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tall early forts will be two or three 
inches high, others one inch, and the 
later forts juft making their appearance; 
indeed a very few remarkably late forts 
may be a week longer before they appear, 
but not more: if, on examination, any 
diftemper, or canker, is difcernible on 
the foliage, about this time, either above, 
or an inch or two below the furface of 
the foil, it fhould be carefully cut out, 
with a (harp knife, and the wounded part 
left expofed to the fun and air, which 
will prefently heal it : a fine dry day 
fhould be made choice of for the fore¬ 
going operation. 
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If the furface of the bed appears to 
be of too clofe and folid a contexture, 
it fhould be carefully ftirred up, about 
two inches deep, which will admit the 
air more freely, and prove, in all refpe&s, 
very beneficial. 
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