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in about fix weeks the young plants will appear/ and: 

 mud be kept clean from weeds -, let them remain' 

 two or ' dircc years in the feed-beds, when they^ 

 Ihould be taken up, and the tap-root cut ofF, as' 

 alfo feme of the fpreading branches. There now' 

 fhould be another piece of ground prepared by 

 double digging, wherein to tranfplant the flocks, 

 laid out in beds four feet widej plant them in rowi^ 

 acrofs the beds about one foot diflance between the 

 rows, and eight or ten inches diflance in the rows ; 

 let them fland here three years, when they mufl 

 mufl again be taken up, the roots and tops drefl, 

 and planted in rows about eighteen inches diflance 

 in the rows, and three feet between the rows; but 

 four feet is better, as it will be more room to dig 

 the ground between them, which fhould be done at 

 leafl once a year, and kept clean from weeds, &c. 

 by hoeing. Tranfplanting them twice, and pruning 

 their roots, makes them root better and flronger, 

 and commonly rife with a wig or fibery root. 



They are to fland in this nurfery until of fuffi- 

 cient fize to plant in orchards ; fome may be large 

 enough when ten years old, others not until fourteen 

 or fiftcenj for they may be of very different fizes, 

 although fown and planted at the fame time. Here 

 they are to be carefully trained up flraight, and 



pruned 



