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for all the kinds, when lightly covered, which is indispensable to 
their growth, generally carry up the seeds on their tops; and if 
attacked by birds, which are extremely fond of them, the far 
greater number will be destroyed. 
The beds must be kept, completely free from weeds of any 
kind, from the moment the seeds are sown, during the continuance 
of the plants therein; and if you perceive their leaves turn foxy in 
summer, by heat or drought, it will be necessary to give them occa- 
sional shade and water. In the month of June following, sift some 
fine, light, rich earth, over the beds, so as to just come up to the 
foliage without covering it; which, will protect their yet tender 
stems, prevent their being scalded by extraordinary heat, which 
often melts them away, so as to fall flat, whilst the foliage appears 
fresh; and besides, it will help to retain the moisture about their 
roots and fibres. 
The spring following, early in April, or as soon as you perceive 
an inclination in the buds to push, pull up the largest grown plants, 
of such kinds as have arrived at the height of three inches or up- 
wards, but not otherwise, and plant them in drills made with a hoe 
or spade for their reception, eighteen inches or too feet asunder, 
and eight inches plant from plant in the rows; just so deep, as that 
the earth may come up to their foliage; close it well about the roots, 
and water them occasionally till sufficiently taken with the earth 
and growing freely, and if repeated occasionally during the summer 
and early autumn, the better; always giving it about the setting or 
going down of the sun. The spring following, that is, when they 
have two years growth in the seed beds, take them all up out of 
the face, with a spade, without injuring the roots or fibres, and 
plant them as above, without attempting to trim them, but laying 
them in a spreading and horizontal manner in the drills. If the 
ground is good and the season proves favourable, a great number 
of the Larch, in particular, will have grown to a sufficient size, for 
transplanting into nursery-rows, by the ensuing spring. 
When the plants have stood two or three years in those rows, 
they may be planted in others at greater distances, or finally where 
they are intended to remain; observing however, that the fourth or 
fifth year of their growth are the most successful periods for a final 
transplanting; which ought always to be done, in the middle states, 
between the first and fifteenth of April, earlier in the southern, and 
not much later in the eastern states. 
Mthcea Frutex, Laburnum, and Snowy Medlar. 
The Hibiscus sijriacus, or Althaea Frutex, is propagated by sow- 
ing the seeds in March, which grow very freely; all the varieties of 
it, take well by grafting or budding, on one another. 
The Cyiissiis Laburnum, or common Laburnum, grows freely 
by sowing the seed in spring, and covering it as well as the former, 
about half an inch deep. 
The Mesfiiiis canadensis^ or Snowy Medlar, is a beautiful and 
early flowering shrub, rises to a good height, and is a great ornament 
