178: SHRUrs AND TREES. - 



Then when the fcedllng trees and (lirubs 

 are of one or two years growth in the feed- 

 beds, they fhould be planted out in the 

 Spring, about February and March, in nur- 

 fery lines, fix to twelve inches diftance, ac- 

 cording to the fize cf the plants; likewife 

 plant fome of the more curious fonts in fmall 

 pots, one in each, in order for moving under 

 occafional flie'.ter in Winter, and ihade in 

 Summer, the firll: year or two, or till ad- 

 van, ed a little in fize and flrength, then 

 tranfplanted into larger pots, or wholly into 

 the full grcund ; and according as the dif- 

 ferent f rts in general, that were planted in 

 clofe nurfery rovys, advance in fize in one, 

 two, or three years grovvth, or pore, thin or 

 tranlplani. them wholly in the Spring at wider 

 diliances, in rows, one, to two, or three 

 feet afunder, according to the fort?, by 

 twelve \o hfieen or eighteen inches in each* 

 row; all which keep clean from weeds by 

 hoeing in Summer, and digging, between 

 the rows in Winter, or Spring. 



According as the tree kinds particularly 

 advance in height^ prune away the lower 

 laie-al or fide Hioots to run them with cleari 

 llems ; but this pruning is more particularly 

 eligible in the deciduous than in many of the 

 evergreen tribe, efpecially all the pine and fir 

 kinds, and ether cone-bearing trees, which 

 fhould be fparingly pruned in their young 

 growth, only cutting oft' any very low ilrag- 

 gling iTioots, permitting the main top (hoots 

 in all forts to afpire in height ; likewife the 



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