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tved, preferve the roots as entire as poflible, and, ^ if 
you. can, a ball of earth to each plant. Then draw the 
lines where the trees are to be planted at three feet 
afunder, and plant the trees at eighteen inches diftance 
in the rows, obferving to clofe the earth well to their 
roots, as alfo to lay a little mulch upon the furface ot 
the ground about their hems; and water them well to 
fettle the earth to their roots, which fiiould be repeat¬ 
ed twice a-week, until the plants have taken trelh root. 
Thefe plants may remain in the nurfery three or tour 
years, according to the progrefs they make, or till your 
ground is re.tdy where they are to be planted : but if 
you intend to let them remain longer, you fliould take 
u.p every other tree in the rows, and tranfplant out; for 
otherwife their roots will be matted together, fo that it 
w ill render it difficult to tranfplant them, as alfo endan¬ 
ger the future growth of the trees. The plants fliould 
by no means be let hand too long in the nurfery before 
they are tranfplanted out for good, becaufe the roots do 
not mat together fo clofely as thole of many other forts 
of evergreen trees, whereby they may be taken up with 
good balls of earth to their roots; but, the roots of the 
cyprefs being apt to extend out in length, it is one of 
the moh difficult trees to remove when grown large ; 
therefore mod curious perfons choofe to put the young 
plants into fmall pots, when they firh take them out of 
the feed-bed, and fo train them up in pots two or three 
years, until they are fit to plant out where they are to 
hand for good, and, by this management, they are fecure 
of all the' plants; for thefe may be fliuken out ol the 
pots at any time of the year without danger, and planted 
with their whole ball of earth, which is likewife a great 
advantage. 
When they are planted out for good, if they are de- 
figned for timber, they Ihould be planted about twelve 
or fourteen feet dihance every way ; and be very careful 
in removing thofe in the full ground, not to ffiake the 
earth from their roots; to prevent which, you fliould 
open the ground about each tree, cutting off all long 
roots, then, working under the ball of earth, cut the 
downright roots oft'; and after having pared off all the 
earth from the upper part of the ball, as alfo reduced 
the bulk of it, fo that its weight may not be too great 
for the fibres to fupport, they may be carried upon a 
hand-barrow by two perfons to the place where they are 
to be planted ; but, if they are to be carried to a dif- 
tant place, they fliould either be put into balkets, or 
their roots clofely matted up. When they are planted, 
you muff fettle the earth clofe to their roots as before, 
laying a little mulch upon the furface of the ground 
about their Hems, to prevent the fun and wind from en¬ 
tering the earth to dry their fibres ; and water them well, 
to fettle the ground to their roots, which muff alfo be 
repeated, if the weather proves dry, until they have 
taken root, after which time they will require little 
more care than to keep them clear from weeds. 
The upright cyprefs, which is the mod common fort 
in England, feldom produces good feeds in this country ; 
it is therefore the belt way to have the cones brought 
over entire from the fouth of France and Italy, where 
they ripen perfectly well, and take the feeds out juft be¬ 
fore you low them, for they will keep much better in 
the cones than if they are taken out. The method to 
get the feeds out is to expofe the cones to a gentle heat, 
which will caufe them to open, and eafily emit their 
feeds. Dr. Hunter recommends the ground in which 
the feeds are to be fown to-be well worked, turned over, 
and mellowed by froft ; and, if the foil be not naturally 
fandy, to work in fome drift fand all over the bed lix 
inches deep. Mr. Boutcher fays, that, if in the begin¬ 
ning of winter fome law-duft is lifted over them, it will 
imuih contribute to their prefervation in cafe of fevere 
weather. But, as it is no uncommon thing for a hard 
winter to deftroy whole beds of thefe plants^ it is necef- 
lary, fays Mr. Boutcher. to provide againft fuch a mis* 
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fortune, by flowing fome feeds in pots; which muft be 
placed in a fhelterdd fituation, fo as to receive the morn¬ 
ing fun till ten or eleven o’clock ; keep them moderately 
watered, and in October remove the pots under a frame. 
The fucceeding flpring ffiake them out of thefe pots, 
and plant them in others of fourteen or fixteen inches 
diameter, each of which will contain from fixteen to 
twenty plants; place them in the fliade till in a free- 
growing Hate, and in winter remove them under a frame. 
Mr. Miller affirms that the fpreading cyprefs is rare 
in England, and that what has palled under this title 
here is only a variety of the common fort, the branches 
of which grow much loofer ; but that the true fpreading 
cyprefs extends its branches horizontally from the firlt 
year, and continues to extend them to a great length as 
the tree advances. He affirms that it is certainly a dif- 
tinft 1'pecies, grows to a much larger fize, and that there 
are fome of conliderable ftature in Italy. 
The Cape cyprefs is too tender to thrive in the open 
air in England when young; but, when the plants have 
obtained more ftrength, it is very probable they may do 
well in warm fituations. Young plants placed under a 
frame which had no glafs, but only wooden (butters, 
were not injured by the cold, though the earth of the 
pots was frequently frozen hard. The practice now is, 
to keep them in pots, and houfe them in winter till they 
are a yard in height. When they are committed to the 
open air, they muft have a dry warm foil, and a vvell- 
lheltered fituation ; nothing, however, can enfure them 
but the dry ftove. The fifth fort may be propagated 
from feeds in the fame manner as the common cyprefs, 
and the plants fliould be treated in the fame manner as 
lias been directed for them, with this difference only, 
that it will be proper to cover thefe plants during the 
two firft winters after they are come up, efpecially if 
the frolt Ihould be fevere, which might deftroy them, 
if they are expofed to it while they are young. This 
fort may alfo be propagated by cuttings, which, if 
planted in autumn, and fereened in winter, will take 
root; but it is generally two years before they will be 
rooted enough to tranfplant, nor will the plants fo raifed 
thrive fo fait as the feedlings ; therefore, when the feeds 
can be obtained, that is the belt method to propagate 
this tree. Sec Thuja. 
CUR,/: [ korre , Dut. or kirten, Teut. to grin.] A 
worthlefs degenerate dog.—Here’s an old drudging cur 
turned off to ftiift for himfelf, for want of the very teeth 
and heels that he had loft in his mailer’s fervice. L'E- 
Jlrange. 
A cur may bear 
The iginie of tiger, lion, or whate’er 
Denotes the nobleft or the faireft beaft. Dryden. 
A term of reproach for a man : 
What would ye have, ye curs, 
That like not peace nor war ? Shakcfpeare. 
CU'RABLE, adj. That admits a remedy ; that may 
be healed: 
A defperate wound muft (kilful hands employ, 
But thine is curable by Philip’s boy. Dry-den . 
CU'RABLENESS,/ Poffibility to be healed. 
CURAoO'A, Curassow, or Querisoa, an illand in 
the Weft Indies, belonging to the Dutch, nine or ten 
leagues north-eaft from Cape Roman, on the continent 
of Terra Firma, thirty miles long, and ten broad. It 
feems as if it were fated, that the ingenuity and patience 
of the Hollanders Ihould every where, both in Europe 
and America, be employed in fighting againft an un¬ 
friendly nature ; for the illand is not only barren, and 
dependent on the rains for its water, but the harbour is 
naturally one of the worit in America: yet the Dutch 
have entirely remedied that defeat; they have upon this 
harbour one of the largeft, and by far the molt elegant 
and cleanly, towns in the Weft Indies. The public build. 
$ F tugs 
