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In this mannerj then, I planted the whole number of 

 my trees J and they fucceeded to a wonder, for but ten 

 failed; and the bark of thefe was, on examination, found 

 to have been iniurcd by an afs, which broke into my 

 ground : However, the next year I had them replaced, 

 and thedifadvantage was not great. 



What is moft remarkable is, that my trees flood well 

 the memorable hard froft, without being, as far as I could 

 find, in the lead injured. 



I well knew, that the only way to defend the roots of 

 my young trees from the damp, raw, under-earth, which 

 had proved fatal to other plantations, was to raife them 

 above it : This I effected, by planting them on the furface 

 of the foil ; and fuch roots as ftruek downwards found a 

 good warm bed in the earth, which had been flirred and 

 mixed with lime : However, as the Elm has naturally a 

 fpreading root, the nourifhment was chiefly extracted 

 from the upper bed of earth, the main roots being cover- 

 ed by only a few inches of mould, and feme ot them, at 

 this time, lie quite bare and prominent above the earth. 



A great deal depends on flaking young trees fo fecurely 

 that they Ihall not be Ihaken by every guft of wind, in 

 fuch a manner as to difplace their roots in the earth ; for 

 by this means the fibres of the roots of fuch ftiaken trees 

 are removed from the furface which (hould afford them 

 jicurifhment ; and either the tree dies, or the mouths of 

 the roots mufl again have time fo to adapt themfelves to 

 the circumjacent particles of earth, as to be in a capa- 

 city of once more extrafiting their nourifliment and food 

 from their common mother. 



I am yours, &c. 



f#^;, AW. 12, 1764. ' X. Z. 



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