2IO THE CrULTURE 



Hattlfli form ; if they were not originally 

 trained to this form, you may bring them 

 to it when you are going to make ufe.of 

 them, by bending the branches akernately 

 acrofs pretty ftrong flicks placed among 

 the branches on each fide of the tree. And 

 this form will both make the branches lie 

 thicker, and the better enable the worms 

 to fhift from one place to another ; and 

 will alfo give you a fairer view of them : 

 but in bending the branches take care to 

 fecure them fo that none of them may 

 ftart, after the worms are plac'd on them, 

 for this might deftroy m^any of the worms. 

 Thefe trees lliould be planted in the 

 boxes of earth, with all their roots taken 

 up as whole as pofTible, and at leaft on the 

 autumn preceeding the fpring when they 

 are to be ufed i though I think it would 

 be better to tranfplant them m February ^ 

 a;id to let them fland one year in the tubs 

 fe^re you ufed them, and if on tranf* 

 planting you cut off any of the branches, 

 let it be only thofe which flioot flrait 

 forward, and which would not fo eafily 

 bend to the flat form. They fhould fland 

 abroad in the warmefl fituation which you 

 can find, that they may bud the fooner, 



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