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The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . Fk:. 69.—thuya pucata (don, in lambert) = T. GIQANTEA (lluRT.). Leaves magn. two diam. ; cross-section four diam. (Seep. 213.) 9^: Fig. 70.—thuya plicata (ghjantea, hort.). To the left above, young female cones ; to the rightabove, inner surfae>f scale with twoovules ; tothe left below, seed magn. thirty diam. ; to theright, outer surface uf scale, and section throughscale and ovhlea. (See p. 213.). deep and 9 inches apart, and sow the Acorns in this,leaving about 2 inches from nut to nut, cover ialightly, and then tread along the top of the ridge, soas to make the soil firm around the seed. When theplumule pushes above the soil, rooks and field-micewill give a little trouble. The former must be scaredaway, and the latter trapped by methods which arewell known to most gardeners. The young seedlings may be left in the bed tillthey are two years old, when they had better beshitted into the nursery quarters, where thoy mayrest till they aro from 5 to G feet high, requiring onlyto be cultivated between to causo them to makeplenty of fine root-fibres, and so not be injured by theirremoval when finally planted out in park or twice as many or more aro planted in agiven area than aro intended to stand, half being after-wards felled, and called by timber merchants Black-rinds, those furnishing small but useful timber formany purposes. If felled in April or May, the barkma
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