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 latter methods are the most certain, whereby to continue the improved varieties diftinct.

.——Let a quantity of the best Nuts of the desired sorts be preserved in sand till February, then sowed imn drills two inches deep, and when the plants are a year or two old, plant them out in nursery lines, training some as full, half, and dwarf standards, with six, four, and two feet stems then top them, and permit them to branch out above, and form heads; some also as hedge plants, branching out near the bottom but fanned up on the sides.

.—The trees send up abundance from the root; which being