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down the ftrong (hoots, which will take root, and be fit to 

 transplant in Autumn following. When defigned for ufe, 

 they fhouldbe trained up as ftandards and half ftandards, and 

 they will grow from fix to twelve feet high. In Summer, 

 trim off all the ftraggling and fupernuous fhoots ; fo as that 

 they may make fine handfome heads. 



Barberries may alio be raifed from feed ; but fuckers and 

 layers are beft for preferving the forts diftinct. 



