270 THE PRACTICAL PLANTER. 



SECTION I. 



and Ditch; with Top-Dyke, Dead- 

 Hedge, Kc. 



1st. THE AGE AND SIZE OF THE PLANTS 

 is tire first subject for consideration. For 

 insurance of success, in all situations, it is 

 indispensably necessary that they be well 

 rooted, that is, furnished with a multiplicity 

 of healthy fibrils. With this view, the plants 

 should be taken from a seminary of rich 

 mouldy at the end of the first or second year, 

 according to their strength ; and nursed, also 

 in rich earth, for one, or for two seasons at 

 farthest. But in the latter case, they should 

 be moved into fresh rows at the end of the 

 first year. See Chap. III. Sect. II. On the 

 Quick or White Thorn. 



Plants of this age, and thus treated, will 

 outgrow those of greater size in any soil or 

 situation. This, by impartial trials, I have 

 repeatedly proved ; and the cause is obvi- 

 ously, that small plants, even by the same 

 treatment, are raised with better roots in pro*- 



