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 water, it will glide more eafily through the parts of the 

 bark, than if you were to water the naked furface, when 

 the earth might be drove off from their roots, even by 

 the fineft rofed watering-pot, which would be very pre- 

 judicial lo diem. 'Jake care alfo, in hot fun-fhine, 



thnt you ere6t a Ihed to proted them from it, other- 

 wife they might be hunied; and be careful that the 

 fhed be at fuch a diftance, as to admit a free paffage 



for the air. About the middle or the end of Aday 



their leaves will be faded ; and about the thirtieth of 

 June, removing the bark with your hand, look for your 

 fmall wooden marks at the extremities of the rows ; 

 which as foon as you have difcovered, fearch for the 

 roots, which you will find as big as fmall peafe, and 

 many as large as a fmall (ballot; having put out one or 

 two fmall fibres at nioft, which mull: not be taken 

 from them ; then lay them upon papers to dry, in 

 a place of the root-room, where they may enjoy the 

 air as fully as poiTible, but not the rays of the fun ; but 

 be fure in the interval between their leaves fading and 

 their roots being lifted, not to water them. If you are 

 ayprehenfive that you have not taken up all the young 

 roots, riddle the earth, and fuch as you find muft be put 

 with the others ; and now that you have the boxes emp- 

 tied, turn tliem on their fides to dry and fweeten. la 

 fix weeks the roots are to be re-planted, firil clearing 

 them of all inouldinefs and decayed fkin, but not to take 

 off any of the outfide covering that is found. My rea- 

 fon for lifting thefe roots fo early, is, that I have always 

 found it dangerous to fufter them to be in an inaflive 

 ilate in the ground, in which they are for fome time af- 

 ter their leaves are dov/n ; in this flate they are apt to 

 rot with the lead damp; the taking them up gives the 

 faireft opportunity of preferving them, by being fpread 

 out to dry. 



The fecond year's procefs differs very little from the 

 former ; fo that you are to prepare your boxes in the 

 fame manner, and with the fame comport, making it as 

 fine as pofliole, that no obftrutlion may be given to their 

 tender fibres, as the leafl obftrufifion in their vegetation 

 makes them rot, which they are apt to do. In fix weeks 



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