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the places where they are newly sown, cause them 

 sometimes to overtake even their untouch'd contem- 

 poraries. 



Something may here be expected about the fittest 

 season for this work of transplanting ; of which 

 having spoken in another l treatise, annext to this, 

 (as well as in divers other places throughout this of 

 Forest-trees) I shall need add little ; after I have 

 recommended the earliest removals, not only of all 

 the sturdy sort in our woods, but even of some less 

 tender trees in our orchards ; pears, apples, vulgar 

 cherries, &c. whilst we favour the delicate and tender 

 murals, and such as are pithy ; as the wall-nut, and 

 some others. But after all, what says the plain 

 wood-man, speaking of oaks, beech, elms, haw-thorns, 

 and even what we call wild and hedge-fruit ? Set 

 them, says he, at All-hallowtide, and command them 

 to prosper ; set them at Candlemass, and intreat them 

 to grow. Nor needs it explanation. 



8. But here some may enquire what distances I 

 would generally assign to transplanted trees ? To 

 this somewhat is said in the ensuing periods, and as 

 occasion offers ; though the promiscuous rising of 

 them in forest-work, wild and natural, is to us, I 

 acknowledge, more pleasing than all the studied 

 accuracy in ranging of them ; unless it be where 

 they conduct and lead us to avenues, and are planted 

 for Vistas (as the Italians term is) in which case, the 

 proportion of the breadth and length of the walks, &c. 

 should govern, as well as the nature of the tree ; 

 with this only note ; that such trees as are rather apt 

 to spread, than mount (as the oak, beech, wall-nut, 

 be dispos'd at wider intervals, than the other, 



1 Pomona. 



