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(by which time it will be quite consumed, and very mellow) you shall CHAP. IL 

 chop it all into the earth, and mingle it together. Continue this process ^■^V'^r^ 

 for two or three years successively, for till then the substance of the 

 kernel will hardly be spent in the plant, which is of main import ; but 



so should only be covered in the middle of the day : with this management the plants will 

 rise to the height of five or six inches the first summer. The beginning of October, the 

 plants may be shaken out of the pots, and their roots carefully separated, planting them 

 singly in small pots filled with light earth ; then plunge the pots into an old bed of 

 Tanner's bark, under a common frame, observing to shade them from the sun in the 

 middle of the day, and to give them water as they may require : in this bed the pots 

 should remain during the winter, observing to expose the plants to the open air, at all 

 times when the weather is favourable ; but in frosty weather they must be covered, 

 otherwise they will be in danger, if the season prove severe. The spring following, the 

 plants may be removed to a very gentle hot-bed, which will require no other covering 

 but mats. This will enable them to make strong shoots early in the summer, whereby 

 they will be in a better condition to bear the cold of the succeeding winter : in this bed the 

 plants may continue most part of the summer ; for if the pots are taken out and set upon 

 the ground, the smallness of their size will occasion the earth in them to dry so fast, that 

 watering will scarcely preserve the plants alive ; but if they are kept growing all the 

 summer, they will be more than a foot high by the next autumn : it will also be advisable 

 to screen them from the frost during their continuance in pots, by plunging them into the 

 ground in a warm place, and covering them with mats in bad weather. When the plants 

 are grown to be two or three feet high, you may shake them out of the pats, and plant 

 them in the open ground in the places where they are to remain ; but this should be done 

 in April, that they may have time to form good roots before the winter ; and as all the 

 earth about the roots may be thus preserved, there will be no fear of succeeding at this 

 season. 



HAW- THORN. 



As soon as gathered, let the Haws be buried about a foot thick in a dry trench, and to 

 prevent their heating it will be proper to mix some earth with them. Then cover them 

 with earth of a sufficient thickness to keep out the wet. In this situation let them remain 

 two winters and one summer, and early in March sow them in beds properly prepared. 

 In the course of the summer the seeds will come up plentifully. Having stood a yeai- in 

 the seed-bed, let the plants be pricked out in beds of fresh earth early in the spring, at the 

 distance of four inches from each other ; and during the summer they must be kept clean, 

 for the goodness of the Quick depends a great deal upon that operation. After remaining 

 two years in those beds, the plants will be of sufficient size to plant out for hedges. Some 

 persons recommend the Haws to be sown immediately upon being gathered, but that 

 method is attended with many inconveniences. 



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