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Set the plant upright ; fill in the trench, as 

 above ; and press the ball downward with 

 the foot, or by a gentle beating. 



At the end of one, or of two years, they 

 will be ready for transplanting ; but this de- 

 pends on circumstances : according to the 

 size of the plant, the quality of the soil, 

 and the nature of the season. A small plant 

 will, generally, have made fibres sufficient 

 to sustain it, at the end of the first year ; 

 whereas a large plant, in a dry season, and 

 growing on poor soil, will not. 



If the plants in question are intended for 

 pollards, it will be necessary to poll them the 

 season previous to removal ; but, in this case, 

 the roots should have been dressed the year 

 preceding, that too much exertion be not 

 requisite. 



But this custom of polling 9 seems rather 

 to border on the barbarous ; nor is there, for 

 insurance of success, the smallest necessity 

 for it. If we may hazard a conjecture, it is 

 more than probable, the first introduction of 

 this practice arose from the too frequently 

 mis-shapen trees, found in open woods, ap- 

 plied to this purpose, and which have nerer 



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