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having another plantation in a year's 

 time as good as the firft. Trees thus 

 planted will thrive better, and be ftronger, 

 than thofe raifed in nurferies, and can 

 be taken up with better roots. It will be 

 attended with a little more expence in 

 making the holes in the field, than if the 

 trees had been planted in the nurfery, but 

 the advantage the trees will receive will 

 more than compenfate for the trifling 

 difference in the expence. 



WHEN the trees are taken up to be 

 planted, all the ftrong branches mould be 

 cut off quite clofe to the bole, and all the 

 {"mail ones left at their whole length. The 

 latter end of June, or the beginning of 

 July, the whole plantation mould be 

 looked over with care, and all the young 

 moots that have fprouted, where the 

 branches were cut clofe to the ftem when 

 the tree was planted, muit be pulled off 

 by the hand : they will flip very eafy at 

 that feafon ; but if fuffered to grow much 

 longer, they will be fo hard that the bark 



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