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the top quite of another colour where the 

 air had a free paflage. 



WHEN trees, thus raifed are taken from 

 their clofe warm iituation, and expofed 

 fmgly to all weathers in poor cold ground, 

 or in any ground, many of them will 

 perim, although ever fo carefully planted ; 

 and as all their roots mull be drelTed (as 

 they will be either mouldy or very dry) 

 they have none of the advantages of thofe 

 feedlings raifed according to the directions 

 before given. Thofe ftems are ftifF and 

 ftrong, for as they were not allowed to 

 grow nearer than three or four inches in 

 the feed-bed, the air paffes freely amongft 

 them, and their ftems are as hard as if 

 they had been planted out three or four 

 years, which is of great fervice when they 

 are planted in the fields. 



IT is impoffible that trees raifed in the 



manner here directed can be fold fo cheap 



as thofe that grow fo thick as to be pulled 



up by handfuls from the feed-beds. But 



6 it 



