THE CULTURE OF PLANTS 



or second year after the seeds rise, if they shoot 

 lustily (draw out the biggest first) transplant them 

 into the nurserie in single rowes, at two foot inter- 

 val, and half a foot in the rowes, for conveniency 

 in hawing, graffing, pruning, &c. and observe to 

 prune the root and side-branches in planting, as I 

 directed with f orrest-trees. Only, when you have 

 got them to a convenient height for graffing, you 

 may cut their tops, to make their bodies swell the 

 sooner ; albeit this be not permitted with f orrest- 

 trees. However,graff and inoculate while the stocks 

 are young, ere they bean inch in diameter, and they 

 will sooner heal the wound. Let them have a year's 

 settlement in the nurserie before you graff ; but you 

 may inoculate that same ensuing summer after 

 planting, especially if they be very free and lustie. 

 Next year after graffing remove them to a wider 

 distance, viz. three foot one way, and a foot the 

 other; prune their roots at every removal, that they 

 may provide for a well-shapen head ; cut them near 

 now while young, if you would have all their 

 branches of an equal greatness, and of order proper, 

 as anon I shall inform you. 



In setting your stocks in the nurserie, I presume 

 you will set every kind by themselves, i.e. pears with 



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