the month of October; 

 for they make very little progress the first year. They 

 should then be taken and put into a nursery, in the manner 

 directed for the Ash in paragraphs from 120 to 122 inclusive; 

 but, in this case, much greater care must be taken than 

 is necessary to be taken in the case of the Ash. The plants 

 are a great deal smaller, and therefore require to be put 

 into the nursery by the hand, and in the most careful 

 manner, taking care to make the earth very fine that you 

 put about their roots, and taking care that they stand in 

 the nursery precisely as deep in the ground as they stood 

 in the seed-bed, and by no means any deeper. If the 

 weather be very dry, just after they be put into the nursery, 

 the plants ought to be watered, once at least. 



527. They should stand in the seed-bed two years at the 

 least, and perhaps three, for it is a plant that does not 

 grow very fast at first. While there, no weeds should be 

 sufTered to appear, or at least none should be suffered to 

 get out of their seed leaf. A careful hoeing should be 

 given several times during the summer, but the hoe should 

 be narrow, and great care should be taken not to bruise the 

 stems of the plants ; for, if once bruised, the check given 



