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3 4 DireBions for Raifing Chap. • y^ 



Plants; And this is all that- 1 think proper 



to fay as to the Management of Trees after 



the firft Planting out of their Nnrfery-Beds 



and Stools 3 it being a thing of courfe to 



plant Oaks, Afli, 'EAm,&c. all in their dif- 



ferent Quarters, where I hope to find them 



^live, and in a flourifliing Conditio^, when 



I come at Micbaelmoj following to drefs and 



prune them, -i •. 



OOilt 



Sect. X. 



DireBwts for the Priming afid Vrejfwg 

 of Fore ji Trees in the Open Nurjety. 



H 



[Aving thus conduded my Reader rhro* 

 the feveral Parts of managing a Tree 

 from its utmoft Minority till eftablifh'd and 

 fix'd in the Open Nurfery, there remains 

 little more to be faid, but what relates to 

 the; Pruning and Dreffing, conducing to their 

 fo-much-defired End, I mean Planting in the 

 Open Fields, Plantations, &c, 

 Frming of Thofe then that are defign d for Standards, 

 sllofs'^^' ought every Year at Michaelmas^ or in any 

 of the two or three fucceeding Months, to 

 have tlieir'Side-Boughs fo clofe cut off, that 

 they may not fpring out again : And 'tis 3, 

 reafonable Query, whether *twould not be 

 better t6 tub them off ds they break out in 

 the preceding Montte of the Summer, inaf- 

 much as thi& fame Sap might poflibly be em- 

 ployed 



