of Orchards y Vineyards^ Sec. 2<?3 



the various Kinds of Fruit-Trees their proper 

 Situations and Pofitions, otherwife the Beauty 

 of your Orchard will leffen the Produd of Fruit, 

 and you may dearly purchafe your Pleafure. 



It is bed to remove Trees very young, pro- 

 vided it can be done with Security, and that 

 they be expeditioufly fet in the Places, afljgn'd 

 them after they are taken up, pruning the 

 gr-eateft Part of the Tops, but not cutting too 

 much of the Root. i\nd when you are to 

 remove Trees of ten or twelve Years old, a 

 circular Trench muftbedigg'd round them the 

 IJovetnber before they are tranfplanted, a£ nar- 

 row as may conveniently ferve 5 but fo deep 

 as to meet with moft of the fpreading Roots, 

 at fuch a Diftance round about the Body of the 

 Tree, as you would cut the Pi.oot off at whea 

 you remove it. As foon as the Trench is made, 

 the Roots are to be cut off clear, and without 

 fplitting or bruifing the Bark^ and then the 

 Trench is to be filTd up again : Thefe great 

 Roots by the OBober following will have put 

 forth maay fibrous Roots, and have made Pre- 

 paration for more ly which, upon Removal, 

 will enable the Tree to draw a greater Quan- 

 tity of Nourifliment than otherwife it would 

 do, by which Means it will profper the bet- 

 ter in its new Situation. And Care rauft be 

 taken in tranfplanting of large Trees, that 

 the fame Side of the Tree be planted to the 

 South Eaft, &c. as formerly flood that Way 5 

 unlefs it be a leaning Tree, when the inclin- 

 ing Side is to be fet tov/ards the South Wefl, 



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