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root is apt to be cut afiinder, perhaps too high. 

 And if thefe kinds, and fome others, be not fair- 

 ly undermined by the fpade, their roots may be 

 torn and injured in the pulling up, to the great 

 detriment of the plants. Refmous trees are lead 

 troublefome in the lifting, as they roo't (hallow, 

 and are generally very fibrous. 



Trees which have been in training feveral years, 

 for the park, the lawn, or for hedge-rows, and 

 which ftand at good diftances, mould 13e lifted in 

 the manner of fruit trees ; that is, by throwing 

 out a trench on one fide, fully to the depth of 

 the roots, and then putting in the fpade on the 

 oppofite fide, fo as to get below all the roots, 

 and then heeling the plants fairly over to one fide. 

 In lifting plants from the nurfery, they mould be 

 fhaken as little as poflible ; the more earth they 

 carry with them to the field, the better will their 

 progrefs be enfured. 



OF PRUNING NURSERY PLANTS BEFORE 

 PLANTING, &C. 



While thefe trees, both young and old, are in 

 the hand, at lead before they be planted, they 

 fhould be pruned. Many people pay no atten- 

 tion to this matter, but put in the plants, of ail 

 kinds and fizes, without touching them with a 

 knife ; which is extremely wrong, and renders 

 many plants very fickly, by allowing too great a 



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