You may Plant the Runners, as you do Strawberries, in the mention’d Seasons and Distances, and considering the Numbers of fibrous Roots, already shot forth, it may be allowed the speediest Method. The Seeds ripen about _August_ or _September_, when ripe, they are of brownish Colour; as they are very apt to shed, the Time of ripening must be heedfully regarded; It would be adviseable to cut the Hawm or Herbage, a little time before the Seeds ripen, laying it on a Cloth, or winnowing Sheet in the Sun, when dry, rub the Seeds out with your Hands, and separate them from the Chaff. In _March_ the Ground being prepared, you may sow and harrow, or rake them into the Ground. The Cutting of the young Stems, if planted in _May_, will grow. The Roots when collected, are to be washed very clean, from the Earth that will remain with them, for otherwise, that Dirt when in the Layers, settleth into the Pores of the Hyde or Skin, and causeth Numbers of Spots, and Discolourations. In fair Weather, it not being a succulent Root, they will sufficiently dry if spread on a Floor, or a clean Part of the Field; a little Wet, will in no case damage them. In case of very wet Weather, and continued, they may be Kiln dryed, in the same Manner as Bark. When dryed, they must be bruised or ground, either more or less, according to the Uses design’d, or to the Proportion you require them to spend in. In case they should not be sufficiently washt, when they are pounded, or ground a little, it would be adviseable to sift the Dirt, or Earth, which by this Means is broken, and seperated from them. When thus prepared, you must proceed in the same Manner, and lay away, intirely, with the same Circumstances as with Bark. It hath often been objected, That if this Method should obtain, Planting would be discouraged, and so prejudice the landed Interest. That it is used in the _Canary Islands_ and that though it may be done effectually there, yet the Produce of our Country might have Qualities very different, or not exalted to such a Degree, as to be of a requisite Force. To these, I would answer. That Bark would always bear a Price, in Proportion to the Rate of what is substituted in lieu thereof; It would be far from being rendered useless, but only suffer a Diminution in Value. That Diminution would be more than ballanced by the accelerated Growth, and Worth of the Timber. At present we fall our Woods so young, and at such improper Seasons, on Account of the Bark, that the Timber is neither so good, and little more than fit for Ribberies, and Cabbins; whereas otherwise, was the present Inducement, the great Price of Bark diminished, we should have full, and well grown Timber, cut at a due Season, and proper for Edifices, and Shipping. The Improvement of those Lands that now are unprofitable, or not far from such, would be another Ballance, if not wholly, yet in Part, to the apprehended Injury.