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be necessary to plant trees with large 

 stems, it should be })articularly managed 

 that they should not be allowed to grow 

 more than two years together in tlie nur- 

 sery, without being taken up, and the 

 roots trimmed short with a view to cause 

 them to put out fresh ones, and produce 

 fibres, so that whenever the tree is to be 

 removed into the orchard where it is to 

 remain, it may have such roots as will, 

 in some measuie, give it a chance of 

 growing. It is proper at the same time 

 to observe, that the younger a tree can 

 be planted out where it is to remain, the 

 better, for even in the different oper- 

 ations of removing it as above in the 

 nursery, and shortening the roots, there 

 is a great chance that it may receive an 

 injury which may prove fatal to it. 



It is a practice in Worcestershire and 

 Herefordshire, to plant crab trees, or 

 seedling apples, found by chance in 

 hedge-rows and other places, of a large 

 size, and even after they havebeen growing 

 in the same place for ten or twelve years, 

 and the roots have extended to the 



