90 ON PLANTING 



tifed, it may feem very wrong, as dreflmg 

 and curring the roots are the firil: things 

 recommended by all that have given di- 

 rections about planting. But let thofe 

 who have fuch ground to plant, only fol- 

 low the directions given with accuracy, and 

 they will find them anfwer beyond their 

 expectation. 



THE laying the roots horizontally pre- 

 vents the trees from being raifed out of 

 the ground by froft ; and as the roots will, 

 by this method, run juft below the furface, 

 they will have all the advantages it is 

 poffible for them to have in fuch mallow 

 grounds ; and this is the reafon that trees 

 raifed on poor loil are not fit to plant again 

 in the fame fort of foil, as their roots are 

 ihort, and feldom have a tap-root. 



IT would be advifeable to plant fb that 

 the bend at the neck of the tree be always 

 againft the fun ; for if the tap-root be very 

 ftrong, and there being no great depth of 

 earth to make it fall:, it may throw the 



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