244 DireBions for Kaifing Chap. 7. 



has taught a great many Gentlemen who have 

 attempted it. 

 Trees oi^t of And indeed, except it be Afli or Elm, there 

 Woods not ^j-e fg^. Trees taken out of Woods that prof- 

 fmdsex.^ P^r, if they live at all : And the Trees and 

 cepted. Hedge-lines the aforefaid Gentleman in Lin- 

 cohipire has planted, tho' they live to Ad- 

 miration, 1 cann't fay that they fhoot ftrong, 

 orflourilh fo much as could be wiftied ; the 

 Reafon beings that having few Fibres, but 

 only great Roots, they are hard to ftrike at 

 all, but much harder to make any great 

 Proficiency ^ fo that upon all Accounts Trees 

 rais'd in a Nurfery are much to be preferred 

 for Planting ^ but 1 muft always advife the 

 Aiitrees Planting; them at feven or eight Years old, 

 S^^'ot'. before the Topis fo high that it is forced 

 of the Nur- to be cut ofF, liuce this unavoidably Pollards 

 fery ^^/o>'^ them for ever. And indeed, for my own 

 pafi eight part, I am never fond of any Tree that gives 

 rears old. ^0 hopcs of future Profit as well as prefent 

 Beauty: I therefore chufe to plant a young 

 Eiiglifi Elm, rais'd io a Nurfery, fuppofing 

 it not to be above three or four Inches Girth, 

 before thofe that are taken out of the Hedge- 

 Rows of fixteen or eighteen, which one is 

 commonly oblig'd to head to a determinate 

 Height, by which aieans they are pollarded 

 for ever. 

 A Mift.tke Xhe ancient and fome modern Planters 



fienu^a- ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^'^^7 P^^cife in marking 

 bout the and placing the Tree they planted, in the 

 Planting fame Pofition as it was before they took it up : 



