88 ON PLANTING 



OPEN the hole five or fix inches length- 

 ways, which may be done by only finking 

 the fpade into the middle of the hole after 

 it is flattened at top, which will be the 

 length of the tap-roots if they have throve 

 well. Lay in the root two or three 

 inches deep, as the ground will permit, 

 at its whole length, horizontally, and 

 then raife up the plant at the neck, in the 

 fame manner as in the planting of trees ; 

 fatten the earth to the plant, keeping its- 

 top upright ; after the plant is fattened, 

 loofcn the top of the ground with the 

 fpade, this prevents it from cracking, and 

 is of great fervice ; for if the top of the 

 ground be left hard, two or three dry days 

 make it open as deep as the roots, and 

 dries them, and fo ruins the whole plan- 

 tation. 



IN light ground, where trees are railed, 

 they will have but very few roots but the 

 tap-root, and that is the realon that it is 

 made fo light to prevent fhort tufty roots : 

 they will be full of fmall fibres, none of 



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