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Or, where any arc to be conveyed to any 

 confiderable diltance, they Ihould be tied in 

 bundles, and the roots ftrawed and matted 

 round, or Tome matted quite to the top. 



In making tree and Ihrub plantationo, it is 

 proper to remark, that in the tree kirvds par- 

 ticaiarly, they are generally the moll fuccefs- 

 ful in the end, when they are finally tranf- 

 planted while in moderately young grov/th, 

 of from three or four, to five, fix, eight or 

 ten feet high, more cfpecially thofe defigned 

 for woods or timber plantations ; though, ia 

 particular cafes, when defirous of having a 

 planiation principally for fiiade, Ihelter, or- 

 nament, blind. Sec. well advanced i i growth 

 as expeditioudy as pofiible, large trees, of 

 from ten to fifteen feet high, or more, may, 

 in many of the deciduous kinds particularly, 

 be removed and planted with all defirable 

 fuccefs ; or even trees of twenty feet, on the 

 fime occafion, will fucceed, if taken up with 

 a large fpread of roots : but trees removed, of 

 that large fize, feldom make equal progrefs, 

 in proportion, as thofe that are iranfplanted 

 in younger growth. 



But the pine and fir kinds do not fucceed 



• well, unlefs they are finally tranfplanted in 



•their young growth, of from three or four to 



fix feet, eipeciallj if required to have theni 



attain a lofty llature, for timber or other oc- 



cafions. 



That, as plantations of trees and Ihrubs 

 confift of forelt or timber plantations in woodg 



and 



