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when cut no fault will be found with 

 their having been pruned. 



Tins method of pruning will aniwer 

 very well for all kinds of foreft- trees but 

 the Elms, which require a different me- 



thv)d to make them fine trees. 



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THE En^lifli Elms are propagated from 

 layers, whici). if properly performed they 

 will have good roots, and be fit to take 

 up a year after they are laid. Every kind 

 of Elm will grow very well by layers. 



THE Englifh Elm is the fineft tree of 

 all the kinds of Elm, and in proper foil 

 grows to a very great fize ; its layers do 

 not take root fo foon as the other kinds. 

 If it was laid in the autumn, as foon as the 

 leaves arc off, it would greatly encourage 

 its rooting, for the young twigs that are 

 to be laid are hard and dry, and by being 

 in the ground all the winter they are 

 foftcned, and take root much better. When 

 V are taken up, they fhould have their 



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