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top of the tree afide; if it does (which 

 feldom will happen if properly planted) 

 the fun will draw it ftraight ; but if the 

 hend was to the fun, and happen not to 

 be upright, the tree would never be 

 frraight. Were it not for that reafon, it 

 would be indifferent how the trees were 

 placed. 



THERE mould be two men employed 

 in planting ; one to open the ground, and 

 the other to put in the tree, as it would be 

 a great lofs of time to lay down the fpade 

 fb often : they mould have a little box 

 or bafltet with a handle, into which they 

 mould put a few trees at a time, with a 

 little mofs over their roots ; this will be 

 very handy, as the man that plants mutt 

 ufe both his hands in planting. This 

 work mould never be performed when the 

 wind is high, nor when the air is frofly. 



THERE is another method of planting 

 peer land that is either in fhort grafs or 

 #iort heath, which is very expeditious, and 



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