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of March. By the Nuts being fown in rows, you will have 

 room to hoe betwixt the rows, and be able to keep them clear 

 of weeds, which you could not ib eafily do if they were fown 

 broadcaft. If it fhould prove a very dry Summer, it will be 

 neeeffary to give them a good watering once or twice a week, 

 till the plants begin to get ftrength. If they be well managed, 

 by the end of October, or in the following Spring, you may 

 tranfplant them into beds, in rows about a foot apart, and 

 at the diftance of four inches in the row, where they may 

 remain for two years longer ; taking care to trim ail the nde- 

 fhoots, leaving only one ftraight item. Thefe beds may have 

 alleys about the fame width as before, with this difference, 

 that the beds fhould be two inches lower than the alleys, 

 which muff, be well trodden, to keep the earth from crumb- 

 ling down into the beds. Fir ft level all your ground, then 

 ftretch the line from one end of the bed to the other, ac- 

 cording to the fize of the ground, and with your fpade cut 

 off the edging in the infide of the bed, throwing the mould 

 towards* the middle of it : then remove the line to the other 

 fide of the bed, which ought to be from four to fix feet wide, 

 and cut the other edge, throwing the mould into the bed as 

 before. When this is done, throw up fome of the mould on 

 the top of the alley, to make it about two inches higher than 

 the bed, and tread the alley well down. Then begin to plant 

 your young trees in rows acrofs the bed, a foot or fifteen 

 inches apart, and about fix inches in the row, digging the 

 ground and planting as you proceed, alio beating up the 

 edges of the alleys with the back of your fpade, to keep the 

 mould from tumbling down into the bed. Proceed thus till 

 you have nniuhed the bed, and fo on till you have planted the 

 whole. If it be dry weather, each bed fhould be watered as 



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