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or fix feet diftance (for the diftance mould 

 be according to the goodnefs of the ground) 

 and this neglected ever iince planting, we 

 mall find, if the trees have throve anything 

 like, they will all be mere thickets. 



IT will not be proper to remove any 

 trees to plant in another place from fuch 

 a thicket directly, for as they have been 

 long fp very clofe, and have had no free air, 

 :hey will be very unfit to remove, becaufe 

 their ftems will be very tender. 



FIRST, let all the large branches be cut 



off clofe to the bole, and all the other 



parts of the tree be drefled according to 



the directions for pruning : let this be 



ione for two years, and then every other 



'ree may be removed with fafety, and 



flanted again. The pruning of the trees 



left in the old plantation mufl be con- 



tiiued until the trees have got fufficient 



Je.igth of bole. 



THE trees that were removed, if they 

 G 4 were 



