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which fhould be cut off, and particular care 

 mould be taken to keep them from fun 

 and wind, which would foon dry them, 

 to the great detriment of the plant, for it 

 is from them the tree begins to ftrike 

 roots : as they are very final 1, they are 

 very foon dried by either fun or wind. If 

 it mould happen by any accident they are, 

 cut them off one inch diflant from the 

 tap-root ; but it will be more beneficial to 

 the tree if there is no occafion for any of 

 thefe amputations. 



THE laying the roots at their whole 

 length horizontally prevents the roots 

 from ever attempting to run down into 

 the gravel, which they would, if planted 

 in any other method, and this is the 

 reafon that plantations on gravelly and 

 rocky grounds have hitherto made fo little 

 progref?. 



THIS method of planting on poor land 

 is entirely new, and as it is ib differ ,t 

 from all kinds of planting hitherto 



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