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Sometimes will blow freCn-planted 

 Trees oql of the Pots, if too much 

 expos'd thereto, and thereby greit- 

 Jy injure rheir new Roots. 



Thofe Years in which the Trees 

 are not (hifted, you muft in April 

 obferve to taj^e out as much of the 

 old Earth from the Tops of the 

 Pots as pofiVole, without injuring 

 the Roots of the Trees, and put in 

 frefh Mould to hil up the Pots a- 

 gain. You muft alio wafh and 

 clean their Stems, and their Leaves, 

 as was before dhefted i this will 

 greatly llrengthen their Bloom, 

 and caufe them to fhoot vigorouily 

 the fucceeding Summer. 



If old Orange-trees have been 

 ill manag'd, and their Heads be- 

 come ragged and decay 'd, the bcil 

 Method to reftore them, is, to cut 

 off the greateft Part of their Heads 

 early in March, and draw them out 

 of the Tubs or Pots, and fhake off 

 the Earth from their Roots, cut- 

 ting away all fmall Fibres and 

 mouldy Roots 5 and then foak and 

 clean their Roots, Stems, ^nd 

 Branches, planting them into good 

 Earth, and fetting them into a hot 

 Bed of Tanners- bavk, as was di- 

 re6f ed for fuch Trees as came from 

 abroad, managing them in the lame 

 Manner i by this Means they will 

 produce new Heads, and in two 

 Years time become good Trees a- 

 gain. But if thefe are large Trees, 

 ^nd have grown in Tubs for feve- 

 ral Years, your beft W^y will be, 

 to prepare a Parcel of rough Ba{^ 

 kets (iuch as are us'd tor basket- 

 ing Ever-gveens, when fcnt to a 

 dilbnt Place) j let thefe be fome- 

 what lefs th;ip the Tubs you defign 

 to plant your Trees into, then plant 

 your Trees herein, plunging them 

 iuto the hot Bed : and about the 

 Beginning of July, when your 

 ji-ees liaye good Shoots, yp-^ may 



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remove them into the Tubs, with 

 their Baskets about them, filling 

 the empty Space with the fame 

 good Earth 5 this will preferve 

 your Tubs from rotting in the 

 Bark, and the Trees will do equal- 

 ly as well as if planted into the 

 Tubs at fir ft, provided you are 

 careful in letting in the Baskets 

 not to difturb their Roots ; and 

 alfo, let them remain in the Green- 

 houfe a Fortnight or three Weeks 

 aher planting before you fet them 

 abroad. 



In. the Management of Orange 

 Trees which are in good Health, 

 the chief Care fhould be to fupply 

 'em with Water duly, and not (as 

 is fometimes pra(£i:ic'd) ftarve them 

 in Winter, whereby their Fibres 

 are dried and do become mouldy, 

 to the great Prejudice of" the Treesj 

 nor to give 'cm Water in too great 

 abundance i but rather let their 

 Waterings be frequent, and given 

 in moderate Quantities. You muft 

 alio oblcrve, that the Water has 

 free PafTage to drain oft j for if- it 

 be detain'd in the Tubs or Pots, it 

 will rot the tender Fibres of the 

 Trees. During the V/inter Seafon, 

 they muft have a large Share of 

 Air when the Weather is favour- 

 able i for nothing is more injurious 

 to thefe , Trees, than ftifling of 

 them ; nor fliould they be placed 

 too near each other, in the Green- 

 houfe, but fet them at fuch Dif- 

 tance, that their Branches may be 

 clear of each other, and that the 

 Air may circulate freely round their 

 Heads. In Summer they fliould be 

 placed where the Winds are not 

 violent, and to have the Morning 

 and Evening Sun; for if they are 

 too much expofed to the Mid-day 

 Sun, they will not thrive. The 

 beft Situation for 'em, is, near 

 igme large Plantation of Trees^ 

 which 



