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mentioned may fafely be replanted at that time. 

 But your nurfery fhould always be near the fpot 

 you intend to plant, or elfe the roots of your 

 young trees will get dry, and their buds be rubbed 

 off in carriage. 



During the firft three months after planting, 

 they fhould frequently be examined, and the earth 

 made faft about their roots, otherwife they will 

 be loofened by the winds; but after that time 

 they will have put forth new roots fufficient to 

 bold them fecurely. 



The upright Englifli elm, and the wich elm, 

 may alfo be properly introduced in thefe fitu- 

 ations, for they are hardy trees, and, when once 

 rooted, grow well on rocky foils. The timber of 

 the latter is very valuable for naves of carriage 

 wheels, and boring for water-pipes. 



If oaks, chefnuts, or beech, or indeed any other 

 tree that fheds its leaves in winter, grow crooked, 

 make incifions with the point of a knife from top 

 to bottom in the hollow part. This will occafion 

 the tree to increafe in bulk more in thofe parts 

 than in any other; and by this fimple eafy me- 

 thod, I have known many a Crooked tree grow 

 ftrajt and handfome, 



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