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of it uppermoft: no foil fuits them better than moors, with a peaty or black mould: the fame cones will ferve for two or three years.

Thefe inftru@ions I copied, Auguft 1795, from the mouth of one of the Duke of Athol’s pencil gardeners, and are the matt perfect that ever were ee and will be found the moft effe@ual for raifing larch nurfery.’ G. D.

To the above[ fhall only add, that in nurferies, where they are reared in’ very large quantities for fale, a very different practice is adopted. In thefe cafes, the cones are always{plit, and the feeds threfhed and winnowed: they are fown in a bed of good garden mould, prepared as if for carrots or onions. The feeds are equally fown in the month of April very thick; for it is found that, on an average, of the beft feeds not more than one in three will germinate, and fometimes a fmaller proportion. They are covered with mould direétly after fowing, as with onions, and {moothed by a light wooden roller drawn along each bed. The plants appear in a month or fix weeks, with the ft top, when they muft be watched,

eed hufk upon the to drive away birds, which would pick them up very faft, if not guarded continually, while they are coming up: afterwards the ey require no other care, ex- cept to pull up the weeds frequently before they get firm roots: if the feafon be dry and hot funfhine, it is a great advantage to fhade

them for fome time from the fun by means of mats> otherwife they

run a rifk of being fometimes wholly killed by it; but in moderate weather, in this climate, they often efcape unhurt, though unpro- tected. In very rich foils fome of them may be planted out when only one year old; but for themoft part they maybe allowed to ftand two years in the feed be d, and then be planted where they are to remain. A plant fiom 6 to g inches high, is what I fhould

deem the beft for fuch foils as have not a tendency to produ

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much Brats.

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