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and not in the least deter them, because many of them are not as yetbecome endenizoned amongst us: But of this I have said enough, andyet cannot but still repeat it.
2. We read that the Peach was at first accounted so tender and delicatea tree, as that it was believed to thrive only in Persia ; and even in the
in the greatest drought twice a week will be sufficient for them, provided it be done in theevenings. This is the only care they will require the first summer, except being keptclean from weeds. If the place where they are sown be tolerably well sheltered, they-"dll stand the winter very well, though it should prove severe; but where the situation isnot well sheltered by plantations, to break the violence of the frosty black, winds, theymust be screened, Otherwise many will be lost. It is the black frosts, attended by highwinds, which destroy these plants; so that where there is not shelter enough to breaktheir edge, the beds should be hooped over, and covered with mats during that severeweather.
The ensuing summer the plants may remain undisturbed, and they will require neitherwatering, nor farther care, except weeding. The spring following, being then two yearsold, they should be set out in the nursery, exactly at two feet square. In taking them outof the seed-bed, some earth should be taken up with the roots. The latter end of March isthe most proper time for this work ; and if the weather should prove dry and cold, as itoften happens, the March winds blowing, the work must be deferred till rainy or cloudyweather; for without these precautions you will find this a difficult plant to remove. Afterthey are planted out into the nursery they may be now and then watered in dry weather,and kept clean from weeds; thus they may stand till they are of a sufficient size to beplanted out for good.
The ground intended for a Cujirefsetum may the preceding year bear a crop of grain, and,the winter before it is planted, should be ploughed with a strong plough, to destroy theweeds, and lay the best soil downwards.
After this, holes should be made all over it at two yards distance. The plants must betaken out of the nursery with as much mould to the roots as pofsible, and carefully plantedin these holes. If the plants are designed for timber, when they get.too close,.they oughtto be proportionably thinned, and should undergo a second thinning as often as they toucheach other, till they arrive at their full size.
With regard to the Small Blue-berried and Cape Cyprefs, the seeds shbuld be sown inpots or boxes. We receive them from abroad - : They are very small, and seldom come upbefore the second spring; so that there will be lefs danger of their being lost if they aresown in pots or boxes, which may be set in the shade in summer, ,and removed into well-sheltered places during the winter. In the spring, the plants will come up ; and after that, .the Blue-berried Cyprefs may have, the same treatment as the young seedlings of ithecommon sort. With respect to the Cape Cyprefs, the plants must be set in pots, to behoused in winter, until they are groyyn to be a yard high. When they , are put out. into <