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themfeives that trouble with fuch as are to be planted. Several 
of the nuts of the Ginkgo, or Maiden-hair tree, were fent me 
from China preferved in wax; but my friend wrote to me, that 
he feared they had been dried by the fire, as Walnuts and Chef- 
nuts are in Spain, to prevenf their vegetating while on their 
voyage ; he propofes, if poffible, to procure fome in a growing 
ftate, as this is a moft elegant and hardy tree, bearing nuts like 
the Piftachia tree, which are in high efleem with the Chinefe 
and Japanefe, and would grow well in the Carolinas and Vir- 
ginia, and probably will be very ufeful to the inhabitants of 
North America. Mr. Gordon, Nurferyman, near Mile-end, 
has propagated this valuable tree in the open air for near 
thefe twenty years pad:; it is at prefent but little known, only 
to the curious in Exoticks, 
Since it is extremely difficult to procure the ripe feeds of 
many valuable plants from the Eaft-Indies, I have recommended 
it to the feveral curious gentlemen refident there, to propagate 
them from cuttings, in pots under bell-glalfes of fix inches di- 
ameter, and feven or eight inches high, taking care to place 
earth round the outfide of the bottom of the glalTes, that no 
air may come to them, but what pafiTes through the earth, and 
to fhade them from the violent heat of the fun * ; the cuttings may 
be about four inches long, and mufi; be taken from the younger 
fhoots of the plant, not the hard woody partf; they mufi: 
be kept moift till the roots are formed. When thefe are well 
footed, they may be placed with their pots in earth, in calks, or 
boxes, defended by wires, as I have formerly direfled. 
* The cuttings are to have but little water till they begin to flioot. 
t If the plant is of a foft and fpongy texture, it may be proper to take off 
the cuttings with a little of the former year’s growth. 
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