94. ON PLANTING 



their fmall roots will begin to mould, and 

 muft be cut off before they are planted, or 

 their mouldinefs will deftroy the large 

 roots. If they come packed in mofs, they 

 fhould not be unpacked, but taken out as 

 they are wanted, and planted as foon as 

 poffible. 



IT has been a common practice to fend 

 to the north for feedling-trees, where they 

 are bought at a very cheap rate for plant- 

 ing out in poor land. In general the fuc- 

 cefs has been bad, and there are macjy 

 good reafons for its being fo. 



BY chance there may be tolerably good 

 fuccefs, but it is a very bad practice ; for 

 thele trees are fown asthickas they can grow, 

 fo that they have no free air, and by their 

 clofenefs and their own warmth the/ are 

 drawn up weak, and their flems are very 

 tender, like a plant that is earthed up to 

 blanch. This is eafily to be difcovered by 

 obferving the lower part of the ftem, which 

 is of a languid green for want of air, and 



the 



