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as the cables are to be under the quarters which 

 bear the earth about the roots : For by this means 

 you may weigh up, and place the whole weighty 

 clod upon a trundle, sledge, or other carriage, to be 

 convey'd and replanted where you please, being let 

 down perpendicularly into the place by the help of 

 the foresaid engine. And by this address you may 

 transplant trees of a wonderful stature, without the 

 least disorder ; and many times without topping, or 

 diminution of the head, which is of great importance, 

 where this is practis'd to supply a defect, or remove 

 a curiosity. 



11. Some advise, that in planting of oaks, Gfc. 

 four or five be suffer'd to stand very near to one 

 another, and then to leave the most prosperous, when 

 they find the rest to disturb his growth ; but I con- 

 ceive it were better to plant them at such distances, 

 as they may least incommode one another : For 

 timber-trees, I would have none nearer than forty 

 foot where they stand closest ; especially of the spread- 

 ing kind. 



12. Lastly, trees of ordinary stature transplanted 

 (being first well water'd) must be sufficiently staked, 

 and bush'd about with thorns, or with something 

 better, to protect them from the concussions of the 

 winds, and from the casual rubbing, and poysonous 

 brutting of cattle and sheep, the oyliness of whose 

 wooll is also very noxious to them ; till being well 

 grown and fixed (which by seven years will be to 

 some competent degree) they shall be able to with- 

 stand all accidental invasions, but the axe ; for I am 

 now come to their pruning and cutting, in which 

 work the seasons are of main importance. 



13. Therefore, if you would propagate trees for 



