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always Succeeds better throughout all the flages of its ve- 

 getation, than one that has been tranfplanted. The check 

 this fall meets with, and the change of foil, have necef- 

 farily iuch an effect upon it, as not only to retard its 

 growth, but to alter its whole lyffem. 1 he fa6t is, that 

 the Aem being fuJdenly deprived of the nourifliment 

 that keeps it alive, falis into a kind of lethargy, and re- 

 mains in that ftate, till the root has formed fonne new 

 (hoots, to give it a frelli fupply of nourifhment ; and 

 tho' it does not c'ie, yet it is certain that the external 

 parts of it fuffer tuch an alteration by the fun and air, 

 that they never recover, fo as to return to their original 

 ftate. From whence it follows, that it never becomes 

 fo vigorous as before, and that, in the courfe of nature, 

 it cannot lafl: fo long. I go ftill further, and affirm, that 

 whoever vi^ill make trial of the different effefts of each, 

 may perceive, that the fruit produced by trees planted in 

 the firft method will always lofe fomething oi their 

 flavour. This opinion is even fiipported bv the declara- 

 tion of feveral nurfery-men, wlio have often affured me, 

 that the fruit they have fometimes gathered from ftan- 

 dard trees that were defigned to be tranfplanted, was 

 much fuperior in flavour to any they had in their gar- 

 dens ; of this I was once an evidence, and not a little to 

 my furprife. But, not to proceed on this particular, I 

 (hall return to fpcalc of the ftrength and duration of 

 trees: and to confirm my opinion, I fhall make fome 

 obfervations on that head. It has been otten obferved, 

 that a tree raifed from the (lone, and remaining where 

 it was firft planted, throws out its llem and head much 

 farter, and inore regular, than one that has been tranf- 

 planted. It is well known, that an oak removed, ne- 

 ver makes fo fine a tree, as that which is produced fronn 

 the acorn, and remains unremoved. It isoblerved alio, 

 that Cherries, which grow from ftones, Ihoot away in a 

 very different manner from thofe that are tranfplanted. 

 I could reafon from trees to plants in a garden, and 

 mark an infinite number that thrive much better where 

 they wtre firrt: Town, than when tranfplanted; fuch for 

 inftances as Lettuces, I'.ndive, Onions, all kinds of Ar- 

 tichokes, Pulfes, and all forts of roots. This is too evi- 

 dent to be difputed ; i)ut it may be faid, that the confti. 



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