SHRUBS AND TREES. I79 



fhrub kinds, of upright gro-vth, may have 

 low llraggling flioots pruned, to promote 

 their advancing more regularly above in full 

 heads. 



They will be proper for final tranfplanting 

 for the ditferent: plantations required, the tree 

 kinds when from three or four, to fix, eie;ht, 

 or ten feet high ; and the fhrubs, v/hen one, 

 two or three, to five or fix feet, according to 

 their nature of growth. 



By fucker - flioots arifing from the root, 

 many forts, both of the tree and ibrub kinds, 

 are propagated, digging them up in Autumn, 

 about Od''ber, November, &c. or in the 

 Spring, with roots to each fuck«r, and plant 

 them in nurfery lines, one to two or three 

 feet afundcr, according to their fize, and 

 managed as mentioned fi)r the feedling plants, 

 till thiy are of a proper growth for final tranf- 

 planting. 



Bv cuttings of the young (hoots of a year 

 old, in Autumn or Spring, numerous forts of 

 trees and {hruhs are alio propagated, b'-^rh of 

 the deciduous and ever-green tribe : chufing 

 the outward fhoots of moderate growth, cut- 

 ting them -off from fix or eight, to .ten, 

 twelve, or fifteen inches Ion;;, accordino;- to 

 the growth of the different forts, and planC 

 them, fome in a Ihady bord'zr, or large quan- 

 tities in any of the open quarters of the nur- 

 fery, inferting them half-way into the gjround, 

 in rows {\k inches to a fooz afunder j or fome 

 of the more curious or tenderer kinds may be 

 planred in large pots, Ceveral in each, giving 



them 



