$(2 ON PLANTING 



alfo very advantageous, for it effectually 

 prevents the drought from penetrating in 

 fummer, and the froft from hurting the 

 roots in winter. Two men will plant five 

 or fix hundred in a day with eaie. This fort 

 of planting mould be done in winter when 

 the ground is full of wet ; the bell feafon 

 is after a -deep fnow is gone off with a 

 fudden thaw; and at that time little work 

 can be done in any other grounds, as they 

 will be too wet to plant in. 



THE trees are to be railed and managed 

 in the fame manner in every relpectas the 

 other trees for planting on poor lands, with 

 all the precautions concerning their roots. 

 A man with a fpade makes a nick a little 

 longer than the root of the tree in the 

 grafs or heath, two or three inches deep, 

 as the ground will allow, laying in the 

 roots at the whole length horizontally, 

 prefling the ground clofe with the foot, and 

 with the fpade nicks the ground crofs and 

 crofs all round the plant : this prevents 

 the nick from opening, which, without 



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